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?
The Brexit crunch approaches
Thorny issues remain unresolved as the transition period comes to a close. Yet the hurdles to a deal are not insurmountable
Meritocracy makes a new ruling class
Innovation has often come from hard work by unlettered people. But young progressives now seem to treat education as a proxy for virtue
Some black lives matter more than others
Black Lives Matter misses the point—we should highlight the progress we have made, not split society and trap ourselves in victimhood