Pop
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
Perfect, plastic, pop princesses
The performance art of selling sterile sex
Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
