Football obviously has a doping problem
For an astonishing length of time the attitude of football authorities to the prospect of widespread doping at the sport’s…
Does tennis have a doping problem?
Is it more remarkable that Romanian two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep took performance enhancing drugs, or that she was caught?…
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?…
The Schofield saga has become an unedifying spectacle
In the mid-90s when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate I did work experience at the now defunct The Face magazine.…
Who could replace Gary Lineker on Match of the Day?
Just when you thought you couldn’t handle any more depressing news, Gary Lineker has started dropping hints that his days…
We’re finding out who really runs the BBC
The high-profile political activist Gary Lineker will not present Match of the Day tonight after he likened the rhetoric of the government to 1930s Germany.…
Is Facebook’s verification scheme a scam?
Is Facebook’s scheme, announced over the weekend, to encourage its three billion users to pay $12 (£10) a month to…
UFC boss Dana White can’t survive his wife-slapping scandal
Mike Tyson is said once to have claimed the best punch he’d ever thrown was one he landed on actress…
Inside The Privileged Man, the support group for men who have it all
The support group for men who have it all
Are Brits ready for mansplaining Rishi?
After manspreading Boris, is the UK ready for mansplaining Rishi? At last night’s BBC leadership debate, during which the Chancellor…
Ditching Boris was a terrible mistake
Watching the Channel 4 leadership debate last night was thoroughly depressing. If only Boris Johnson’s premiership hadn’t ended in the…
Does Twitter believe in free speech?
Would Donald Trump still be president if Twitter and Facebook had not prevented people from sharing the now-infamous New York…
Trump, Piers Morgan and the power of self-publicity
If ‘real recognise real’ – by far my favourite piece of modern American vernacular – then Donald Trump’s latest tiff…
Against Dominic Cummings
I’m no Westminster insider, but there comes a point when you have to consider that perhaps Carrie Johnson was right…
In praise of Novak Djokovic
Like you, I am hugely enjoying the Novak Djokovic drama Down Under. What’s not to like? It is extremely funny.…
The cynical brilliance of Boris Johnson's green conversion
Does Boris Johnson really believe, as he told COP26 a few days ago, we’re at ‘one minute to midnight’ on…
Why Boris wins
A couple of years ago at The Spectatorsummer party I realised I was standing close to the British prime minister.…
Emma Raducanu can save tennis
Something perfect at the death of summer: Emma Raducanu in full flight, smoking winners up the lines and progressing without…
How the Super League sabotaged itself
‘So you’re telling me they’re wetting the bed because we’re suggesting the same teams should compete in a competition in…
The problem with Facebook's 'Supreme Court'
He might now be one of the most powerful men in global media, but I find whenever I see a…
Will Dogecoin give Elon Musk the last laugh?
There’s something deeply pleasing for fans of cosmic jokes everywhere about the world’s richest man personally taking the time to…
Harry and Meghan’s podcast of political correctness
Why is there not a single trans voice featured in Harry and Meghan’s first podcast? It’s a question that needs…
Our collective nervous breakdown
It’s being sold by some as a glorious revolution, but what Western culture is really experiencing is a garden variety…
The straight dope
It’s not easy to get hold of Ángel Hernández, the legendary Mexican chemist who for a decade provided illicit performance-enhancing…
Survival of the sneakiest
Could there be a better metaphor for the corruption that now pervades all top-level sport than the use of motors…
