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
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
