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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
How should Christian organisations respond to illegal migration?
It is wrong to think that Christianity demands that we open our borders
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned