Football
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
