Pop Culture
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
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
