Pop Music
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?
Banned played on
The hit on Roisin Murphy’s ‘Hit Parade’
Against pop culture populism
The phoney courage of disdaining classical music
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
Every argument for Israel
Answering the case against Israel point-by-point
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
