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The Six Nations is no place for the weak or the meek. Particularly not on a frantic Friday evening in Paris when Wales, last year’s wooden spoonists, have to enter the bubbling cauldron of the Stade de France. The pumped-up hosts will be scenting dragon’s blood and the task awaiting …

Andrew Moss despairs, even now, when he thinks back to the end of January 2020. It was a painful, traumatic time for anyone building an export business in the UK.

On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of ­international concern. The ­following day, the …

Two decades and 0.2C of global warming after a Labour government last weighed in on Heathrow, the answer appears the same: keep digging. Rachel Reeves’s

anticipated backing for a third runway

For 21 long winters,

Britain’s loneliest bat

The male greater mouse-eared bat (

Myotis myotis

They are the bedrock of the internet, keeping everything from TikTok to emergency services, business, banking systems and political and military communications running smoothly.

But deep under the sea, the network of cables around British and Irish shores are being considered as increasingly attractive targets for military, terrorist or criminal …

It was a disaster that killed about 1 million people, devastating 19th century Ireland, but while the potato disease linked to the Irish famine is well known, a battle has raged over where it originated.

Scientists have long been divided over whether the fungus-like pathogen

Phtytophthora infestans

“Alexander” has a secret: he listens to someone online and fears that – if this were to become public knowledge – he could lose his job. Friendships too.

Alexander is not listening to the whispers of a radical Islamist or pre-millenarian preacher, nor the ranting of neo-Nazis on the dark …

Lead, pesticides and potentially harmful bacteria were among the contaminants found during an investigation into cannabis sold in semi-legal “coffee shops” in the Netherlands.

The

research

Good morning. The debate over Heathrow airport’s expansion has rumbled on for decades, repeatedly derailed by legal challenges, shifts in government policy, and, of course, a global pandemic.

Now, the issue has resurfaced,

propelled by the chancellor

The number of children and young people in England with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria recorded by a GP has risen fiftyfold over 10 years, researchers have found, though numbers are still relatively small.

The growing number of birth-registered females seeking referrals to gender clinics has raised concerns in recent …