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?
December/January: Letters to the Editor
There needs to be a more balanced assessment of the Israel-Palestine conflict
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Hit the road, Jack
It’s time for Villa fans to let Grealish go
The final Buenos Aires diary
In his tenth diary entry, Dominic Hilton worries that the Argentine capital could become another Miami or Dubai if it were to get its act together
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
Obsessed by fantasy football
To enter a Fantasy Football season is to be as one with Donald Rumsfeld prior to the Iraq War, but with less insight
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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
Police policies must be reformed
If we are to have policing “without fear or favour” then it is time for change
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy