Sports
All right on the night
The enchanted world of nocturnal football
Southern discomfort
Has rugby league finally given up on London?
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
Sing when you’re sinning
Football may be the new religion, but it faces the same challenges as the old
Breaking the Knee
The story of a man who once held his hand to the Olympic fire
Obsessed by fantasy football
To enter a Fantasy Football season is to be as one with Donald Rumsfeld prior to the Iraq War, but with less insight
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
The New Political Battleground
The fortunes of Rugby League and the Conservative Party are now intrinsically linked
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
