Sport
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
Old-fashioned sexism
The case of Bryony Frost reminds us what women faced before transgender athletes upset sports equality
The ECB fails to deliver
A horrible split is emerging in the English game where one side fears the other is deliberately plotting the destruction of county cricket
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment