Shane Warne
The art of spin
Spin bowling remains the highest art form in the most beautiful sport
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Bowling Warney
The King of Spin proved himself a custodian of the game long ago, on a summer’s day in Croydon
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall