Football
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
“Women of Steel” won’t bend easily
Female football players should be able to play against other women
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
NUFC and the Saudis
Foreign governments should not own football clubs
The eyes of the law
The argument over VAR remains unsettled
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Taking on the right-on with cold, hard facts
A practical manual for anyone who has no choice but to sit on committees with idealistic intellectuals
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
