Columns
Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
Drawing the line on hatred
Do proposed new hate crime laws balance free speech with protecting minorities?
How to disagree well
Reasoned debate is very difficult if you refuse to engage in good faith
Mike Lear: Lubricious lensman
If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
Dilyn the dog levels up
Bozzo is trying to fix the country
A gap-toothed city
The campaign to put up a statue to Bristol’s greatest benefactor wasn’t about Colston, it was about Bristol
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
Who judges the judges?
We are living in an age of Puritan orthodoxy
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane