Football
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
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
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
