Paul McCartney
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
Let It Be: Have we passed the golden era of the rock ‘n’ roll memoir?
There is an inexhaustible public appetite for learning about the private lives of our idols, but they don’t make rock stars like they used to
Days in the life of the Fab Four
Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
The oldest rockers in town
The original generation of rock ‘n’ rollers remain more interesting than modern stars
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
