Chariots of Fire
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)