Enjoy this year's very-best short-form think pieces from our younger readership.

Super shoes: the next step in human evolution or the end of the road for fair competition? Paul Simpson unties the technological arms race behind the world's fastest treads. 

For anyone looking for their next read, Match Fit by Johnnie Lowery should be top of the list.

Paul Simpson strikes up what makes the England captain so unassumingly brilliant.