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Stirling Moss’s favourite car: racing legend’s Mercedes SL heads to auction

July 25, 2022

A unique car built to the exacting specifications of Sir Stirling Moss, this 1966 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL will be auctioned next month.
Mazda MX-5 review: Five comes alive

July 25, 2022

The MX-5 offers a single-minded purity and sense of connection that the majority of cars lack. We drive the latest version, updated for 2022.
Verstappen pounces on Leclerc and Ferrari’s errors

July 24, 2022

Yesterday’s French Grand Prix result saw a top three that could have been from so many races last season: two Mercedes drivers and one from Red Bull. Because at Circuit Paul Ricard the Silver Arrows of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell achieved their team’s first double podium of the season, flanking Drivers’ Championship leader and [...]
Women’s Euro 2022: England aiming to exorcise semi-final ghosts against Sweden

July 24, 2022

England won’t just be facing Sweden when they take to a sold-out Bramall Lane in Sheffield for their Women’s Euro 2022 semi-final on Tuesday night. The Lionesses will also have to confront some ghosts of major tournaments past, having suffered a sequence of painful defeats in the last four. At the 2015 World Cup in [...]
The Commonwealths are the ‘Local Global Games’

July 24, 2022

The Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham this week. It’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, so where better than England’s second city? They should, however, be taking place in Durban, which would have become the first African city to host the Games. The opening day would have been last week – on 18 July, Nelson Mandela’s birthday [...]
101 Dalmatians musical at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review

July 24, 2022

One of the last-remaining Covid-hit productions, new musical 101 Dalmatians has finally opened, two years late, at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. So was it worth the wait? Well… Let’s start with the good bits. The dalmatians themselves – or at least the two main ones, the rest are bodiless heads – are brought to [...]
Patriots at the Almeida is a gripping drama about the rise of Putin

July 22, 2022

The story of the rise of Putin and the oligarchs has been told through various lenses in recent years. Author Peter Pomerantsev places shadowy “Kremlin demiurge” Vladislav Surkov at the heart of his gripping memoir-cum-investigation Nothing is True and Everything is Possible. Lucy Prebble’s all-singing, all-dancing play A Very Expensive Poison put Alexander Litvenenko front [...]
Dame Sarah Storey previews the Tour de France Femmes

July 22, 2022

One of sport’s most recognisable scenes involves a peloton of more than 170 men hurtling down the Champs-Élysées, where the Tour de France yellow jersey wearer is traditionally crowned champion of the gruelling 21-day bike race. But just hours before the latest chapter of men’s cycling history is written, the first of a monumental era [...]
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher review: far from a knockout

July 22, 2022

Just when you thought every boxing story imaginable had been committed to film, Prizefighter unearths the intriguing real-life tale of Jem Belcher. Embodied by Welsh actor Matt Hookings, who also wrote and produced the film, Belcher became the youngest ever World Champion towards the turn of the 19th Century, a record that stands to this [...]
England chief executive floats idea of sending potential coaches to Georgia

July 21, 2022

England Rugby’s chief executive Bill Sweeney has floated the idea of placing coaches at second-tier nations such as Georgia to groom them for the England job. Speaking a week after England wrapped up a 2-1 Test series win against Australia Down Under, Sweeney suggested that a long-term coaching succession plan would not be realised until [...]