If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of wildfires raged across Los Angeles, killing hundreds (more on that number below). On the other side of the country, an Arctic blast brought historic snowfall and bitter cold deep into...
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s sometimes used by scientists to test run Mars missions. Most years the area sees less than half a centimeter of rain, but this past September unusually heavy precipitation brought forth...
How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other leaders in the government, announced a $12 billion farm aid program intended to offset the economic blowback that U.S. farmers have faced this year as a result of the president’s...
England face daunting task as Ashes series resumes in shadow of tragedy
Sunday’s events in Bondi have stunned Australia and the watching world before a third Test that could be a decisive one for this England team’s legacy Adelaide may be 1,300km to the west of Bondi but the sense of pain in the city has been no less for the distance....
It’s Lionesses v Red Roses v Rory’s Europe as BBC names Spoty team of year shortlist
Public vote will decide winner among back-to-back European champions, Rugby World Cup winners and Team Europe England’s Lionesses are up against their rugby union counterparts, the Red Roses, and Europe’s winning Ryder Cup side on the shortlist for team of the year at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year...
Jockey Club behaves like old-style lord of the manor over secretive Kempton sale plans | Greg Wood
There is a hint of feudalism about the way the unelected body has treated those who love the track like its serfs It has taken the better part of a decade but the Jockey Club, the private, self-appointed body that has wielded immense power in racing for nearly 300 years,...
Thomas Frank is running out of time to fix Tottenham Hotspur | Jonathan Wilson
Spurs have faced low moments in their history, and this is one of them. How will the club respond in the post-Daniel Levy era? Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here Tottenham Hotspur, Thomas Frank said after Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest, are “not a quick fix”. That’s...
By not explaining ‘worst 48 hours’ Enzo Maresca has put himself at even greater risk | Jacob Steinberg
Manager’s comments on Saturday have left Chelsea baffled and the Italian in danger If Enzo Maresca was interested in ending speculation that he has a problem with elements of Chelsea’s hierarchy then he would have done so on Monday . Instead the Italian made no attempt to clear up a...
Manchester United and Bournemouth share thrills and spills in eight-goal extravaganza
From near-total control to collapse to late Bruno Fernandes and Matheus Cunha goals that seemed to put Manchester United on the right end of a 4-3 festive thriller. But then, yet more horrific defending allowed Eli Junior Kroupi, on as a substitute, to score Bournemouth’s third equaliser and the points...
Cameron Menzies cracks in the cauldron as darts faces an uncomfortable truth
The Scotsman is a wry, slightly daft ex-plumber who wears his heart on his sleeve. So why does the Ally Pally crowd enjoy goading him? By the time Cameron Menzies finally leaves the arena, the blood gushing from the gash on his right hand has trickled its way down the...