Sound
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted