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?
The gang of four
Remembering a classic British race
Lucky numbers
In football, a number is more than just a number
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
Farage bursts the green bubble
Nigel Farage is right about the unrestrained pursuit of Net Zero
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
