Jonathan Liew is a sportswriter and Opinion columnist for the Guardian
November 2025
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong
Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
October 2025
Marinakis calls the tune at Nottingham Forest – but what is his endgame?
Jonathan Liew
Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now?
Jonathan Liew
Benjamin Sesko is latest player damned by a pitiless conveyor belt of takes and memes
Drag acts, detractors and true-blue diehards: my weird weekend at a Margaret Thatcher festival
Football Weekly
Comfortable win for England; chaotic comeback for Scotland – Football Weekly
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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime?
Jonathan Liew
England beware: terminally obsessed Marnus Labuschagne has gone back to basics
Jonathan Liew
West Ham tumble in modern football’s global vortex, with home now a distant memory
Jonathan Liew
September 2025
Ageing revolutionary Guardiola is waging war on his own tactical orthodoxies
Jonathan Liew
The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for
Jonathan Liew
Football Weekly
Liverpool’s late show stays on air and Kane sinks Chelsea – Football Weekly Extra
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Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield
Jonathan Liew
Superfans descend on Windsor to enliven Trump’s festival of nothing
Barcelona in Miami? Milan in Perth? Welcome to the league of anywhere
Jonathan Liew
What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country?
Jonathan Liew
Tuchel may scorn politics, but his England team cannot escape their symbolism
Jonathan Liew
August 2025
Grimsby deepen ridicule for Ruben Amorim as he ploughs on with flawed, final stand
Jonathan Liew
Carabao Cup humiliation is the latest setback for a coach who may actually be the last real thing at Manchester United
Football Weekly
Rio’s teenage kick caps a thriller at St James’ Park – Football Weekly
Max Rushden is joined by John Brewin, Lucy Ward and Jonathan Liew as Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-2 away from home thanks to a debut goal in the 99th minute from teenager Rio Ngumoha
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Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track misses the vital village-fete feel of athletics
Jonathan Liew
Shearing off apparently extraneous matter is how the featherless chicken was hatched. But ditching field events is too much plucking
