Pop Music
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
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?
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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
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide