Will Matt Gaetz survive House Ethics report?

Magdeburg was not a far-Right attack Terrorists increasingly act on grievances that elude any single ideology

Elbridge Colby: the brain behind Trump’s foreign policy The China hawk is lined up for a key Pentagon role

Kazan strike shows Ukraine’s growing boldness

Bethany Elliott

Sunday

22.12

Magdeburg attack puts migration at heart of Germany’s election An establishment silence around the issue has been broken

Michael Bröning

Sadiq Khan is failing Londoners on housing The Mayor has little to show for eight years in office

James Sean Dickson

Peter Mandelson is a canny choice for US ambassador The New Labour grandee can convince Trump of Britain's importance

Saturday

21.12

Magdeburg suspect prompts more questions than answers

Ralph Schoellhammer

EU resorts to Brexit lawfare despite Starmer’s Europe reset The bloc is softening up Britain ahead of a withdrawal agreement

Philip Cunliffe

The Bank of England has turned on Labour’s Budget Central bankers are blaming Starmer and Reeves for rising inflation

Philip Pilkington

Friday

20.12

Government shutdown is a fight for the future of MAGA

Emily Jashinsky

Labour can’t fix Britain’s benefits problem Over half of Britons receive more from the state than they pay in

America is abandoning Syria’s Kurds Turkish troops are gathering on the border as the West turns away

François Bayrou is already causing Macron problems France's new PM remains deeply unpopular

Europe is sabotaging Ukraine by delaying peace talks The West risks leaving Trump and Putin to decide the war's outcome

Thursday

19.12

Have the Never Trumpers admitted defeat?

Will CNN apologise for its Syrian prisoner misinformation? Clarissa Ward represents much of what is wrong with journalism

Labour has broken its promises on single-sex spaces Anneliese Dodds has approved self-ID by the back door

Denmark’s Quran law shows hypocrisy of criticising Iran Outrage at a singer's arrest rings hollow from a country still in fear of blasphemy

Felice Basbøll

Homeschooling wasn’t to blame for Sara Sharif’s murder

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

18.12

Politically divided housing: more proof of American polarisation Real estate platform Oyssey lets homebuyers check their neighbours' voting record

Chinese spy case won’t change Labour’s Beijing policy Keir Starmer must maintain diplomatic ties, despite the sins of Xi Jinping

Judith Butler is no longer a feminist

Wisconsin school shooting: online conspiracies are the new normal Social media sleuths are shaping narratives for their own ends

Justin Trudeau’s own party is pushing him to the brink Canada's embattled PM is clinging on — for now

China’s ‘United Front’ is the centre of a global spy ring

Tuesday

17.12

Donald Trump would be unwise to clamp down on the media Big networks will survive DOGE's cut recommendations

Emily Jashinsky

Turkey and Israel are now the Middle East’s powerbrokers Assad's fall is pushing Europe to appease Erdoğan and Netanyahu

Could Trump create a new monetary system? Treasury secretary pick Scott Bessent has spoken of a global 'realignment'

Philip Pilkington

Why is the SNP spending millions on foreign aid?

Iain Macwhirter

New Ofcom guidance will stifle free speech online Big Tech companies have received an invitation to silence the powerless

Timandra Harkness

Monday

16.12

Luigi Mangione has sparked a healthcare debate in America It shouldn't have taken Brian Thompson's murder for things to change

Trump should ignore hawks and withdraw from Syria Pursuing terrorists does not require occupying the areas in which they operate

Americans are right to be worried about New Jersey drones

Germany’s ‘Dunkelflaute’ is causing an energy crisis in Europe Renewable energy production has caused a price spike on the continent

France’s downgraded credit rating spells trouble for the West Rising interest rates are hampering efforts to rein in deficit spending

Sunday

15.12

Perry Link: another scholar subjected to DEI inquisition US academic's treatment by the University of California looks dispiritingly normal

Is Steven Bartlett finally facing a reckoning?

1 Undershaft: a soulless addition to London’s skyline Eric Parry's skyscraper looks like a data centre

Saturday

14.12

Olaf Scholz’s destructive policies will survive the next election

Ralph Schoellhammer

US government losing public trust over New Jersey drones A failure to be transparent is inviting further scrutiny

Are progressive policies to blame for Scottish school absences? Restorative justice schemes have widened the gap with England

Kristina Murkett

Friday

13.12

MAGA embraces the vaccine-autism theory

Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-Trump turn is good business The Meta CEO recently donated $1 million to the President-elect's inaugural fund

Why did liberals ignore cousin marriage for so long? Fear of offending Muslims trumped female welfare

Ed Miliband’s offshore wind expansion is already doomed Electricity produced in Scotland still can't be used in England

Gaza independents party confirms rise of UK sectarianism

Thursday

12.12

Mitch McConnell’s sad final act Despite his declining health, the senator is still on manoeuvres

Emily Jashinsky

Marc Andreessen: AI has always been a censorship machine The entrepreneur has claimed technology goes hand in hand with political control

70% of US academics fear speaking openly on Israel-Palestine A new FIRE report suggests campus free speech concerns are not overblown

Is Zelensky undercounting Ukraine’s death toll?

Bethany Elliott

Puberty blocker ban is not the end of NHS gender ideology Wes Streeting still has work to do

Josephine Bartosch

Wednesday

11.12

Rand Paul: Tulsi Gabbard is gaining momentum The senator claimed that lawmakers are lining up behind Trump's intelligence pick

English curriculum ‘diversity’ sacrifices great literature A campaign by leading authors should focus on merit, not skin colour

Does Britain really prefer socialism to capitalism? New YouGov polling reveals broad public support for Left-wing ideology

Removing HTS from terrorist list would be a mistake

Britons’ anti-establishment sentiment reaches record high A new report reveals how disillusioned voters have become

Tuesday

10.12

DOGE’s cost-cutting mission may hurt Trump’s voters Elon Musk's brainchild risks introducing austerity by stealth

Syria has reignited Germany’s migration debate

The downfall of PinkNews was a long time coming Allegations of workplace misconduct have been made against CEO Benjamin Cohen

NHS puberty blocker trials are unethical Practitioners have been accused of ignoring safeguards proposed by the Cass Review

Luigi Mangione’s Ivy League background is no surprise

Will the UK send Syrian refugees home? Pausing asylum claims is far from Labour's most difficult decision

Monday

09.12

Daniel Penny acquittal confirms end of BLM era Mass mobilisation around racial justice is no longer a default response

John Mearsheimer: Trump is appointing Russophobic hawks The realist thinker doubts the incoming president can quickly end war in Ukraine

Net Zero drive will leave British Army in ruin

Philip Pilkington

Notre Dame proves the West can build if it wants to Infrastructure projects usually take far longer thanks to the managerial class

Mary Harrington

Keir Starmer’s main threat will come from the Left New polling shows Labour's vulnerability to Green and Lib Dem gains

Sunday

08.12

America’s Christian revival is a response to fractured politics A rise in Bible sales suggests many are finding solace in belief

Spencer A. Klavan

Can Joe Biden fix his death penalty legacy?

Fall of Assad leaves Putin powerless in Middle East Russia is no longer a major player in the region

Reform UK still has a youth problem Young Britons are less convinced by Right-wing politics than Zoomers across the West

Saturday

07.12

University of Michigan’s diversity overhaul won’t defeat DEI

Emily Jashinsky

Are teenage terrorists really on the rise? Prevent referral statistics are exaggerating youth radicalisation

AfD culls radical youth wing as it plots route to power Will this 'de-demonisation' strategy win over the German public?

Ralph Schoellhammer

Friday

06.12

Bitcoin boom could lead to a heavy crash The cryptocurrency rally is showing the signs of a pyramid scheme

Sergey Lavrov: Biden wants to sabotage Trump on Ukraine

Is Keir Starmer really shifting Right on immigration? The PM is just challenging the old Blairite consensus on the movement of people

Sadiq Khan: the last man in Britain to deserve a knighthood There is no metric in London that has improved since the Mayor took charge

Fall of Hama could have dangerous consequences Syrian rebels are connected to jihadist movements

David Patrikarakos

Thursday

05.12

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting exposes America’s class divide

Keir Starmer is taking on the Deep State Today's speech was uncharacteristically populist