Sport
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
The Olympic boxing row isn’t just about sports
Men should be more sensitive towards female concerns about inequalities of strength
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?
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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
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead