Sport
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
The Olympic boxing row isn’t just about sports
Men should be more sensitive towards female concerns about inequalities of strength
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
