No-crime hate
Investigation of so-called “hate incidents” has been revealed as a colossal waste of police time
The man in the dug-out
If you fail, you’re sacked; if you succeed, you get poached
Forlorn Hoop dreams
The club needs consistency, not the constant psychodrama of play-off hopes followed by relegation fears
Kill the football bill
Starmer hasn’t grasped that over-regulation is inimical to economic growth
VAR is a blight on the Premier League
A blight on the Premier League
Rolling the dice
If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Bridget Phillipson: culture warrior
The Labour party seems determined to end the culture war — by winning it
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich