Sports
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
Don’t buffer the truth about censorship zones
This is an attack on freedom and choice
King of the clay court
On the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, Nadal is God
Censored speech
The Queen’s speech revealed a government failing to protect free expression
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Did prayer decide the Battle of Goose Green?
The expedition to take back the Falkland Islands was riskier than we might think
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
There’s nothing rebellious about Green “protests”
Elites accept most of their premises already
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger