These are personal choices from the culture that I consumed in 2020. If you choose to take them as recommendations, well, don't blame me.

What critics, and Britain, still get wrong about the greatest show on Earth

And why those involved don't think it could happen now

New film I Am Not Your Negro is a powerful memorial to a great thinker

Clive James takes on the box set - the first true 21st-century artform

For Frank Turner, the late Leonard Cohen was a prophet, a poet, and a perfect songwriter

Inside the empathy machine

Leo is a once in a lifetime crush for a generation of women

Game of Thrones academic goes medieval on Bowie