Competition
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
Sack the stewards
Racing should adopt football’s VAR
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
