Sports
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Going deep on the river
Make no mistake, the boat race is a blood sport
Payton’s place as an icon
Sweet dreams are made of this
All right on the night
The enchanted world of nocturnal football
Hymns and arias
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
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
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
