Sport
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
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
Football and the golden fleece
Football should consult its conscience before it jumps on the NFT bandwagon
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
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet