The grooming inquiry must examine how we can prevent marginalised young women falling prey to disgusting abusers

The prime minister had vowed to champion press freedom but has done nothing for a writer imprisoned for his work

Clerical rule has failed the country — the experience of Syria shows one possible way forward

The mating habits of the local birds leave little to the imagination and humans wouldn’t get away with them

The measure going through parliament is an improvement of the status quo rather than a radical departure from it

Poring over the correspondence between a British author and a female writer in Afghanistan helped me see that education is the only chance women there have of better life

The designer suggested that breastfeeding past six months has no benefits for the baby, leads to the child “being addicted” and is really just a selfish act

Ripping up the convention would be disastrous for the European effort against Russia. Instead, we must lead the change

Israel was told that Tehran’s nuclear potential was at a critical point and had no choice but to attack

It’s fashionable to romanticise the late 1990s but, from political correctness to TV addiction, it was far from benign