Cheltenham
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Elegy for a lost world
Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer
Best bets for Cheltenham
My racing tips for Cheltenham
October song
Anticipating the jump season
Chasing champions
Potentially winning picks for the Cheltenham Festival
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions