Sport History
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Moving tribute to a richer time
On one tumultuous day, eleven men in strawberry-jam shirts wore crowns
The most cheerful cup
Marking the 50 anniversary of a legendary FA cup final
First lady of Lords
The first England Cricket World Cup Champions
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
The magic of the games
The Olympics have a weird and wonderful history
Sporting life
This biography on Sir Stanley Rous and sport in the twentieth century is scholarly, balanced and well-written, says Lincoln Allison
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Letters August-September
To paraphrase the Jeremy Corbyn defence, were the Tory Right present but not involved?
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
