England Football Team
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Oh dear, England
The fun of “Dear England” is dampened by therapy speak
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
Missing from the penalty spot
Boris Johnson fails the Mings test
Knees-up
England footballers don’t own the meaning of their pre-match gesture
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be