Sunday April 20 2025
The Times & The Sunday Times
Two women from For Women Scotland stand by a fence in London.
Supreme Court victors getting death threats in gender ruling backlash

As protests mount against the judgment on biological sex, Mumsnet says it was ‘blacklisted’ from hosting government ads over its trans stance
Politics
HADLEY FREEMAN
We’re bloody-minded, not bigots — the court trio who changed history

When they met on Mumsnet these women thought they’d be talking about shopping. Instead they grew determined to prove that sex is biological
Scotland
UPDATED
Russia’s Easter truce is a lie and attacks go on, says Zelensky
Russia-Ukraine war
King Charles III, Queen Camilla, President Macron, and Brigitte Macron at a state banquet in Versailles.
Macron to make UK state visit months before Trump

The French president will see his friend King Charles in May, prompting questions about Britain’s trade priorities
Royal family
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Woman in white outfit sitting in office chair by pedestrian crossing sign.
INTERVIEW
How Amelia Dimoldenberg went from Chicken Shop Date to Hollywood
Celebrity
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Massimo Amitrano, a cable car driver, stands outdoors.
‘I was saved by a coffee’: inside Naples’ fatal cable car crash
Europe
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Protestors in Parliament Square holding signs advocating for trans rights.
The trans rights age gap: ‘It’s infuriating when Mum argues about loos’
Politics
Photo of a mother and son sitting outdoors.
How pouches of pure nicotine became a teenage craze
Parenting
Illustration of a graduate's head obscured by a torn piece of money, wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Private college has funding blocked amid student loan scandal
Education
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Black and white photo of Edna O'Brien in her Chelsea home.
FIRST PERSON
Barbara Broccoli on Edna O’Brien: My friend with a taste for chaos
Books
Parents get £35m payout after NHS failures damaged baby’s brain
Healthcare
Man with cane walking toward large house by lake.
Skies, scandal and stately homes: my walk round Turner’s Britain

To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, Matt Rudd retraces the great painter’s steps
Art
Easter egg-shaped cookies filled with orange jam.
RECIPE
Three recipes for Easter treats
Food & Drink
A journalist and her mother sitting at a table with mugs of tea.
Experts have defined the perfect day. Could I follow their formula?
Science
A grieving husband embraces his daughter at his wife's funeral.
Years of rage over my wife’s Arena death, reignited by jail attack
Crime
The Big Three—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—seated at the Yalta Conference.
TIM BOUVERIE
I study how we beat Nazism. The last few weeks alarm me
History
Knitted Easter decorations on a post box.
The covert ‘yarn bombers’ covering Britain in knitting at 4am
Art
Illustration of hands reaching for a basket of Easter eggs.
How to give money to your family (legally)
Money
A grieving husband embraces his daughter at his wife's funeral.
Years of rage over my wife’s Arena death, reignited by jail attack
Crime
The Big Three—Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin—seated at the Yalta Conference.
TIM BOUVERIE
I study how we beat Nazism. The last few weeks alarm me
History
Knitted Easter decorations on a post box.
The covert ‘yarn bombers’ covering Britain in knitting at 4am
Art
Illustration of hands reaching for a basket of Easter eggs.
How to give money to your family (legally)
Money
Easter egg-shaped cookies filled with orange jam.
RECIPE
Three recipes for Easter treats
Food & Drink
A journalist and her mother sitting at a table with mugs of tea.
Experts have defined the perfect day. Could I follow their formula?
Science
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World
Photo of many shirtless detainees sitting on the floor of a prison, surrounded by guards.
STEPHEN GIBBS IN SAN SALVADOR
Phantom cocktails at the El Salvador hotel that’s the centre of Trump’s migrant row

The US justice department has admitted the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García was a mistake but he is unlikely to be returned
Latin America
Illustration of a matcha drink character running away from a hand.
The tiny Japanese town struggling to supply the West’s thirst for matcha
Asia
Maria Karystianou, a Greek pediatrician, sits on a couch.
Two years after rail disaster ‘cover-up’, Greece is angrier than ever
Europe
Collage of Canadian political figures.
ANALYSIS
Why conservatives can’t seem to crack Canada
Canada
Collage of Putin, Zelenskyy, and Ukrainian refugees.
ANALYSIS
MARK GALEOTTI
Putin’s ‘truce’ is no peace deal — so what next for Ukraine?
Russia-Ukraine war
A mother says goodbye to her deceased daughter at a funeral ceremony.
Russia is burning homes to pave way for a new assault
Russia-Ukraine war
Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican
Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican
Europe
Collage of Canadian political figures.
ANALYSIS
Why conservatives can’t seem to crack Canada
Canada
Collage of Putin, Zelenskyy, and Ukrainian refugees.
ANALYSIS
MARK GALEOTTI
Putin’s ‘truce’ is no peace deal — so what next for Ukraine?
Russia-Ukraine war
A mother says goodbye to her deceased daughter at a funeral ceremony.
Russia is burning homes to pave way for a new assault
Russia-Ukraine war
Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican
Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican
Europe
Illustration of a matcha drink character running away from a hand.
The tiny Japanese town struggling to supply the West’s thirst for matcha
Asia
Maria Karystianou, a Greek pediatrician, sits on a couch.
Two years after rail disaster ‘cover-up’, Greece is angrier than ever
Europe
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Comment
a bald man wearing glasses and a suit smiles for the camera
MATTHEW SYED In Vietnam I saw all the urgency and purpose the West once had

Despite a repressive regime its people have a work ethic our rights-obsessed rulers should learn from
Illustration of an Easter egg hunt with politicians dressed as rabbits, referencing local elections.

Cartoon by Morten Morland

a man in a suit and blue shirt looks at the camera
DOMINIC LAWSON America’s malaise is entirely homemade — tariffs won’t fix it
Headshot of Jason Cowley.
JASON COWLEY Calling Farage racist only fires up his troops
Portrait of Rachel de Souza.
RACHEL DE SOUZA Cut your own phone use before you try it with children
a woman wearing a red sweater and a grey shirt smiles for the camera
HADLEY FREEMAN I lost friends and a job in the trans witch-hunt
a man in a suit and blue shirt looks at the camera
DOMINIC LAWSON America’s malaise is entirely homemade — tariffs won’t fix it
Headshot of Jason Cowley.
Portrait of Rachel de Souza.
a woman wearing a red sweater and a grey shirt smiles for the camera
a man in a suit and blue shirt looks at the camera
Headshot of Jason Cowley.
Portrait of Rachel de Souza.
a woman wearing a red sweater and a grey shirt smiles for the camera

Business
Collage of a rugby player holding a trophy, a woman in a black dress, and a woman in a black jacket and blue skirt.
39 UK private schools could be bought by corporate giants

A Swiss investment group, has appointed advisers to explore a sale or market listing of Cognita, which owns dozens of schools
Companies
Headshot of David Smith.
David Smith April has been cruel for firms. But is the outlook for jobs so dire?
a man in a white shirt smiles for the camera
Oliver Shah It’s time to stop kicking the steel industry can down the road
Nick Ephgrave, director of the Serious Fraud Office, in an interview.
SFO to offer deals to firms that come clean on fraud
Companies
DHL Airbus A300-600(F) taking off.
DHL suspends high-value US deliveries amid Trump’s trade war
Companies
Illustration of five men's heads arranged around a central geometric shape.
How Sam Altman was fired and rehired at OpenAI — in five days
Technology
Illustration of women walking on a gold arrow pointing down, with luxury items falling off.
From riches to rags: is luxury falling out of fashion?
Companies
Nick Ephgrave, director of the Serious Fraud Office, in an interview.
SFO to offer deals to firms that come clean on fraud
Companies
DHL Airbus A300-600(F) taking off.
DHL suspends high-value US deliveries amid Trump’s trade war
Companies
Illustration of five men's heads arranged around a central geometric shape.
How Sam Altman was fired and rehired at OpenAI — in five days
Technology
Illustration of women walking on a gold arrow pointing down, with luxury items falling off.
From riches to rags: is luxury falling out of fashion?
Companies
Headshot of David Smith.
David Smith April has been cruel for firms. But is the outlook for jobs so dire?
a man in a white shirt smiles for the camera
Oliver Shah It’s time to stop kicking the steel industry can down the road

Sport
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Ollie Watkins of Aston Villa celebrates scoring a goal.
JONATHAN NORTHCROFT
‘Fuming’ Watkins’ response is just what Emery would have wanted

Aston Villa 4 Newcastle 1: Striker excels on return to starting XI after being left out for Champions League quarter-final against PSG
Football
a man with a beard wearing a suit and tie
COMMENT
MARTIN SAMUEL
Men who hired Maresca should share blame for weaker, duller Chelsea
Football
Conor Benn and Nigel Benn laughing by a pool.
INTERVIEW
Nigel Benn: Conor takes the mickey but 18.5 million watched me fight Eubank
Boxing
Portrait of Graham Thorpe wearing a cricket helmet.
Amanda Thorpe: Some say suicide is selfish but Graham tried so hard to beat his depression
Cricket
Lando Norris's McLaren Formula 1 car being lifted after a crash.
SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX
‘F***ing idiot’ — Norris to start tenth after crashing under pressure
Formula 1
Rory McIlroy and Nick Faldo at the Faldo Junior Series awards ceremony.
INTERVIEW
Faldo: Rory has done way more than me — I’d put him fifth in the all-time greats
Golf
Illustration of three cricket bats.
SIMON WILDE
Big bat clampdown gets personal — and how batsmen are trying to swerve it
Cricket
Portrait of Graham Thorpe wearing a cricket helmet.
Amanda Thorpe: Some say suicide is selfish but Graham tried so hard to beat his depression
Cricket
Lando Norris's McLaren Formula 1 car being lifted after a crash.
SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX
‘F***ing idiot’ — Norris to start tenth after crashing under pressure
Formula 1
Rory McIlroy and Nick Faldo at the Faldo Junior Series awards ceremony.
INTERVIEW
Faldo: Rory has done way more than me — I’d put him fifth in the all-time greats
Golf
Illustration of three cricket bats.
SIMON WILDE
Big bat clampdown gets personal — and how batsmen are trying to swerve it
Cricket
a man with a beard wearing a suit and tie
COMMENT
MARTIN SAMUEL
Men who hired Maresca should share blame for weaker, duller Chelsea
Football
Conor Benn and Nigel Benn laughing by a pool.
INTERVIEW
Nigel Benn: Conor takes the mickey but 18.5 million watched me fight Eubank
Boxing

Life & Style
A black Ford Mustang parked in front of a stone building, with Jeremy Clarkson standing beside it.
REVIEW
The Clarkson Review: the Ford Mustang is childish and irresponsible, like me

‘I really did like the Dark Horse. It reignited the desire I’ve had for 60 years to own a Mustang’
Driving
a man with his arms crossed is wearing a grey shirt
Matt Rudd My dog, my wife or a £70,000 pay rise? Tricky
Illustration of a restaurant interior with patrons dining and a server carrying a dish.
Charlotte Ivers Wilsons, Bristol review: ‘Everything is delightful’
Hands holding a container of vanilla whey protein powder and a scoop.
Do protein powders work — or are they an ultraprocessed fad?
Health & Fitness
P. Diddy at his 6th annual White Party.
IN DEPTH
The downfall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs — by those who knew him
The Sunday Times Magazine
Sign marking Pears' Allotment; trespassers will be composted.
Should all housing developments come with allotments?
Property & Home
Woman displaying handwoven textiles.
Why I’ve been speed dating sheep farmers
Property & Home
Hands holding a container of vanilla whey protein powder and a scoop.
Do protein powders work — or are they an ultraprocessed fad?
Health & Fitness
P. Diddy at his 6th annual White Party.
IN DEPTH
The downfall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs — by those who knew him
The Sunday Times Magazine
Sign marking Pears' Allotment; trespassers will be composted.
Should all housing developments come with allotments?
Property & Home
Woman displaying handwoven textiles.
Why I’ve been speed dating sheep farmers
Property & Home
a man with his arms crossed is wearing a grey shirt
Matt Rudd My dog, my wife or a £70,000 pay rise? Tricky
Illustration of a restaurant interior with patrons dining and a server carrying a dish.
Charlotte Ivers Wilsons, Bristol review: ‘Everything is delightful’

Culture
Dermot O'Leary sitting on a suitcase.
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
Dermot O’Leary: ‘We’d make The X Factor differently today’

The talent show host turned TV everyman on Liam Payne, avoiding hangovers and getting political on the This Morning sofa
TV & Radio
Aerial view of a destroyed theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, with the word
REVIEW
UKRAINE
Donbas: land of coal, steel and blood
Books
Collage of thriller book covers.
REVIEW
Great new crime fiction — our critics’ top books
Books
Self-portrait of J.M.W. Turner at age 24.
EXPLAINER
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK
Why Turner was a cussed and creepy genius
Art
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day.
REVIEW
FASHION
Fashion in the 1940s? Make do and mend unless you’re a princess
Books
Key art of a group of backpackers in a neon-lit Chinese city at night.
UPDATED
VIEWING GUIDE
What to watch on TV this week — Race Across the World and more
TV & Radio
Woman sitting on a couch.
INTERVIEW
Meet Emily Henry, the author who’s written five bestsellers in five years
Books
Self-portrait of J.M.W. Turner at age 24.
EXPLAINER
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK
Why Turner was a cussed and creepy genius
Art
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day.
REVIEW
FASHION
Fashion in the 1940s? Make do and mend unless you’re a princess
Books
Key art of a group of backpackers in a neon-lit Chinese city at night.
UPDATED
VIEWING GUIDE
What to watch on TV this week — Race Across the World and more
TV & Radio
Woman sitting on a couch.
INTERVIEW
Meet Emily Henry, the author who’s written five bestsellers in five years
Books
Aerial view of a destroyed theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, with the word
REVIEW
UKRAINE
Donbas: land of coal, steel and blood
Books
Collage of thriller book covers.
REVIEW
Great new crime fiction — our critics’ top books
Books
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Travel
Chateau Buera winery in a vineyard.
Why you’ll love Europe’s oldest wine region — with new direct flights

In Kakheti, just a two-hour drive from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, oenophiles can sip in style with 500 grape varieties, a luxury hotel and plenty of opportunities for feasting
A woman and child lie on sleeping bags in a museum space gallery, pointing at space artifacts.
The secret to spending a night in space — without leaving London
London
Aerial view of Cape Panwa Hotel in Phuket, Thailand.
12 of the best last-minute holiday deals, from the Cotswolds to Campania
Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
This new rail pass is your ticket to Spain’s most exciting cities
Spain
Aerial view of the MSC World America cruise ship sailing at sunset.
What it’s like on board one of the world’s biggest cruise ships
Cruises
Woman on tropical beach with hammock.
MY HOLS
Liza Goddard: ‘My dad refused to go to Europe because of wartime memories’
Inspiration
Italian garden at Tatton Hall.
Can the ‘Notswolds’ match the Cotswolds as a holiday destination?
England
Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain.
This new rail pass is your ticket to Spain’s most exciting cities
Spain
Aerial view of the MSC World America cruise ship sailing at sunset.
What it’s like on board one of the world’s biggest cruise ships
Cruises
Woman on tropical beach with hammock.
MY HOLS
Liza Goddard: ‘My dad refused to go to Europe because of wartime memories’
Inspiration
Italian garden at Tatton Hall.
Can the ‘Notswolds’ match the Cotswolds as a holiday destination?
England
A woman and child lie on sleeping bags in a museum space gallery, pointing at space artifacts.
The secret to spending a night in space — without leaving London
London
Aerial view of Cape Panwa Hotel in Phuket, Thailand.
12 of the best last-minute holiday deals, from the Cotswolds to Campania

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