weekend essay

Why feminists fell out of love Mankeeping spells the death of intimacy

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

10 mins

25 Oct


weekend dispatch

Dominic Cummings’ new nerd army Britain’s Young Turks are looking for growth

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

25 Oct


patriotism

Ireland can’t escape Big Daddy Authority is still associated with England

Lucy Sweeney Byrne

7 mins

25 Oct


anti-vax

The toxic cult of Andrew Wakefield The disgraced doctor has found a new audience

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Oct


geopolitics

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

6 mins

23 Oct

New Left

The Green Party’s shallow revolution Polanski will usher in Farageism

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

24 Oct

Latin America

Trump is coming for Venezuela He’s embraced a Neo-Monroe Doctrine

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

24 Oct


Culture

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

Plutocracy

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct


Louvre Heist

How the elites stole France The theft is the pinnacle of their complacency

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

5 mins

22 Oct


New Left

The Green Party’s shallow revolution Polanski will usher in Farageism

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

24 Oct

Culture

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

Latin America

Trump is coming for Venezuela He’s embraced a Neo-Monroe Doctrine

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

24 Oct


Plutocracy

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

review

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters Cinema doesn’t need to be serious

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

Our Mission

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Dispatch

The rising violence of Irish rebellion A volatile politics is taking to the streets

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

22 Oct


Vibe shift

The progressive mindset has won We all think history is on our side

Ben Cobley

Ben Cobley

5 mins

23 Oct

populism

Meet Japan’s Iron Lady Sanae Takaichi is polarising the nation

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct


Television

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

Economics

Will Rachel Reeves tackle the Bank? Its powers are undemocratic

Leah Downey

Leah Downey

7 mins

23 Oct

Patriotism

The Battle of Hastings isn’t over Brits still ache for Anglo-Saxon England

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

bureaucracy

How HR strangled Whitehall Civil servants waste time on trivialities

Ioan Phillips

Ioan Phillips

6 mins

21 Oct


75 years on

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct

Dispatch

What are Britain’s biohackers so afraid of? They crave control in a disordered world

Fin Carter

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct


dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

review

On Jeffrey Epstein and the Marquis de Sade Pitiless libertinism is corrupting the West

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

21 Oct


belief system

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct

premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct


Technology

MAGA’s Dark Abundance mission Will the movement take off?

Tom Ough

Tom Ough

8 mins

22 Oct

Protests

Trump wants a war with blue cities And Chicago might give him one

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

Movies

The family values of the radical Left Two films display stolen virtue

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek

8 mins

20 Oct


monoculture

The last days of poptimism The new stars are old-school cool

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct

Religion

Christian nationalism’s godless heart The West is more important than faith

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct


zionism

The splintering of British Jews The community is divided

David Rose

David Rose

9 mins

21 Oct

flags

Nationalism has claimed the Valleys South Wales has been abandoned by Labour

Brad Evans

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct

Finance

The fall of the crypto-oligarchs The Bitcoin time bomb is ticking

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

20 Oct


Review

The humiliation of PG Wodehouse His genius can’t be reduced to IP

Sam Leith

Sam Leith

4 mins

6 Oct

bond markets

It’s still the economy, stupid Labour has a fatal blindspot

James Meadway

James Meadway

5 mins

3 Oct


30 years on

How Bill Bryson hoodwinked England We deserve more than twee nostalgia

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

7 mins

21 Oct

drugs

Why are kids snorting pink cocaine? It’s perfect for the Instagram generation

Max Daly

Max Daly

7 mins

2 Oct

Justice

The Kazakh oligarch who fooled Britain The UK is a haven for foreign tycoons

Mark Hollingsworth

Mark Hollingsworth

5 mins

19 Oct


25 years on

Who killed the East End mobster? Gangsterism couldn’t survive globalisation

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

5 mins

1 Oct

Philosophy

How Evil is normalised It is not enough to avert one’s eyes

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

6 mins

30 Sep


peace plan

Will Israel’s hardliners win? The nation must choose between two futures

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

9 mins

20 Oct

Culture

Literary biographies are on life support Who cares about Tennyson today?

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

29 Sep

Literature

John Boyne refuses to be cancelled Britain’s literati betrayed him

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

5 mins

26 Sep

Middle East

Syria’s future is sectarian Religious minorities feel threatened

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

8 mins

25 Sep


by-election

Caerphilly is crumbling to Reform The town has lost all hope

Brad Evans

Brad Evans

5 mins

20 Oct

Renewables

Donald Trump’s war on wind He is out for revenge

Alexander Nazaryan

Alexander Nazaryan

5 mins

24 Sep

Gender Wars

The future of feminism is childcare Focus on the work-motherhood conflict

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

23 Sep


DPRK

Could a woman rule North Korea? Kim Jong Un’s daughter could be next in line

Elizabeth Norton

Elizabeth Norton

6 mins

22 Sep

Spy Scandal

Westminster’s China blind spot Elite hypocrisy has led to meltdown

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

5 mins

17 Oct


Data centre

Can Big Tech save Northumberland? Don’t expect a second coal boom

Dan Jackson

Dan Jackson

5 mins

19 Sep