Rock Music
Arty types: Gary Lomax
Since the band broke up, Gary’s second career has proceeded in fits and starts
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Symphony’s Indian summer
Imagine hearing a symphony for the first time
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner