Culture

Whips and Chains

A year at the heart of the Fifty Shades of Grey storm.

The Female Gays

The puking, leaking, egg-wielding glories of Sapphic cinema.

Chants Would Be a Fine Thing

Why do football fans sing such a strange array of songs?

Curtain Call

An interview with the legendary critic, Michael Billington, who has been reviewing plays since 1971, and is deeply concerned at the state of the British theatre.

Signs Taken for Londres

A writer has moved to London – and is still trying to process it.

Sorted for Cheese and Dips

How ‘lifestyle festivals’ are taking over the British summer schedule.

Tyson’s Fury

Living with a heavy weight, Mike Tyson struggles to find his feet in the real world.

Burning up in Orbit

Waxing lyrical on candles.

Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

Why are T.S Eliot’s letters so deathly dull? We asked an expert to ask other Eliot experts about OId Possum's epistolary style.

Put Money in thy Purse

Meeting the English activists who refuse to go cashless, and plot the return of proper currency, just like it used to be.