Sport
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
They also serve
The unsung heroes that underpin sport both professional and amateur
Hold the back page
Football was once a spectacle. The grotesque Qatar World Cup reminds us of all it has become
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
Reign stops play
Cricketers stumped by Royal deaths and wet weather
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
The new cricket mindset
How England found their mojo
A big day for women’s rugby
Fairness and safety should be upheld
A flash of genius
When done well, swing bowling is arguably the most beautiful of cricket skills
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
