Sport
Uncertain times in Labour’s rugby league heartlands
The Labour Party and Rugby League have been central to the lives of working-class people in Batley for over a century. But for how much longer?
The German threat to English exceptionalism
As England prepare to face the “old enemy” at Wembley, its impact on the nation’s mood — and our wider politics — cannot be underestimated
How does a Lions Tour compare to playing in the Rugby World Cup?
Graham Stewart and Boris Starling discuss the forthcoming Lions tour of South Africa
A return to Lord’s
Two years on from the gripping World Cup Final, there are few pops and bangs this year at Lord’s
Big game hunting
Boris Starling looks ahead to the excitement and exhilaration of the upcoming British Lions tour
Spare us the virtue-signalling hypocrisy
Footballers who take the knee are participating not in the fight against racism, but in BLM’s double standards
Cricket’s bible takes the knee
Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
Rotters, rogues and Champagne moments
This book is so colourful and well told that it should interest even those who find the game of Cricket dull
Letter from Washington: In defence of American sport(s)
Would the super league have made football more American? If only.
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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
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions