Sportsmanship
Simply the best
It is not just trophies and success that mark out Federer, but grace, personality and charm
Enduring enjoyment
The nostalgia of live sport continues to live on
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism