Football
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
Ref!
FA chairman cancelled, Anne Hathaway’s non-PC portrayal, and a dinosaur politician survives cancellation
The games people play
‘This Sporting Life’ should be read by our managerial ruling class who dismiss what they do not understand as “populist” or “right-wing”
Before the Beautiful Game
Kester Aspden reflects on his football memories growing up supporting York City and Burnley FC
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy