Artillery Row
A good week for girls and women
Women should never have been excluded to make space for men
A grim parody of remembrance
The proposed “National Day for Victims and Survivors of Terrorism” is disingenuous and disrespectful
Bazball and the perils of “year zero” thinking
In cricket, as in politics, it is always wrong to dismiss past experience
Our economic problems are bigger than we think
The failings of Rachel Reeves are only a small aspect of our economic dysfunction
Full Budget Truther
Badenoch fails to checkmate
The OBR is worse than useless
The Office for Budget Responsibility is doing an impossible job very badly
In praise of plucky Brits
Remembering Robin Smith and an old valiant breed of British sportspeople
Politicians are football’s fair-weather friends
In general, they seem to love the game only when it is politically convenient
The rising threat of digital exclusion
Old and vulnerable people are at risk of dangerous marginalisation
How comfortable is wafer thin?
… and how cunning is the Treasury?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people