British Sport
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Welcome to Hawk Tuah World
Population: all of us
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
