Let the games end: Athletes have better platforms than Commonwealth Games

Six of the 12 disciplines in which India scored medals have been dropped. Fully 30 of the 61 medals India won in the 2022 edition in Birmingham came from sports that won't be on the 2026 roster

One week in October 2024 has underlined in stark terms the truth that the Commonwealth has outlived its utility, if it ever had any. On Tuesday, an Australian senator and indigenous people’s activist heckled King Charles on a visit to Canberra accusing Britain of committing genocide and demanding back the land his colonising ancestors pinched from the continent’s original inhabitants. On Friday, the biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government (or Chogm) meeting was dominated by pointless discussions of reparations that Britain should pay Caribbean nations for slavery. Britannia may have ruled the waves on the back of colonies and slaves. Now