British Sport
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
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
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
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
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre