Football
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
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
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Irreversible damage
Trans “healthcare” has been utterly discredited, but activists are undeterred by the evidence
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
