Sport Coverage
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Boxing clever
Racing has far better TV pundits than football
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
