Sport
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
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Top Guns of the track
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton might not exactly hate each other, but their relationship is formal verging on chilly
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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 old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor