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Racing’s greatest-ever trainer
Stephen Pollard says Aidan O’Brien
is racing’s greatest-ever trainer
Hanging out the white flag
It feels cooler, even where it isn’t
Film novelisations
On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography
Man in the middle
Football needs more respect for referees
The strongman we know
The alternative to Erdogan could be worse
King of the Italians
Why Berlusconi was loved in spite of everything
The Windsor Framework is failing
A new Centre for Brexit paper is worth taking seriously
Can Sunak turn the polls around?
It might be prudent for the Conservatives to plan for defeat but it is difficult to do
Hancock of a thousand faces
Not another Matt Hancock reinvention
The rail war
From Belarus to Belgium WWI was a war enabled by the steam train
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing