The woke go broke
What’s the connection between shrinking profits and being vocally progressive?
Damian Reilly
Friday
Wednesday
Kanye West is the gift that keeps giving
Every time you think you understand him, he does something incomprehensible
Tuesday
What Putin and Trump understand about UFC
There is no political correctness in cage fighting. But that’s not to say it’s not political
Monday
Taylor Swift for President? The singer could be the Democrat to take on Trump
America’s prom queen endorsed two Tennessee Democrats this weekend
Wednesday
The sex-mad genius of Philip Roth
A few years ago I asked Martin Amis about Philip Roth. “All his dildos,” he replied, “he’s not letting it go.” At the time the comment struck me as harsh, but this morning when I saw the sad news of Roth’s death I remembered it with a little amusement. I understood what Amis was getting at: Roth … Read more
Wednesday
Peace in our time: If Katy Perry and Taylor Swift can do it, why not the Middle East?
Cynically timed to minimise news coverage, Katy Perry’s decision to bury the hatchet with Taylor Swift just as things are kicking off big style in the Middle East is nevertheless huge news. The parallels between the Swift/Perry crisis and the historic tensions in the Middle East have long been impossible to ignore. Both have come to define a generation, and … Read more
Tuesday
Sorry folks, but Donald Trump is funny. Intentionally funny
Sooner or later even President Trump’s most ardent detractors are going to have to admit that he is capable of being funny. Intentionally funny. Worse, they’re going to have to admit that he’s funny for precisely the reason that Hillary Clinton isn’t: because he’s able to laugh at himself. Did you see him at CPAC? … Read more
Thursday
The straight dope
From our UK edition
It’s not easy to get hold of Ángel Hernández, the legendary Mexican chemist who for a decade provided illicit performance-enhancing drugs to numerous athletes, including, he claims, all eight 100 metres finalists at the Beijing Olympics. It took me just over a year of trying. The FBI also struggled. The story goes that when they
Thursday
Survival of the sneakiest
From our UK edition
Could there be a better metaphor for the corruption that now pervades all top-level sport than the use of motors in professional cycling? It’s so perfectly shameless. If you’re going to cheat by finding illicit ways in which to enhance your performance, as virtually all sportspeople today are forced to do (we’ll come back to
Thursday
Stand up for Arsène
From our UK edition
I had 20 good years supporting Manchester United but now I follow Arsenal, and I find the treatment of the magnificent Arsène Wenger by large sections of my fellow fans mystifying and depressing. I supported Manchester United because when Rupert Murdoch bought top-tier English football in the early 1990s and started marketing it aggressively at
Thursday
Fighting chance
From our UK edition
Middle age is OK by me. National Trust membership, a Waitrose loyalty card, lying on the sofa drinking red wine and yelling at the telly — since I turned 40, this stuff all just feels right. But by a mile, the best consolation of middle age I’ve found is the cagefighter Conor McGregor and living
