As the new MCC president, I want to open up the game to everyone
It will be a privilege to watch cricket history and innovation converge
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It will be a privilege to watch cricket history and innovation converge
By Ed Smith
Making money for shareholders has become a fixation, John Kay’s new book shows – but it is a meagre…
By Ed Smith
New technologies cannot replace the pleasure and self-expression of living.
By Ed Smith
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s latest show highlights an era that saw the sporting and artistic worlds converge.
By Ed Smith
In politics and business, faceless systems have taken over decision-making and infantilised socity.
By Ed Smith
By sticking with Joe Biden, the party has shown how arrogant and out of touch it is.
By Ed Smith
Thanks to the digitisation of everyday essentials, we waste a far greater proportion of our lives on admin than…
By Ed Smith
The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all…
By Ed Smith
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight…
By Ed Smith