Chasing Perfection
Recalling the Australia cricket team who came to Britain 75 years ago and left unbeaten in 34 matches
Playing the long game
James Anderson: the grandfather figure in the England dressing room
First lady of Lords
The first England Cricket World Cup Champions
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Reign stops play
Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
The man tennis failed
Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the Third Reich dissident Wimbledon left behind
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
Don’t tell feminists what our priorities should be
We know the seriousness of the issues that affect us, thank you
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
