Sporting Hero
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
How to be a ghost
Five elements to make a ghostwritten autobiography sing
Top ten sporting moments of 2021
Three months after taking her A-levels, Raducanu won a Grand Slam tournament without dropping a set
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
The best there is
Frankie Dettori’s unmatched skill, underestimated bravery and unprecedented love for the horses
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
