Sports
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
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
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
