The Beatles
The oldest rockers in town
The original generation of rock ‘n’ rollers remain more interesting than modern stars
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
The myth of Abbey Road
Abbey Road is less a cornerstone of the Beatles’ legend than its tombstone
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
