Elephant and Castle
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late