Family planning in sports is no longer taboo, but elite female athletes like Kaillie Humphries and Maria Sharapova believe more open conversations should be taking place

The cold sterility of a gynecologist’s office is about as far removed as you can get from a tennis court, a basketball gym, or a bobsled run. The crinkling white paper, the flimsy open-face gown that leaves patients vulnerable and freezing, the intimidating silver instruments laid out neatly on a table – it’s hardly an environment that feels empowering.

Yet some of the highest highs and lowest lows of women’s lives take place in such rooms, just as they do on clay courts, snowy terrain or hardwood floors. It’s no small thing that women’s peak fertility coincides with their peak athletic performance. It’s a cruel twist of fate that just as professional female athletes must begin asking themselves whether they want to have children – and, if so, when and how – they are also focused on pushing their bodies to their limits for as long as possible.

Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobody

Is Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. In which case is Donald Trump another Neville Chamberlain and Ukraine another Czechoslovakia? Is history bunk, or is it a wise old man leaning on the gate as Europe storms into its latest crisis?

Godwin’s law holds that the longer a political argument continues, the nearer it gets to Hitler. This reductio ad Hitlerum distorts the issue under discussion and diminishes the exceptional horror of Hitler and the Holocaust. A variant of Godwin’s law goes further. It asserts that having to call Hitler in aid means that you have already lost the argument.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

Our hero Ethan is contending with a strange kind of cyclical amnesia that makes dealing with the flesh-eating undead a good deal harder

As this highly derivative but mildly absorbing Canadian horror thriller kicks off, we meet Ethan (Douglas Smith), a young man seemingly on the verge of killing himself. He looks out over a picturesque stretch of Saskatchewan landscape bathed in magic-hour glow before we cut to a welter of confusing, often blood-soaked flashbacks (or flashforwards) – and his voiceover then explains that although his memory doesn’t work so well, he’d rather not remember most of his life anyway. That’s because unfortunate Ethan is suffering from a kind of cyclical amnesia, not unlike the disorder that bedevilled Guy Pearce’s character in Memento, which compels him to keep reintroducing himself to people he’s met many times before. This is a particularly dangerous condition to have because Ethan is living in the middle of a zombie apocalypse that’s turned everyone who hasn’t gone full zombie into skittish, trigger-happy survivalists desperately clinging to what little resources they have.

That even goes for Mae (Carrie-Anne Moss, who just so happened to have also been the co-star in Memento), a tough loner living in a secluded farm who seems to have taken Ethan under her wing. Or does she have a more nefarious plan in mind? Moss has one of cinema’s great poker faces, an impenetrability enhanced by those spectacularly sculpted cheekbones, so she’s well cast here as an enigma wrapped in a tattered parka. Ethan keeps telling Mae that he needs to find his girlfriend Emma (Kimberley-Sue Murray) who went missing after they were in a car accident; flashbacks fill in the young couple’s happy life before a virus turned people into human-flesh-eating shadows of their former selves. (These are slow zombies at least, a change from the recent fad for fast-moving brain-munchers like the ones in the 28 Days Later and Last of Us franchises, otherwise heavily referenced here.)

Questions over whether Iain McNicol was within lobbying rules when he wrote to civil servants about company that was paying for his advice

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A Labour peer who served on Keir Starmer’s frontbench wrote to the Treasury on behalf of a cryptocurrency firm that was paying him as an adviser, raising questions about whether this was within the rules.

Iain McNicol, 55, advised the Dubai- and Zurich-based Astra Protocol, a tech startup that launched a cryptocurrency token, which has plunged in value by 99.7% since its peak.

With the app shutting down, we would like to hear what you remember about the internet calling service

After two decades, the internet calling service Skype will be shut down by Microsoft in May. The tech giant says it will focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings.

With the service being synonymous with video calling when it launched, we would like to hear your memories of Skype. What did you think of it when it first started in 2003? What do you remember most about using Skype? For example, was it an invaluable communication tool in your long-distance relationship?

Government to expand coverage of employment rights bill, according to report

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Agency workers will reportedly be included in a ban on “exploitative” zero-hours contracts as part of changes to the UK government’s employment bill.

Under the new rules, employers will have to offer agency workers a contract that guarantees a minimum number of hours every week, the BBC reported.