Columns

Playing the ball

The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity

Equal opportunities fleecing

This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long

Go west

Rishi has been a bit down lately

Cricket’s triple threat

Some have the granddaddy knack

The court of hot air

We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law

A sound of Rowling thunder

Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock

What makes a gentleman tick?

Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches

Shock of the new

There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick

Why the goal glut?

Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting

A decade of economic disaster

Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure