Sport
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
Old-fashioned sexism
The case of Bryony Frost reminds us what women faced before transgender athletes upset sports equality
The ECB fails to deliver
A horrible split is emerging in the English game where one side fears the other is deliberately plotting the destruction of county cricket
History, fans, noise and passion
Football fans know a Proper Club when they see one
Top Guns of the track
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton might not exactly hate each other, but their relationship is formal verging on chilly
The best there is
Frankie Dettori’s unmatched skill, underestimated bravery and unprecedented love for the horses
Robert the Lionheart
Rob Burrow approaches MND like he did Rugby League: with bravery and without fear
A step change in sports policy
The UK Sports Councils’ new guidance on trans inclusion is a breath of fresh air
The shame of BBC Sport
The BBC threatens to report gender critical women to the police
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
