Sport
Snooker Without Balls
Affinity between aficionadoes of baize and board
Down But Not Out
Peter Oborne recounts cricket’s progress in Pakistan with the meticulousness and dedication such a rich and unlikely story deserves
In Walton’s Footsteps
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
Jocks Away
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy’s Jewish Jocks features some real life He-Menschen, but also a host of anti-jocks: tennis’s first transexual player and the world record hot dog competition eater
Olympian Angst
‘Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion’
The Silencing of South Africa’s Greatest Cricket Side
Most of the world-beating cricket team of the 1970s were anti-apartheid. Now they are shut out from the national game
Going Mainstream
Television networks have long since abandoned chess but a multi-millionaire promoter plans to catapult it back into the limelight
Online Only: The Great Olympic Sham
Politicians and bureaucrats at the IOC have made a mockery of the Olympic ideal. The Games-as-state-propaganda machine makes Soviets of us all
Bowled Over
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places
Real Men Don’t Use Brylcreem
Public displays of emotion, sequins, ear studs and nancy boy’s clothes: where have all the men’s men gone?
Only Congress can tame Beijing’s bloody instincts
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom is inspirational. But outsiders must help by challenging police violence
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
The riddle of the car bomb and the lucky gambler
Investigating the assassination of a Maltese journalist has been a masterclass in legal ping-pong