The NBA tosses an alley-oop for China’s censors
Meanwhile, South Park offers a full-court press of freedom of expression
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Thursday
Is Peaky Blinders past its peak?
If the cap fits…
Monday
Blondie ambition
Face It by Debbie Harry reviewed
Sunday
The semiotics of Jackass
For all the chaos on Jackass, there were no obvious consequences
Saturday
Louise Linton: why I don’t like being ‘the wife of…’
I married a politician. But my identity is not defined by my husband
Friday
Not in front of the servants
Long live Downton Abbey
Monday
Being mistaken for James Corden motivated my weight loss
This is my story
Sunday
The Oscar goes to Felicity Huffman
The Desperate Housewife is down with a case of the Varsity Blues
Friday
In defense of record players
LPs are not only an important source of pleasure but also edification
Monday
Gays triggered after mass murdering clown outed as homophobe
Oh no, not Pennywise, I used to like him…
Monday
Disney and the imagination recession
Today Hollywood’s undoubted creative power is spent updating and reimagining stories that are decades old
Thursday
Dave Chappelle plumbs new depths of tastelessness in his new Netflix special
I loved every second of it
Tuesday
Renoir and the foolishness of chronological snobbery
The latest irony in the spread of ‘cancel culture’ comes courtesy of The New Yorker
Monday
Lizzo and the politically incorrect obesity epidemic
Obesity isn’t woke. It’s a death sentence
Friday
Tuesday
The Hunt and conservative cancel culture
The wrong kind of bipartisan consensus
Sunday
Titania McGrath’s Edinburgh Fringe show is the most important live event since the Women’s March
Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto at the Edinburgh Fringe reviewed
Friday
The Bermans of America
David Berman used language as an instrument and as a tool, abhorring his father’s use of it as a weapon
Tuesday
When Tom met Groucho
‘He seemed more interested in discussing Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera’
Sunday
I’m a prisoner of Kanye West’s homeless camp
Life inside the rapper’s low-income housing units
