This article has been updated as part of our Euro 2024 and Copa America coverage, after originally being published in 2021. The word is “whakapapa”. It comes from the Maori language and it is about ...

Gareth Southgate was always meant to represent a clean break with England’s past, a chance to draw a line under recent history and start anew. But the most alarming thing about England’s performances ...

Which is the largest nation in Europe to lack a state of its own? The Catalans? The Walloons? Wrong and wrong. It is the English: population 50 million-plus, all of them under the government of a ...

IT’S St George’s Day, when England celebrates its patron saint – and all that’s best about this green and pleasant land. Amid the troubles and worries of our world, it’s easy to forget how much we’ve ...

England’s Six Nations campaign lies in ruins in Rome. A first-ever defeat by Italy some 26 years since they first met here in the Six Nations leaves England at risk of their worst-ever campaign and ...