Sport
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
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?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you