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
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
