Simone Biles
Top ten sporting moments of 2021
Three months after taking her A-levels, Raducanu won a Grand Slam tournament without dropping a set
Too big to fail
It would have been better for Simone Biles if we’d just accepted her defeat
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
