Olympics
The magic of the games
The Olympics have a weird and wonderful history
Breaking the Knee
The story of a man who once held his hand to the Olympic fire
Every sport is male sport
Focussing on Laurel Hubbard hides the scores of men dominating women’s sport
Pandemic Olympiad
The Tokyo games will be an uncomfortable charade
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
The Olympic boxing row isn’t just about sports
Men should be more sensitive towards female concerns about inequalities of strength
Labour could cause irreversible damage in government
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque to rewrite British society
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
All the President’s toadies
American journalism lacks a healthy contempt for the ruling class
Do the right thing
Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
