Cricket
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
Bowling Warney
The King of Spin proved himself a custodian of the game long ago, on a summer’s day in Croydon
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
Hopes turn to Ashes
At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
How to win at Chopin
Giving marks to people playing Chopin is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics
