Football Clubs
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
