Sporting Hero
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
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion
Fifty shades of muck
The lost art of governing your tongue
Trans activism before medical standards
Professional counselling bodies have sided with Stonewall against standard paediatric practice
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Trojan charities
Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable
Guilty of Journalism
In defence of Glen Owen doing his job
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them