The joy of winter birdwatching (and how it’s changing)
Our harsh December days are a temperate escape for some gorgeous birds
Through terror and scandal, the joy of sport endures
Through terror and scandal, it endures
How your garden can help save the hedgehog
Mrs Tiggywinkle’s in deep trouble. But your garden could help
Paula Radcliffe is a victim of our hypocrisy and confusion about drugs and sport
Do you want to see Paula Radcliffe’s blood? If so, you’re not alone. Radcliffe, three-time winner of the London Marathon…
Rhinos are being wiped out for the sake of fairytales
Can anything protect the rhino from rapacious human stupidity?
Why nothing in sport beats thrashing the Aussies at cricket
Why nothing in sport beats thrashing the Aussies at cricket
Why a wolf’s place is not in the kitchen…
The fad for owning animals from films is daft and damaging
Why sport and sham morality go so well together
Why sport and sham morality go so well together
A piece of primeval England reborn in Sussex
A piece of ancient England is being reborn around a castle in Sussex
I know that Richard Dawkins is wrong about Down’s syndrome, because I know my son
I know that people with Down’s syndrome are not better off dead, because I know my son
Simon Barnes’s diary: A sportswriter is never without a big subject (unless it’s golf)
Sport is like love: it can only really hurt you if you care. Or for that matter, bring joy. You…
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It’s a rum go, working in sport professionally. Your business is everybody else’s fun; their frivolity is your seriousness. Still,…
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