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Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Justice over the internet
Civil cases could soon be resolved quickly and cheaply through online “portals”
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave