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  • Campaigners celebrate outside the supreme court on Wednesday.

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    Gender ruling ‘a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise trans people exist’, says equalities watchdog – live

  • For Women Scotland members speaking to the media after the supreme court’s ruling on Wednesday.

    New rules for public bodies expected ‘by summer’ after UK gender ruling

    Equalities watchdog chair says code of practice will give clarity and adds trans people’s rights ‘must be respected’
  • A Yodel van making a delivery in Cornwall

    Polish parcel locker network InPost buys UK delivery firm Yodel for £106m

    Deal will create third largest independent delivery business serving online retailers in Britain

  • Sainsbury’s joins UK retailers’ £1bn profits club but warns of flat year ahead

  • US officials to meet European leaders in Paris to discuss Ukraine war

  • A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

  • GPs in England will be able to claim £20 for every time patient is not sent to hospital

  • Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia

  • Ministers in ‘active conversation’ with UK drug firms over potential tariffs

  • Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system

UK politics

  • Gideon Sa'ar speaks as he stands behind a lectern

    Israeli minister met David Lammy on ‘private’ visit to UK, Foreign Office says

  • Women with placards and T-shirts bearing campaign slogans, such as 'No man can be a lesbian'

    Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules

    • UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

    • Labour select committee chairs call for parliament to vote on trade deal with US

    • UK in talks with France about deal to swap people seeking asylum

    • Jail term of Luton triple-murderer to be reviewed after MP’s referral

    • Reeves says inflation fall shows ‘plan for change is working’ – as it happened

    • China accuses UK politicians of ‘arrogance’ in British Steel row

Analysis and explainers

  • Smiling women hold a campaign banner outside the UK supreme court building

    Judicial ruling on legal definition of ‘woman’ will have UK politicians sighing with relief

  • Women smile and raise glasses in front of the UK supreme court building

    What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean?

  • Nigel Farage speaking on stage

    Nigel Farage and the unions: Reform leader walks line between friend and foe

  • The Bank of England with tulips in the City of London financial district

    Good news on UK inflation may be short-lived amid trade war and rising household bills

Culture

  • Spotify logo

    Spotify running again after users around world report problems

  • A letter by Bram Stoker shortly after Dracula was published

    Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula

    ‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897
  • Copies of a book about murderer William Corder’s trial, believed to be bound in his skin.

    Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

    The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skin

  • Warwick Davis’s wife died as hospital planned to discharge her, inquest finds

  • Sony hikes PlayStation 5 price by 25% as Trump tariffs bite

  • White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood condemns SNL’s ‘mean and unfunny’ sketch

  • Mickey Rourke ejected from Big Brother house over ‘unacceptable behaviour’

Education

  • Three public school boys wearing tails, with their backs toward the camera

    Wealthiest English private schools spend below 6% on means-tested bursaries, research finds

  • Daniel Kebede.

    Reform UK a ‘far-right and racist party’, says largest teaching union

  • A stressed teacher marking work at a desk behind two piles of educational books

    Stress taking ‘immense toll’ on teachers in England as union debates industrial action

  • An aerial view of Cambridge University looking north to Trinity College and St John's College chapel tower

    Cambridge University accused of bullying ‘cover-up’ as internal survey revealed

Society

  • (From left) Lanre Haastrup, the father of Isaiah Haastrup, and Rashid and Aliya Abbasi, the parents of Zainab Abbasi, holding up photos of their children

    Doctors in end-of-life cases of two UK children can be named, court rules

  • Activists celebrate after hearing the outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling on how to define a ‘woman’.

    UK supreme court ruling on legal definition of woman ‘brings clarity and confidence’, says government – as it happened

    • Harriet Cross, the Tory MP for Gordon and Buchan, speaks in the House of Commons

      ‘Romeo and Juliet’ clause exempts consensual teenage relationships from child abuse reporting in England

    • In his letter, Martin Hibbert said: ‘Right now, it feels like you’ve forgotten us.’

      Manchester bomb survivor: jail attack represents ‘catastrophic failure of duty’

    • An ad saying Black Friday: BBL, Hip dip, breast, and then a list of prices

      ASA bans Brazilian liquid butt lift ads from six UK cosmetic treatment providers

Multimedia

  • The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe

    What’s next for British Steel? – Politics Weekly UK

  • Penitents line a street carrying candles and crucifixes

    A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold: photos of the day – Wednesday

    • UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – video

    • Federal agents tackling a man to the ground, as a fallen bystander lies in pain

      Taxi drivers, a tackle and a cowboy: photos of the day – Tuesday

    • People covered in brightly coloured objects are splashed with water during a street parade

      A street parade and a drone attack: photos of the day – Monday

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