Taylor Swift
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
