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

He quit politics when his constituency voted to leave Europe. Now the V&A’s director is engaged in a different culture war. By Alice Thomson

The needy are priced out of a job, millionaires have fled abroad and private pupils are filling up struggling state schools

After five years of challenging misogyny and sexual offending at secondary school, the charity Everyone’s Invited realised the problems are starting even younger

Christo Grozev is the journalist who tracked down Alexei Navalny’s poisoners and identified the Salisbury agents. How does he get results when intelligence agencies fail?

The biggest benefits scam of all is brand new, top of the range cars, taxed, MoT’d and insured, for the not-so-disabled

Unhappy and jobless young people need work experience and careers advice if they are to escape the benefits trap

Unhappy and jobless young people need work experience and careers advice if they are to escape the benefits trap

From Newton’s apple tree to the oldest yew in the country, Alice Thomson celebrates the nation’s most iconic species. Plus: 13 of the UK’s most extraordinary trees

The Oscar success of Anora has challenged Hollywood prudes and can restore healthier attitudes than what is pushed online

Our great collections have become the battleground for culture wars — too much handwringing will drive visitors away

Baroness Bertin, Lord Cameron’s former press officer, is determined to curb online content that degrades women and, she fears, rewires young people’s brains

Everyone in the justice system knows that incarceration is expensive and ineffective but the lock ’em up mindset rules

‘Loneliest generation’ need our help escaping the strictures, some of them self-imposed, that make love so elusive

While carrying another woman’s baby can raise moral and ethical qualms, with proper vetting it fulfils a vital need

Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, is dubious about extending the definition of extremism and suggests setting up a unit

He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks about his memoir, Source Code — and what happened when he ...

He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks about his memoir, Source Code — and what happened when he ...

He may be dangerously misguided about vaccines but Trump’s chosen health chief could turn the tide on obesity

The tragic death of ‘cancelled’ Oxford student Alexander Rogers made headlines earlier this month. But undergraduates at some universities are not surprised. Alice Thomson finds out what’s really goin...

Jane Hartley has had a unique perspective on the turbulence on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years. She reveals what she loves about the UK — and why Netflix’s The Diplomat is categorically not...

They struggle to find decent jobs and are in a ‘relationship recession’ — let’s at least give them freedom to work abroad

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Tech billionaire’s posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue

He once said he kept out of politics, now he rages against the British government. Helen Rumbelow reports

While politicians squabble with Elon Musk for the moral high ground on grooming gangs, the victims are forgotten

While politicians squabble with Elon Musk for the moral high ground on grooming gangs, the victims are forgotten

Andrew Norfolk, The Times journalist who first revealed the abuse in 2011, says there needs to be proper research into the issues that let criminals flourish

She did her best art in hospitals, away from the screaming demands of family life. Yet she’d always return to that family—to me and my brothers

Phasing out pointed-tip kitchen knives in favour of round-tip knives is a natural extension of the UK’s progress on weapons control.

Amid much pessimism there are also several things that may well lift the mood

There is much more to solving Britain’s housing crisis than extravagant promises about bulldozing the planning process

The former Conservative Party chairman and advertising titan was devastated when his wife, the writer Josephine Hart, died of cancer in 2011. Now he’s in a relationship with Lynn Forester de Rothschil...