Sports
An Ashes autopsy
C’est magnifique, mais
Not letting the Games begin
Progressive hubris spoils a chance for Australian success
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
Steals on wheels
Women are having their cycling podium places stolen from under their noses by trans-identified men
The not-so-beautiful game
Paul Lay and Nick Timothy discuss the morality — and immorality — of football
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
Going deep on the river
Make no mistake, the boat race is a blood sport
The Klitschkos’ greatest fight
The boxing brothers are proving their mettle in the battle against Putin
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
