Pop Music
Raging irritants
Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway
Tunes of glory
How do you love a song you disagree with?
TikTok goes the clock
It took me a while but now I really appreciate Amy Winehouse
Loved Bond, hated Billie
A good Bond song should include swooning strings, stabbing horns and a chorus the size of the moon, explains Sarah Ditum
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
Heaven Knows He’s Miserable Now
The never-ending rise and fall of Morrissey
Don’t tell us the truth!
Richard Waghorne says the Blitz spirit means suppressing information about Corona
The politics of the Pet Shop Boys
How the electronic dance duo made more than a minimal contribution to music
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
