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
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
