Pop Culture
Free at last?
How can Britney establish a version of her success without the horrors that became integral to it?
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
Lana chameleon
Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey
The last Everly brother
Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
