Sport
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
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
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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
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured