Joey Barton
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month