Tip? Don’t bet on it
Stephen Pollard: he’s not the man the bookies fear
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Less is Mordaunt
A miserably unsuitable candidate
Ride-sharing
The joys of owning (part of) a racehorse
Odds-on favourites
Picking a list of horses to remember
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Our golden age
Today’s jockeys are the best ever
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
