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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names