Rock
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
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
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Ballots or bullets in New Caledonia
Democracy is at stake as violence scars the French territory
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Miserable managerialism at Magdalen
Gimmicky stakeholder management is failing the spirit of the university
Critic election day special — William Clouston
We look at one of the election’s untold stories — the emergence of a revived SDP
