Olympics
Too big to fail
It would have been better for Simone Biles if we’d just accepted her defeat
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
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
