Premier League
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Hardy Perennial
James Milner will break Gareth Barry’s record, and no one better deserving
The real king of Leicester
What could such a storied player want with a middling Midlands club?
VAR is a blight on the Premier League
A blight on the Premier League
Rolling the dice
If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad