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
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
