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Analysis 17:00

Analysis

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China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Wolfgang Munchau

Debate 13:00

Debate

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

Reaction

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs

Mike Jones

Friday, May 16thFriday
May 16^th

Analysis 19:00

Analysis

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI

John Murawski

Online 16:15

Online

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

Gavin Haynes

Analysis 10:00

Analysis

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

Bethany Elliott

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Weekend Essay

The Pope versus the populists Can there be reconciliation?

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

Weekend Analysis

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

Helen Thompson

6 mins

17 May

Investigation

How Islamism infiltrated Downing Street Sectarianism is affecting policymaking

David Rose

12 mins

16 May

Psychiatry

ADHD medicine has failed boys Stop blaming the kids

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

15 May

Do no harm

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

Dovie Eisner

6 mins

14 May

Psychiatry

ADHD medicine has failed boys Stop blaming the kids

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

15 May

Do no harm

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

Dovie Eisner

6 mins

14 May

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Neil LaBute: Whose right is it anyway?

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

The west loves true crime

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe?

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI

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

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace

The Pope versus the populists Can there be reconciliation?

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

How Islamism infiltrated Downing Street Sectarianism is affecting policymaking

ADHD medicine has failed boys Stop blaming the kids

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

ADHD medicine has failed boys Stop blaming the kids

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

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

Virgin Island’s humiliation kink TV execs are manipulative libertines

From the UK edition

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue

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

Do Labour MPs really support Starmer’s immigration crackdown?

Assisted dying bill is crumbling under late amendments

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story

Scotland’s assisted dying vote guarantees nothing

Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work

The NEU has abandoned women — and the law

Labour’s grip on London weakens as Reform UK surges

Starmer’s immigration plan is a poor Farage tribute act

How Islamism infiltrated Downing Street Sectarianism is affecting policymaking

Whose right is it anyway?

How Ireland fetishizes history

Male authors don’t need your pity

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Politics

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs

Trump’s new world disorder

How Islamism infiltrated Downing Street

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters

Are we over-medicalising neurodivergence?

David Hogg saga exposes fecklessness of Democrats

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

Trump’s Middle East tour seals end of Opec

Pfizergate ruling increases pressure on Ursula von der Leyen

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

Can China rescue the classics? Greek philosophy may be of ideological use

Welcome to the age of Otaku Ghibli memes are just the start

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

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

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

Our Mission

Is stagflation here? Business is losing faith in Trump

Jake Tapper is wrong: Biden was declining long before 2024

Ruben Gallego launches centrist challenge inside Democratic Party

Why is Josh Hawley the only Republican defending Medicaid?

Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work

The NEU has abandoned women — and the law

Labour’s grip on London weakens as Reform UK surges

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

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

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Virgin Island’s humiliation kink TV execs are manipulative libertines

How YouTube forged the online Right Its polemicists radicalized a generation

Culture

Times Square statue is a relic of the BLM era

Mr Beast’s new book will turn literature into clickbait

Artists afraid to speak freely, report finds

Everton are the real Scousers

ADHD medicine has failed boys

A Putin-Zelensky meeting is long overdue

China tariffs deal could backfire on Trump

Tariffs alone won’t save US pharma

Trump may recognise a Palestinian state

DOGE has devoured Musk The MAGA revolution has come for Tesla

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