Sport
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Payton’s place as an icon
Sweet dreams are made of this
Bowling Warney
The King of Spin proved himself a custodian of the game long ago, on a summer’s day in Croydon
Hymns and arias
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Can Channel 4 shake-up Super League?
The relationship between rugby league and television has never been easy. Now it’s Channel 4s turn to shake things up
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
