Noughties
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Boho Ohno
Boho’s back, baby, meaning droopy, limp and dismal is the name of the game
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
