This Sporting Life
Could do better
Football fans remember the rubbish as much as the football
Reign stops play
Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
The new cricket mindset
How England found their mojo
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
He’s not the son of God
Cricket fans are the ultimate non-conformists
The man tennis failed
Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the Third Reich dissident Wimbledon left behind
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
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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
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain