Pop Music
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush
The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken
David Bowie was a political shapeshifter
The pop enigma veered between the far right and the right on
The very curious case of Ethel Cain
A male idea of what it means to be female
The delicate art of sampling
Every reference you pick up on opens a new horizon
Bob Vylan are a product of the establishment
The controversial duo are more tedious than frightening
Lady Gaga’s new album is a blast
Until now, she’s never been as much fun as she was in the noughties
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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
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie