JD Vance
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
