Pop Music
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
