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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
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
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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
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
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
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop