Amol Rajan: Help us to run up some funds for two great causes
Unlike most of its rivals and fellow travellers across the British press, this column feels no shame whatsoever in plugging the work of charities that need all the help they can get – including those with which your humble correspondent is tangentially associated. It is a brutally difficult time for...

Amol Rajan: The Authors XI, a game at Wormsley, and two noble charities
Unlike most of its rivals and fellow travellers across the British press, this column feels no shame whatsoever in plugging the work of charities that need all the help they can get – including those with which your humble correspondent is tangentially associated. It is a brutally difficult time for...

Rajan's Wrong 'un: Gayle's case shows overseas pro system is short-changing fans
Barely a decade ago, spectators at county cricket matches could still feel familiar with their side's overseas pro. One of the early attractions of the game to me was how, at the first games I went to see, players as garlanded as Mark Waugh (Essex), Carl Hooper (Kent and Lancashire)...

Amol Rajan: Ryanair - you pay your money and take your choice
The headline at Mail Online said it all yesterday, as headlines at Mail Online tend to: "Ryanair rakes in record profits as it squeezes more out of customers in add-on fees and in-flight sales".

Amol Rajan: Hague can crack a whip all he likes ... it may not work
If there are two words modern politicians are generally forbidden from using in tandem, it is "work" and "harder". William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, and Eric Pickles, his Cabinet colleague with responsibility for 'Communities', were at it earlier this week. And the bucket of opprobrium poured over both their heads...