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The Sport of Kings
The Grand National and the culture of horseracing in art and literature
Uncovering the GRU
The GRU, Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence service, is a remarkable failure of counterintelligence and politics from the West, says James Snell
Dom’s People
Tinker Tailor Soldier Twat
Is it time to get our thinking caps on?
Rev Steve Morris explains how we can repurpose the smoking cap away from the dandies and back to functional wear
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Vaccination narratives
The evolution of vaccine rollouts and the reliance on mass-media, advertising and celebrity cameos
Is it time for the honours system to go?
From the questionable calibre of candidates to clandestine cancellations, Michael Collins queries the future of this (not so) honourable tradition
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 4 and 6 (LSO Live)
Italian-born and London-bred Antonio Pappano lets the gentle rhythms of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s music say it all
Letter from Washington: Biden ends America’s longest war
Oliver Wiseman on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this week
Vaccine passports can’t be allowed for church
The government seems to think church buildings can be lumped in with pubs and cinemas
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
