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
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
Plain English by committee
The effect of the Woolf reforms was to replace one set of legal jargon with another
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
