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
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Staying in place
How history and heritage enrich our surroundings
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
