I face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – misogyny is unacceptable whatever side of the aisle we’re on | Georgie Purcell
I am one of Jacinta Allan’s most vocal critics. But calling a woman a witch is not political criticism, and must be called out Like most households, mine has a…
Vagina lasers, bananas and an awkward Cumberbatch: 10 surprising moments in Madonna’s new video
Sabrina Carpenter, a car crash, a urinal, Kate Moss and, of course, those perplexing green lasers: Confessions II has it all. Let’s make some sense of it … Madonna’s new…
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a flop – but 25 years later, it is an exquisite digital relic
Though it feels as if it has little to do with the games series it is based on, this groundbreaking film endures as a milestone for CGI animation, with a…
Practice dates: should you swipe right on people you’re not attracted to?
Still hoping to meet ‘the one’? While you’re waiting, one dating expert says you should romance someone you’re not totally smitten with. It could be the start of something beautiful…
A cage-fighting arena is just what Trump’s White House lawn needed. I have a suggestion on how to use it | Marina Hyde
The president’s new Craposseum is the perfect venue for Vance, Hegseth and others to battle for favour. Fight, fight, fight indeed On behalf of the US administration, the American embassy…
‘Parasitic cleanses’ are the latest health trend to infest social media. But what does the evidence say? | Antiviral
Influencers are promising pills with all sorts of ‘natural’ ingredients, but do they actually work and could they cause harm? Read more in the Antiviral series Parasitic infections are fairly…
Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster…
Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing
The socially relaxed city has seen a cautious feminist revival despite authorities’ growing alarm at women who shun traditional roles In a small, unassuming bookstore in south-west China, a discreet…
David Squires on … the World Cup reimagined as Gianni Infantino’s West Side Story
As football’s greatest spectacle comes to North America, our cartoonist creates a heartwarming narrative around the Fifa president Buy a cartoon | David’s favourite works of 2025 And his latest…
World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected?
Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions For successive men’s World Cup tournaments Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way through…