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Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism

Mary Harrington

Dispatch 4h

My night with Romania’s defeated populists

The upset to the country’s political class is unlikely to be resolved any time soon.

Aris Roussinos

Debate 6h

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call

Jennifer Kavanagh

Sunday, May 18thSunday
May 18^th

Analysis 17:00

Moody’s US credit rating downgrade has spooked investors

John Rapley

Saturday, May 17thSaturday
May 17^th

Analysis 17:00

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Wolfgang Munchau

Debate 13:00

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe?

Calls are growing to get Russian gas back as quickly as possible.

Katja Hoyer

Reaction 08:00

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs

Mike Jones

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Flyover country

Trump’s rural voters know what they’re doing Sneering only widens the divide

Nicholas F. Jacobs

5 mins

Starmer’s ‘EU reset’ is a fairytale There will be no sunny uplands

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

19 May

The Charedi have a woman problem Yehudis Fletcher is fighting from within

Julie Bindel

6 mins

19 May

Starmer’s ‘EU reset’ is a fairytale There will be no sunny uplands

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

19 May

The Charedi have a woman problem Yehudis Fletcher is fighting from within

Julie Bindel

6 mins

19 May

Starmer’s ‘EU reset’ is a fairytale There will be no sunny uplands

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

19 May

The Charedi have a woman problem Yehudis Fletcher is fighting from within

Julie Bindel

6 mins

19 May

From the UK edition

Reaction9h

Donald Tusk is powerless to stop Poland’s Right-wing wave

Michal Kranz

Explainer18 May

New report exposes fallacy of UK Net Zero target

Labour’s hopes of economic growth cannot be achieved while the UK has such high energy prices.

David Rose

Reaction18 May

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue

Henry Hill

Debate16 May

Is the NHS caving to pressure over trans clinic age limits?

A child’s rejection of gender norms should not be used to validate misogynistic fantasies.

Victoria Smith

Reaction16 May

Do Labour MPs really support Starmer’s immigration crackdown?

Angus Reilly

Analysis15 May

Assisted dying bill is crumbling under late amendments

Joan Smith

Reaction15 May

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story

There was nothing of the insensitive hack about him: he did the work because he cared.

Julie Bindel

Analysis14 May

Scotland’s assisted dying vote guarantees nothing

Jamie Gillies

Reaction13 May

Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work

Iain Macwhirter

Debate13 May

The NEU has abandoned women — and the law

Josephine Bartosch

Organised Crime

The old-school horror of Scotland’s gangs Police have turned a blind eye

Dominic Adler

6 mins

Investigation

How Islamism infiltrated Downing Street

David Rose

12 mins

dignity

Whose right is it anyway?

Neil LaBute

5 mins

Kneecap

How Ireland fetishizes history

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Watch & listen

Watch & Listen

Aris RoussinosThe View from Romania

Andrew KlavanThe west loves true crime

Emily JashinskyJake Tapper’s Biden confession

Sohrab AhmariPope Leo versus the populists

Emily JashinskyTrump takes on the neocons

Politics

19.05 2025

My night with Romania’s defeated populists

19.05 2025

Donald Tusk is powerless to stop Poland’s Right-wing wave

18.05 2025

Moody’s US credit rating downgrade has spooked investors

Starmer’s ‘EU reset’ is a fairytale

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Trump’s new world disorder

Helen Thompson

6 mins

Aris RoussinosThe View from Romania

Friday, May 16thFriday
May 16^th

Analysis 19:00

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI

John Murawski

Online 16:15

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ glitch: a cautionary tale for AI’s future

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:00

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

Bethany Elliott

Thursday, May 15thThursday
May 15^th

Analysis 19:00

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Michael Baharaeen

Explainer 10:00

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters

Joel Kotkin

Debate 07:00

Are we over-medicalising neurodivergence?

Kristina Murkett

The Pope versus the populists Can there be reconciliation?

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

17 May

Japan’s humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Oliver Jia

5 mins

21 Mar

critical thinking

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

12 Mar

Peter HitchensThe case for the death penalty

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Weekend Spotlight

Everton are the real Scousers Who are we without Goodison Park?

Despotic Inroad

6 mins

17 May

Frank Zappa: America’s last rebel The old music gods are cashing out

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

17 Feb

Our Mission

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Mission Statement

Weekend Analysis

Trump’s new world disorder America is heading for a default

Helen Thompson

6 mins

17 May

Wednesday, May 14thWednesday
May 14^th

Reaction 20:30

David Hogg saga exposes fecklessness of Democrats

Malcom Kyeyune

Debate 17:15

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

Peter Franklin

Explainer 13:20

Trump’s Middle East tour seals end of Opec

Ralph Schoellhammer

Reaction 11:15

Pfizergate ruling increases pressure on Ursula von der Leyen

The Commission’s violations appear to have been simply too blatant to overlook.

Thomas Fazi

Analysis 07:00

Scotland’s assisted dying vote guarantees nothing

Jamie Gillies

How YouTube forged the online Right Its polemicists radicalized a generation

Gavin Haynes

6 mins

14 Feb

Astrology’s predictable popularity We want to be told how to live our lives

Abi Millar

4 mins

10 Feb

Emily JashinskyIs Trump winning the trade war?

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Virgin Island’s humiliation kink TV execs are manipulative libertines

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

16 May

The folly of a British Silicon Valley Starmerism is suffocating its progress

Travis Aaroe

5 mins

7 Feb

Culture

08.05 2025

Times Square statue is a relic of the BLM era

07.05 2025

Mr Beast’s new book will turn literature into clickbait

06.05 2025

Artists afraid to speak freely, report finds

Everton are the real Scousers

Despotic Inroad

6 mins

ADHD medicine has failed boys

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Arrested for praying: The free speech row

Tuesday, May 13thTuesday
May 13^th

Debate 21:00

Jake Tapper is wrong: Biden was declining long before 2024

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 19:30

Ruben Gallego launches centrist challenge inside Democratic Party

Michael Cuenco

Reaction 15:30

Why is Josh Hawley the only Republican defending Medicaid?

Sohrab Ahmari

Monday, May 12thMonday
May 12^th

Analysis 19:00

A Putin-Zelensky meeting is long overdue

It won’t end the war overnight, but it could restart the only serious path to peace.

Anatol Lieven

Explainer 10:50

China tariffs deal could backfire on Trump

Jennifer Kavanagh

How ADHD medicine failed boys Stop blaming the kids

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

15 May

new world order

Europe is clinging to yesterday Donald Trump will bring down the coalition of centrists

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

20 Jan

Annexation has always haunted Canada The ghosts of 1911 are not far away

Michael Ledger-Lomas

5 mins

10 Jan

Emily JashinskyBiden-Harris makes a comeback

The rise of the multipolar world order

These Times

The new age of shamanism Westerners pray for riches and renewal

Matt Rowland Hill

7 mins

16 May

Why Iran needs foreign journalists They pile pressure on a corrupt regime

Kourosh Ziabari

4 mins

10 Jan

Science

16.05 2025

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ glitch: a cautionary tale for AI’s future

15.05 2025

Are we over-medicalising neurodivergence?

11.05 2025

Tariffs alone won’t save US pharma

Blackouts are coming for Britain

Wessie du Toit

7 mins

Britain must keep making stuff

Tim Minshall

6 mins

Dr. Suzanne O'SullivanThe “over-diagnosis” crisis

The fading American police officer Underpolicing is a social-justice problem

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

14 May

Sunday, May 11thSunday
May 11^th

Debate 20:00

Labour and Tories are losing the immigration argument

Tom Jones

Explainer 16:00

Tariffs alone won’t save US pharma

Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski

Analysis 13:00

Stephen Miller’s dangerous plan to suspend habeas corpus

Kyle Sammin

Reaction 08:00

Where are Britain’s Left-wing protectionists?

Richard Johnson

Saturday, May 10thSaturday
May 10^th

Reaction 19:00

Trump may recognise a Palestinian state

Trump is prioritising the Sunni Arab monarchies and his own ambitions over Netanyahu's.

Tom Rogan

Factcheck 13:00

Is the EU basing policy on flawed sexual assault data?

Ivar Arpi

Analysis 08:00

Can Nigel Farage’s deportation plan succeed?

Farage must avoid the trap: we don’t need another referendum sideshow.

Mike Jones

How the Left betrayed Charlie Hebdo They put piety over progress

Andrew Hussey

7 mins

7 Jan

The dangerous aesthetic of psych-ward TikTok Mental illness is becoming an accessory

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

7 Jan

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau: Why Europe will lose the trade war

Trump’s Economic Revolution

These Times

Art of the deal

Trump’s Syrian gamble America is looking for an exit plan

Lily Lynch

5 mins

15 May

What I learned at Terf School Some 'feminists' prefer abuse to analysis

Julie Bindel

5 mins

6 Jan

Faith

19.05 2025

Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism

14.05 2025

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

09.05 2025

Pope Leo XIV heralds a renewal of Catholic social justice

The Charedi have a woman problem

Julie Bindel

6 mins

The Pope versus the populists

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

Richard Dawkins vs Ayaan Hirsi AliThe God Debate

Friday, May 9thFriday
May 9^th

Debate 20:00

Trump’s trans military ban goes too far

Lisa Selin Davis

Explainer 18:00

Trump should not shy away from taxing the rich

Republicans need to keep populist priorities in mind.

Fred Bauer

Debate 16:00

The EU will suffer in any US trade deal

Wolfgang Munchau

Reaction 13:00

Tesla has bigger worries than boycotts

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:30

Is the UK-US deal a blip in the global trade war?

John Rapley

Reaction 07:00

Pope Leo XIV heralds a renewal of Catholic social justice

Sohrab Ahmari

New York’s euthanasia bill targets me Suicide-by-doctor cheapens disabled lives

Dovie Eisner

6 mins

14 May

power struggles

The new Sino-Indian War British historians have been appropriated by nationalists

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

2 Jan

Is the Tradwife just a kink? Don't underestimate the happy housewife's power

Poppy Sowerby

7 mins

1 Jan

Robby SoaveShiloh Hendrix and the Woke Right

The Wars for Ukraine’s Resources

These Times

America’s puritans are back Is there a moral panic around alcohol?

Adrian Nathan West

5 mins

15 May

On choking during sex Why are young women drawn to destruction?

Mary Gaitskill

8 mins

31 Dec

War

19.05 2025

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call

17.05 2025

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe?

16.05 2025

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

Why Erdogan can’t crush the Kurds

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

America is turning on Israel

Rajan Menon

6 mins

Andrew OrlowskiLebanon pager attacks are just the beginning

Why Marx is back in fashion Tycoons, tariffs, and empire all over again

Ben Burgis

8 mins

13 May

Thursday, May 8thThursday
May 8^th

Analysis 18:30

Trump is losing ground — and still beating Democrats

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 16:20

Xi-Putin meeting complicates Trump’s ‘Reverse Nixon’ strategy

The two leaders will be eager to demonstrate that they are economically beyond America’s control.

Bethany Elliott

Debate 13:00

Times Square statue is a relic of the BLM era

Oliver Bateman

Explainer 10:00

India strikes are dividing Nato

Hardeep Singh

Analysis 07:00

French Left is paving the way for a Bardella presidency

Peter Franklin

From The Archive

California leaves its poor to burn Wildfires have enflamed the state's inequality

Samuel McIlhagga

8 mins

30 Dec

How Trump crushed Obama’s legacy The President-elect rides the cowboy spirit

David Samuels

11 mins

27 Dec

Emily JashinskyCarney passes the Trump test

Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer

These Times

The decline of Ye West His Nazi lyrics sing to online edgelords

Mary Harrington

6 mins

14 May

The mean girls conquering pop They have exiled men from their music

Sarah Ditum

6 mins

26 Dec

Society

16.05 2025

Is the NHS caving to pressure over trans clinic age limits?

15.05 2025

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story

12.05 2025

Why is the police investigating ‘thought crime’ tweets?

The old-school horror of Scotland’s gangs

Dominic Adler

6 mins

Rural Republican voters know what they’re doing

Nicholas F. Jacobs

5 mins

Julie BindelGrooming gangs are still in Britain

Wednesday, May 7thWednesday
May 7^th

Analysis 21:15

Are Republicans about to cave on Medicaid?

Emily Jashinsky

Reaction 15:00

Biden’s BBC interview: an outdated vision of US power

Angus Reilly

Debate 13:15

Mr Beast’s new book will turn literature into clickbait

Matthew Gasda

Tuesday, May 6thTuesday
May 6^th

Analysis 20:00

Mark Carney passes first Trump test

Michael Cuenco

Debate 18:00

Sending more Patriot systems to Ukraine won’t deter Putin

Jennifer Kavanagh

News 12:00

Artists afraid to speak freely, report finds

Max Mitchell

Analysis 10:00

Is Israel about to take permanent control of Gaza?

David Swift

Is stagflation here? Business is losing faith in Trump

Justin H. Vassallo

7 mins

12 May

Why Christmas Eve is date night in Japan The elites are drawn to Christianity

Oliver Jia

5 mins

23 Dec

How Britain ignored its ethnic conflict This year's riots won’t be the last

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

20 Dec

Farzad MesbahiThe case for Elon Musk

Germany: “Independence” from America and Rise of the Far Right

These Times

Why Erdogan can’t crush the Kurds They have always moved with the times

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

14 May

The Turkish Left’s love for Assad Anti-imperialists have only empowered Erdoğan

Kaya Genç

5 mins

18 Dec