Sport
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks