Rugby
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
Rugby’s mismatches
Should the World Cup be smaller?
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
The people’s captain
What our politics can learn from Kevin Sinfield
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
Can we save rugby?
Will rugby recover from financial and physical injuries?
Rugger’s buggered
The more money has come into rugby, the more dismal the spectacle has become
Does rugby league have a gambling problem?
As Betfred takes control of rugby league sponsorship, has the sport backed the right horse?
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
