Rob Young
Television tome that needs tuning
The Magic Box is Rob Young’s impassioned, occasionally impenetrable, psycho-history of the TV of his youth
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power