This Sporting Life
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
Can we save rugby?
Will rugby recover from financial and physical injuries?
How to manage up with Emery
How Unai Emery will turn Villa’s chances around
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
Wheel of fortune
Are the fine margins that win championships and make careers all down to luck?
They also serve
The unsung heroes that underpin sport both professional and amateur
A cupful of cash
Qatar 2022: tournament of shame
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Simply the best
It is not just trophies and success that mark out Federer, but grace, personality and charm
Man of the match
Christian Erikson: resurrection man
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine