Rock and Roll
The year the music died
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
