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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.

The government is hoping to pass legislation that would prevent Clive Palmer-style campaign spending, and Australia has voted for a UN resolution recognising Palestine’s ‘permanent sovereignty’ over its resources.

Editorial: Simon Harris has called a vote for 29 November because he is leading in the polls. But the current economic boom masks serious inequalities

Editorial: A new legal framework for talking therapies would take careful work. But better signposting could happen now

The date was 17 May 2006, and I bunked off school. I say bunked – my teacher was informed and I was with my Dad – but the three of us agreed to keep it a secret. All that mattered was I was off to Paris for the Champions League…

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…