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From kids running around in suburban parks to the gruelling Test arena, cricket continues to inspire, unite and spread joy.

The idea that cricket is the national sport is long gone. For all sorts of reasons, it no longer captivates the country.

MPs soon have a once-in-a-generation chance to vote for the assisted dying bill. Wes Streeting must not derail it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

My mum and dad eventually realised I was happy being a little freak. And so is Basil

Fox News hosts are publicly bemused to see their colleagues tapped for cabinet positions. In private, they’re more shocked

Allison Pearson, the highly respectable Daily Telegraph middlebrow columnist, was naturally startled when, on Remembrance Sunday morning, two police presented themselves at her door to tell her that she was under investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred in connection with a social media post on X and invited her…

So much energy is consumed following the Metropolitan Police and its many inquiries, reviews and staff legal troubles that it is sometimes possible to forget that it is, at its core, a police force with no more important job than to protect Londoners. But according to the commissioners, Scotland Yard…

The lesson of this election is that Democrats must attack inequality – and not cede working-class voters to Trump

Will there be a national abortion ban? A ban on mailed abortion medication? I talked to some experts