Last year was when the “dangers of gender identity ideology” finally crashed into the mainstream, says Jess de Wahls in UnHerd. I was “cancelled” by the Royal Academy of Arts over some supposedly offensive embroidery. London mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted out the “ideological dogma” that “trans women are women, trans men are men… and all gender identities are valid”. Keir Starmer declared that it’s “not right to say that only women have a cervix”. Increasingly, anyone who questions the need for so-called “preferred pronouns” – he/him, they/them, and so on – is branded a bigot or a transphobe. Academics who “dare to acknowledge the biological reality of the sexes” are de-platformed and hounded out of their jobs.

While most eyes are on Russia and China, we should really be watching Iran, says Robin Wright in The New Yorker. Efforts to revive the 2016 nuclear deal abandoned under President Trump – which lifted sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limits on its nuclear programme – have completely stalled. The reformist president who brokered the original deal, Hassan Rouhani, has been replaced by Ebrahim Raisi, a “rigid ideologue” and unashamed hawk. And Iran’s nuclear programme has advanced so much during the diplomatic impasse that soon any deal will be pointless. Its so-called “breakout” time to produce enough fuel for a bomb has plummeted from more than a year to “as little as three weeks”.