Football
Before the Beautiful Game
Kester Aspden reflects on his football memories growing up supporting York City and Burnley FC
Jobsworths home and away
The referee is a blessed form of jobsworth
Triumph of the horrible game
Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
