Football
The German threat to English exceptionalism
As England prepare to face the “old enemy” at Wembley, its impact on the nation’s mood — and our wider politics — cannot be underestimated
Spare us the virtue-signalling hypocrisy
Footballers who take the knee are participating not in the fight against racism, but in BLM’s double standards
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
Letter from Washington: In defence of American sport(s)
Would the super league have made football more American? If only.
Super hypocrites
Spare us the sentimental tosh about working-class sport, tradition and community
Bob Lord: butcher and visionary
Bob Lord, the chairman of Burnley FC from 1955 to 1981, had a shrewd view of how the world worked and where it was heading
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
Short cut to a Mob takeover
Today the multiply-tattooed Balkan war criminal look is popular
D10s is dead
Argentina is as sad as it’s ever been after the death of legendary footballer Diego Maradona
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
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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
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear