Pop Culture
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
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
Swift reprise
Swift’s latest project is even more interesting than the imaginary motherhood album she pinned her hopes on
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Solo Lockdown
Why social isolation hits singletons the hardest
Most Read
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
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking