Danny Invincible
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt