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The problem with rugby union
Rugby union has always attracted a certain type, the ‘play hard, party hard’ sort. I remember a former teammate –…
How can we stop football academy rejects ending up in prison?
‘The first team at Wormwood Scrubs is said to be better than QPR’s’. That line from Toby Young’s article from…
My part in Twitter’s downfall
Two years ago, I was the victim of a peculiarly postmodern version of left-wing cancel culture. After joking on Twitter…
Most-read 2024: Can Meghan and Harry stoop any lower?
We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 5: Julie Burchill’s article from December…
Gangster released early by Labour mocks Sir Keir in Christmas song
Not even the Christmas season can keep attention off Labour’s controversial policies for long. The furore around this year’s early…
Kemi accuses Farage of fiddling membership figures
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a family feud. Reform has spent this Boxing Day trumpeting its membership figures, which, it…
Trump was elected to change the status quo
It turns out that the campaign was the easy part. For Donald Trump, winning the election was just securing the…
Trump’s new world order
Donald Trump’s ascension to his second presidency comes with a new cadre of followers and sidekicks, in the form of…
The Covid cabinet
On March 24, 2020, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya co-published an article in the Wall Street Journal, “Is The Coronavirus As Deadly…
The mental health election spiral
My first semester of college coincided with the 2012 presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I was a…
Splitsville: separatist movements are gaining steam in blue states
Matt McCaw doesn’t want to live anywhere but in Oregon. But during the pandemic he felt like he was living…
The Democrats need a new rulebook
Donald Trump’s triumphal return to the White House is the end of more than just the Joe Biden era. Since…
This has been an awful year for the royals
At the beginning of King Charles’s Christmas speech this year, viewers may have been surprised when he did not immediately…
Reform overtake Tories on membership numbers
Nigel Farage has received a late Christmas present. According to figures released by Reform, his party has overtaken the Conservatives…
Road-tripping with Wittgenstein
North Carolina The ancients used the sun and moon to measure time, but modern man has a more exact instrument…
In praise of creative bores
I’ve been to a talk by two very clever and talented men: the American novelist and critic Jonathan Lethem and…
On embracing the winter years
Batavia, New York I sit in hospice at the bedside of my beloved Aunt Jane — who never let us…
The new political era
It seems likely that on Election Day the country entered fully upon the new political era that commenced with the…
A week at the World Backgammon Championship
Most people will know that there are no rivers in Monaco. The one I found there is the metaphorical waterway…
Skiing Hokkaido’s powder triangle
“Insane, isn’t it?!” Kyle yelled from thirty feet below, leaning back on his snowboard to watch me struggle. I summoned…
Tokyo drift: Japan’s once-pricey capital is now cost-effective… for Americans
I spent my last afternoon in Tokyo stocking up on snacks and feasting on cheap and delicious conveyor belt sushi,…
Is Paris the world’s most bookish city?
After I ventured to New York in May 2024, bound for a discerning literary journey round the city’s bookshops, libraries…
Off-season fun in Montauk
At the very end of Long Island you’ll find Montauk, the end of the line on the Long Island Rail…
My thoughts on Malört
It was January in Chicago and the forecast was for heavy snow followed by bitter cold — high time, I…
Strong stuff for a Dry January
If you spent your holiday season right, you’re reading this magazine with a hangover, fueled by seasonal excesses in eggnog,…
