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
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?