Football
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
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
