Football
A game in the life
A night at the Emirates, Arsenal playing Leeds
What killed English football fandom?
Fans are being priced out and domesticated
Goodbye to Goodison
The staccato clatter of wooden seats: a thundering drumbeat that vibrates direct to the heart
Forlorn Hoop dreams
The club needs consistency, not the constant psychodrama of play-off hopes followed by relegation fears
Kill the football bill
Starmer hasn’t grasped that over-regulation is inimical to economic growth
The real king of Leicester
What could such a storied player want with a middling Midlands club?
Oh dear, England
The fun of “Dear England” is dampened by therapy speak
VAR is a blight on the Premier League
A blight on the Premier League
Rolling the dice
If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?
The FA’s passion-killer
FA rules this season protect poor over-stretched bigger clubs with huge squads and budgets
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts