Rugby
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Georgia on my mind
Georgia is growing in crediblitiy as a rugby power
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
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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
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war