Sport
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?
A working class hero?
Luke Littler should be allowed to be himself and not a culture war lightning rod
Backing horses
Britain should value a homegrown success story
Team players
Why are some athletes better in teams than on their own?
Sport’s spoilsports
Sport should keep video officiating to a minimum
When sex matters more than gender identity
Research proves that outcomes can be very different
Do women-only sports categories matter if you’re rubbish?
You don’t have to excel at something for it to be important to your identity
Women’s cycling should be for women
Don’t follow the pack on “inclusivity” in sports
Ubuntu and the path to progress
South Africa cannot continue down the road towards conflict
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
