Horseracing
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
October song
Anticipating the jump season
Sack the stewards
Racing should adopt football’s VAR
Racing’s greatest-ever trainer
Stephen Pollard says Aidan O’Brien
is racing’s greatest-ever trainer
Show and tell
Racing must win over the public, not protestors
The final furlong?
Racing may be facing an existential threat
Chasing champions
Potentially winning picks for the Cheltenham Festival
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Ride-sharing
The joys of owning (part of) a racehorse
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Ireland must accept the Cass Review
The Republic is ignoring the disturbing evidence about youth transition
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
