Pop Culture
Howard Stern cancelled himself
The radio giant gave up on entertaining his audience
Britain must escape the clutches of cringe
We have nothing to lose but our Paddington toys
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The triumph of Twee Britannia
We must resist the siren songs of Bake Off and Boaty McBoatface
The past speaks for itself
The problem with modern period drama
Risky liasons
From Syria to Spain
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent