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The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday ...

I am, like millions of others, dutifully fasting from dawn to dusk this month. My faith does not define me. It refines me, says Nazir Afzal, chancellor of the University of Manchester ...

The latest rush of docudramas seems to suggest that anyone in the public eye must expect a degree of intrusion. But where does that end, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins ...

Forgetting the history of this term suggests alignment between past and present PMs at a desperately inopportune time ...

I overheard the news from Clarke Gayford on a dancefloor at 2am. I'm thrilled for our former first couple ...

The UK, like many other countries, has a falling birthrate. But Danny Kruger's perverse 1970s-style policies offer nothing to mothers-to-be, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...

The nail-biting Gorton and Denton byelection has shown the cracks in first past the post. I still don't think proportional representation is the answer, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff ...

A giant bamboo grove had completely blocked our light - but with the right help, no problem is insurmountable ...

While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want out ...

Populists blame an ever-expanding list of enemies for social ills - many of which are in fact caused by changes in our habits and social norms, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett ...