Country Sports
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
A massive cross-party achievement
The new V&A East Museum has surpassed all expectations
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale