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So black is now Black. In the wake of the protests after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many others, editors everywhere have decreed with sudden and remarkable unanimity that the formerly common adjective referring to African-Am...

As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...

Although opinion polls currently put President Donald Trump’s approval among black voters at between 20 and 30 per cent, most experts doubt that anything like that proportion of the black vote will go to Trump on Election Day. Yes, strange things hap...

Oh, but we live in sour times. The Super Bowl next month will feature the Most Hated Team in Football against an opponent who got there because of the Worst Call in Play-off History. Of the hatred, I have nothing at present to say. Let’s talk about t...

Allow me to confess a shameful secret: I am constantly losing track of Game of Thrones characters. This debility afflicts me particularly during the long winters between seasons. When someone who vanished from the story years ago suddenly reappears, ...

There is a wonderful story midway through Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, Jimmy Breslin’s 1963 book about the delightfully awful first season of the New York Mets. In the midst of a spectacular loss, with one pitcher after another being shellacke...

Baseball, the great Roger Angell once wrote, is “a sneaky quick-change artist”, and this year has brought the biggest switch in decades. They are calling the 2016 World Series the battle of the Lovable Losers, and I couldn’t be happier. I may not be ...