The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism