Cricket
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
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
Bursting the Bazbubble
A familiar Ashes tale: moments of brilliance undone by muddle, bravado and a tour that will be remembered more for what might have been than what was.
Ciao to la Scala of football
A cricket club founded by an expatriate lacemaker evolved into one of the wealthiest football sides in the world
Bazball and the perils of “year zero” thinking
In cricket, as in politics, it is always wrong to dismiss past experience
In praise of plucky Brits
Remembering Robin Smith and an old valiant breed of British sportspeople
Dreams turning to ashes
What’s the point of watching sport if not to harbour fantasies?
England’s glory
On his return to Yorkshire, Len Hutton was dubbed a knight of the realm
Farewell to a cricket legend
Harold “Dickie” Bird lived with infectious enthusiasm
I didn’t like cricket; now I love it
Making up for lost time
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game