Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
British lessons for Canadian politics
What can the experiences of the Labour Party teach Pierre Poilievre?
