Sport
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Follow the ball
The British needs to embrace football
Can we save rugby?
Will rugby recover from financial and physical injuries?
Wheel of fortune
Are the fine margins that win championships and make careers all down to luck?
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
They also serve
The unsung heroes that underpin sport both professional and amateur
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Reign stops play
Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Return to SENDer
Labour has created a real chance to reform SEND, writes Zachary Marsh — but will it take it?
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with