Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxY3CzN2Kkc As Mike Tyson once put it, with char­ac­ter­is­tic straight­for­ward­ness, “Every­body has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Back in the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8 Welsh croon­er Tom Jones made an unlike­ly come­back in the late 80s, cov­er­ing Prince’s “Kiss” with Art of Noise. Then in the mid-90s,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZMhhquL8c If you hap­pen to go to the Lou­vre to have a look at Leonar­do da Vin­ci’s Mona Lisa, you’ll find that you can’t...

by Paul Lindley 28th April 2025 During the 2024 general election, I outlined (here) how the new government could prioritise children’s wellbeing in its first 10...

I will never forget the first time I heard OneRepublic’s hit song “Counting Stars.” I was 15 years old. My taste in music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1fiOJDXA-E Com­bin­ing pop music with opera was always the height of pre­ten­sion. But where would we be with­out the pre­ten­tious? As Bri­an Eno observed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8dcnh-4I6g Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling­wa­ter is a “house muse­um,” first designed as a res­i­dence, and now open to the pub­lic. In fact, as the...

In the 1992 novel The Queen and I, Sue Townsend imagines a future where the monarchy is abolished and the royals are forced...