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
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
