Ashes
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
Russian Orthodoxy on trial
Symphonia or caesaropapism?
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
The flawed science of trans inclusion in women’s sport
Advocates are embracing unreliable studies to justify unfair competition
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Trojan charities
Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist James Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
Studio: The “Fallas” of Valencia
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book