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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again