Sport
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Why Roz Adams won
An employment tribunal has defended tolerance and the place of sex realism in society
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
Medical science is oppressive
Illness and wellness are mere taxonomies of power
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
“Nympho” rides again
Mental housemistresses and banners displaying children in boaters
Ireland’s Future has no future
Despite Irish separatist campaigning, Northern Ireland’s future remains firmly in the UK
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
