Rock
Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
Pain and glory
Roger Waters’ last stand in Madrid
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Bedtime reading for boomers
You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
