Pop Music
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
Bach in town
We need more classical music in public spaces
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
