50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
