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
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
Hymns and arias
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership