Football
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
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Badmissions procedures
Putting decisions in the hands of non-specialist administrators fails students and universities
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Beware of the K-Hype
The strange state of the States
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
