Pop Music
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
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
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
