Football
Rugger’s buggered
The more money has come into rugby, the more dismal the spectacle has become
Messi to Aston Villa?
The joyous anarchy of football transfer gossip
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
The not-so-beautiful game
Paul Lay and Nick Timothy discuss the morality — and immorality — of football
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Are U.S. sports actually superior to ours?
Sport is another thing to confirm the notion of American exceptionalism
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
All right on the night
The enchanted world of nocturnal football
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
No one will believe the Conservatives on immigration
They have broken promises far too many times
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Hand to mouth
Delicacy, of unknown origins, makes us reluctant to pull plums with our thumbs
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
