Sport
Taurine state of grace
Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás
Association Football: A great game gone to rot
The sport is now characterised by the conditioned reflex of dishonesty, the bleating of the wronged
Take a leaf out of sport’s book
Music has lost its unpredictability, its thrilling fear while sport’s passion shines, says Norman Lebrecht
A catch that feeds the soul
Heaven is the Outer-Hebrides – with the electric jolt of the sea trout on the line
Class matters: why rugby league players don’t receive knighthoods
Despite a mass public campaign, Kevin Sinfield hasn’t received a knighthood this year. It comes as no surprise to rugby league fans
The BBC’s worst mistake
A separate channel dedicated to British sport could have saved the BBC
D10s is dead
Argentina is as sad as it’s ever been after the death of legendary footballer Diego Maradona
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The new Irish hate speech law will do more harm than good
New legislation endangers liberty and will not address political division
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
How to make marriage less taxing
We should let young couples keep more of their own money
