Joe Root
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Two flawed teams. One unforgettable series.
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd