This Sporting Life
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Backing horses
Britain should value a homegrown success story
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
NUFC and the Saudis
Foreign governments should not own football clubs
The gang of four
Remembering a classic British race
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
The eyes of the law
The argument over VAR remains unsettled
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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
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
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 chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets