Pop Culture
Weighing up the real value of art
Why galleries are now cogs in a not-so-creative industry
Unicorn Frappuccino Instagram Barbie
The meaninglessness of Ariana Grande
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change