England poised to drop Chris Woakes for third West Indies Test as bowler’s overseas struggles continue
Chris Woakes is likely to be left out of the decisive third Test of the West Indies series after enduring a long and testing winter. Woakes is…
Seb Coe warns ‘the future of women’s sport’ is at stake in transgender athletes row
Asked how important the challenge of transgender women is in athletics, Coe said: “I think that the integrity of women’s sport – if we don’t get this…
Euro 2028 should be a celebration and chance to erase shame of Wembley chaos
But it is not all about Wembley. It can expect to be the venue for the final again, if it can prove it is fit for purpose,…
UK and Ireland to be confirmed as Euro 2028 hosts this week after no rival bids submitted
Q&A: Why are there no rival bids – and will Euro 2020 final chaos affect chances? By Tom Morgan Why is nobody else bidding? When the UK…
The terror of being labelled transphobic now tops any inclination to protect women’s sport
It is a manifest injustice to the aspiring young female swimmers of America that Lia Thomas, who in men’s competitions was ranked a mere 554th in the…
Inside Line: The moments that defined a thrilling Grand Slam for France
Then again, Dupont was covering across pretty quickly… The skipper seals it France 25 England 13 Even below their mesmerising best and, understandably, affected by nerves, France produced…
Who is running the RFU and what would Eddie Jones have to do to lose its faith? The key questions answered
This is Sweeney, almost exactly a year ago when he last addressed the media, challenging the notion that Jones has too much power. “I would say that…
Borrowing boost gives Rishi Sunak an extra £6bn to rescue households
“While the Chancellor is expected to get some good news on the current fiscal year, the outlook over the next twelve months will look very different.” Mr…
Top tips on how families can help protect the environment at home in 2022
Many of decided that 2022 was the year where we would make more of an effort to do our bit and help protect the environment. However, you…
Spring Statement 2022: what to expect from Rishi Sunak’s announcement
Rishi Sunak’s last two Spring Statements were dominated by vast spending and multi-billion pound bailout programmes to help businesses and workers through the pandemic. But this time…
Google’s unhealthy dominance of advertising is finally being exposed
But the details only came out in dribs and drabs until the full unredacted document was disclosed this January. The subsequent outcry left the CMA little choice…
Apple outage takes Music, App Store, TV+ and Maps offline
Apple suffered a widespread outage, knocking services such as Apple Music, iCloud and the App Store offline for some users and even affecting its internal corporate and…
China’s Hikvision embroiled in new row with Britain’s CCTV watchdog
Britain’s CCTV watchdog has stepped up a row with Hikvision, the Chinese state-backed camera maker, pulling out of the industry’s annual conference in protest at its sponsorship…
Rishi Sunak’s four National Insurance options
Rishi Sunak has boxed himself into a corner with next month’s national insurance (NI) raid. The Chancellor faces pressure to rethink plans pledged last September of a…
Weaning the world off Russian grain means letting farmers decide how to use their land
Even worse, we have blocked the emerging technologies that could have been significantly increasing yields. Huge advances have been made in gene editing and in genetically modifying…
‘I don’t want to live in a bigger North Korea’: Russian brain drain as the young flee Putin
Losing young workers, particularly your most talented and educated, typically lowers growth, reduces tax revenue, creates staff shortages and rids economies of wealth-creating entrepreneurs. An IMF study…
Gazprom’s UK supply division faces nationalisation
The British supply arm of Gazprom is facing nationalisation under plans drawn up by ministers to protect thousands of its customers in heavy industry from running out…
Rishi Sunak, the ‘jam tomorrow’ Chancellor
Sunak is facing an uncertain growth outlook and rising budgetary pressures, such as military spending, while a downgrade to borrowing forecasts in 2021/22 could be followed by…
P&O’s mass sackings put hundreds more ferry jobs at risk, warns rival
Hundreds more seafarers are at risk of being made redundant and replaced with cheaper agency staff if P&O Ferries’ mass sackings are not overturned, a rival operator…
Cost of charging electric cars on the street hits new high
FairCharge, a group campaigning for the 20pc VAT rate on public charging points to be cut, said the disparity meant those paying at public points paid £185…
London house prices ’50pc overvalued’, sparking correction fears
The London property market is overvalued by as much as 50pc, raising fears of a looming correction, according to a leading global ratings agency. S&P Global Ratings,…
Boris Johnson prepares planning overhaul to speed up nuclear power plants
Boris Johnson is readying an overhaul of planning laws to speed up the building of nuclear power stations as Europe fights to wean itself off Russian gas. At a meeting…