Football
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
Southern discomfort
Has rugby league finally given up on London?
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
