Music
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
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
It’s not bullying, it’s criticism
Artists don’t have to be shielded from critics
Delicate decadence
A tantalising selection of songs
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water