Football
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
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
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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
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette