Referees
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Israel’s forever war
Netanyahu risks dragging his country and his allies into an open-ended regional conflict
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
