Oasis
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
