Cricket
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Rotters, rogues and Champagne moments
This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull
Queer as a Chocolate Orange
Dominic Green takes us through the history of the word “Queer”
Channel 4 turn off IT Crowd
Laurence Fox’s woke intervention, Glasgow football honour US liberal and Essex spray a Muslim with champagne
Swap till you drop
Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
The Captain doesn’t want to play
What happened to Boris as a child that he hates cricket so?
Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
A constant search for heroes
Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
