Sport
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The Supreme Court must protect women’s sports
Two landmark cases could change international attitudes towards sex and gender
The future of girls’ and women’s sports is being decided in the US
Two cases being considered by the United States Supreme Court will be pivotal
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,