Sports History
An inspired cheat
Admiring William Webb Ellis’s “fine disregard for the rules”
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord