5 May 2026 - 1:01am

North West’s stolen childhood She is the voice of an overexposed generation

Poppy Sowerby

17.04

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

31.03

Farewell to England’s showmen Society has lost its appetite for fun

Wessie du Toit

27.02

Tracey Emin: the last of her kind She left the YBAs in the dust

Ben Lewis

23.02

Why myths can save humanity Old stories fill our lives with dignity

Martin Shaw

16.02

Who killed the English eccentric? Our Americanised culture can’t tolerate oddness

Jack Burke

06.02

How Milan sold its soul Old elites are no match for new money

Andrea Valentino

26.12

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

01.12

Tom Stoppard’s anti-political art He was an unashamedly bourgeois playwright

John Maier

19.11

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body She represents an ideal of adulthood

Sarah Ditum

29.10

Bugonia captures American paranoia The film reflects an irrational new world

Frederick Kaufman

22.10

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters Cinema doesn’t need to be serious

Poppy Sowerby