Music Festival
A tale of two Glastos
With ho-hum bands, faux-eco fans and sky-high prices, Glastonbury Festival has strayed far from its countercultural roots
Deep England
Glastonbury isn’t just for leftists
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
