One day, says Sonia Sodha in The Observer, we may look back and wonder how so many institutions came to be dominated by the “regressive and controversial” world view that being a woman is not a scientific fact but an “inner feeling”. Thankfully the tide seems to be turning. Last week, an employment tribunal found that the human rights barrister Allison Bailey had been “victimised” by her bosses for criticising gender ideology. She was investigated for calling out the concept of the “cotton ceiling”, the absurd view that lesbians who don’t date trans women are “transphobic”. Quite rightly, Bailey was awarded “aggravated damages”, meaning her employer behaved “particularly egregiously”.

There is more than the usual “air of unreality” about the leadership debates, says Juliet Samuel in The Daily Telegraph. While Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak stand on stage “blaming one another” for the coming recession, Vladimir Putin – “the real culprit” – is playing havoc with Europe’s energy markets. Whether or not he keeps gas flowing into our homes is “the only question that matters” for the millions who’ll struggle to pay their bills this winter. Instead, “the BBC wants to talk about Mr Sunak’s shoes”.