Sport
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
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
The new cricket mindset
How England found their mojo
A big day for women’s rugby
Fairness and safety should be upheld
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
Liverpool, lies and France’s shame
The Stade de France fiasco bodes ill for forthcoming international sports events
Bull market
José Tomás is a titan of the bullring, but does he live up to his reputation?
Our golden age
Today’s jockeys are the best ever
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead