Judy Garland
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions