Wolverhampton wonderer
There is a lesson here for those who prefer to sharpen their knives on the whetstone of grievance
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
Sing it again, Frank
Michael Henderson listens once more to the Great American Songbook, most enriching of entertainments
Middle-class hero
John Lennon’s kicking against the pricks was mere window-dressing
The Steiner of nether edge
Michael Henderson reviews A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher and Here We Are by Graham Swift
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
A constant search for heroes
Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
