The city punishes those who accept the reality of biological sex and the material implications of existing in a female-sexed body

Richard Negus says the cruel sentimentality of the Hunting Act scars the countryside to this day, but the biggest loser is the animal it purported to protect

It would have been better for Simone Biles if we’d just accepted her defeat

The puritanical streak in the British character has gone into overdrive with Covid-19

To save the next generation, don’t listen to the fans

The control of free speech at universities is a first step on a path towards totalitarianism

The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache

In Brazil, the Republic has crossed the Rubicon

Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today

The row over sending great British bangers to Bangor illustrates a dismal lack of gastronomic culture