Rugby World Cup 2023

The Six Nations are set to be split over the election of World Rugby’s new chairman with the RFU understood to be among the major unions supportive of Brett...

With a neat sense of timing, the England Under-20 front row delivered a statement performance last Sunday to beat Ireland in the semi-final of the World Rugby...

As rancour and resentment, uncertainty and unsteadiness, continue to blow through American politics, a rare united front was presented inside the Capitol...

This feels like a new beginning for Irish rugby, with Caelan Doris taking over the captaincy of the national team from Peter O’Mahony in what will surely...

England have sought clarity from World Rugby about New Zealand’s scrummaging before the second Test at Eden Park, after Ethan de Groot was criticised by...

You have to feel for any of the delegates at this week’s 75th anniversary Nato summit in Washington DC who stepped out for a breath of air around Capitol Hill...

A whole Saturday glued to the sofa and it’s not my fault. After far too much politics (I stayed up for Liz Truss and it was worth it), now there’s far too...

There are many clichés about New Zealand and its love for rugby that are simply untrue. The grandmothers who are supposedly ready to heckle Marcus Smith about...

For Nathan Bombrys, the Saturday night Test in Ottawa will be a meeting of past and present, but what really gets this ambitious 49-year-old going is...

For Jack Rowell, the son of a coal-shipping supervisor from West Hartlepool, a place at the University of Oxford in the 1950s was something of a pipe dream. A...