Sport
Not cricket
Women’s cricket should be for women, and only women
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
Hating The Hundred
Why do cricketing authorities think we’re stupid?
Agony and ecstasy
The simultaneous glory and tragedy of sport
Sack the stewards
Racing should adopt football’s VAR
Just not cricket
The stumping of Bairstow was within the rules. But was it in the spirit of the game?
Out of the Ashes (w/ Nick Timothy)
Will England triumph in 2023?
The art of spin
Spin bowling remains the highest art form in the most beautiful sport
Oars and roars
Watching rowing is thirsty work
In defence of inequalities
Some of them, at least
Most Read
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 Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets