Sam Larner
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Gentrification? Better than deprivation
Elephant and Castle has been radically spruced up, but not everyone is happy about it
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
We’re all living in America
For all the talk of “BRICS” and “multipolarity”, America is still number one
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
What Louis Theroux ignores
Pea-brained influencers make for an easier target than Islamic misogyny