Sport History
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
Rite of spring
The first day of the season at Lord’s isn’t really about cricket
Goodbye to Goodison
The staccato clatter of wooden seats: a thundering drumbeat that vibrates direct to the heart
The real king of Leicester
What could such a storied player want with a middling Midlands club?
Glorious half-century
When it’s good it’s very good indeed
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
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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
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?