Emma Raducanu
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Top ten sporting moments of 2021
Three months after taking her A-levels, Raducanu won a Grand Slam tournament without dropping a set
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
