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?
Pipe down and play up
We need more silence in sport
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
