Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Traffic hazards
Driving in the uncanncy valley, Dartmoor’s cagoule warriors and the wizarding weirdness of the Rowling fandom
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
When will bishops be held to account?
If you challenge the progressive establishment, prepare to be abandoned by the hierarchy of the Church of England
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
