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
Agony and ecstasy
The simultaneous glory and tragedy of sport
Man in the middle
Football needs more respect for referees
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership