Gianni Infantino: ultimate ball-breaker
When does it end? When will football’s extraordinary growth stop? Will it ever cease to be the world’s most popular sport? There was a time when it would have seemed…
The abuse of a black teen’s death
Americans were supposed to have left racial reckonings behind, in 2020 or thenabouts. Yet the death of Nolan Wells, a teenage star black athlete from Ocean Springs, Miss., has become…
Will Zack Polanski ever grow up?
Unlike the new Prime Minister, who likes his T-Shirts plain, Zack Polanski prefers his decorated with political messages. In a photoshoot earlier this year, the Green Party leader donned one…
Lies Al Gore told me
It was just another day in school in the sweltering heat of suburban South Florida. Upon our return from afternoon recess, our fifth-grade teacher treated us to a documentary written…
Trump can still win the Iran war
As the war in Iran enters its fifth month, President Trump is growing increasingly frustrated. He sees few good options to end the war and talks of “lunatics” and “revenge…
Jason Arday: Cambridge’s DEI darling
The progressive world loves a good fairy tale. Autistic and totally mute till the age of 11, Professor Jason Arday only learned to read and write at 18. Since then,…
What Elon gets wrong about England
When work follows you everywhere, how do you switch off? You can, if you wish, hide from your emails by spending £500 a night on a remote luxury retreat for…
Will the cinema god forgive Nolan?
I held off on seeing The Odyssey. I wasn’t sure why. Maybe I was flinching from the thunder of publicity — crammed with promises of spectacle, the unspeakable and the…
How Andy Burnham mogged Britain
Comrade, this long march is one hell of a slog. I speak of Andy Burnham’s social-media campaign, a relentless process of ingratiation with the credulous commenters of TikTok. A week…
The Left’s war on anti-crime tech
Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard and MIT…