First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
The Alpine express
There’s much to love in the Winter Olympics
Hardy Perennial
James Milner will break Gareth Barry’s record, and no one better deserving
On Eddy’s goat tails
If anyone can outshine Merckx, Tadej can
A game in the life
A night at the Emirates, Arsenal playing Leeds
The boat that sang
For one shining moment, they’re kings of the world
Duel in the pool
An eighth gold in Sydney isn’t just an American hope: it’s their turf, their birthright
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all