Joe Root
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The new cricket mindset
How England found their mojo
Hopes turn to Ashes
At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
A Royal good time
Racing brings the country together in a convulsion of delirious democracy
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
