Valérie Pécresse may pose a bigger threat to Macron than Éric Zemmour
I've never believed a word she's written
Jacinda Ardern risks enflaming civil unrest
Covid has been a revelation and an accelerant
Investors look at the vulnerable and see profit
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He is more interested in being himself than president
Pro-choice activists are failing the vulnerable
Religion is the only thing that can penetrate his bluster
Science can't be above questioning
There's nothing principled about its rejection of the death penalty
Today's bright young things are too wet for a scrap
A new breed of politicians wants working-class votes
Why is he is one of Kagame's most dogged defenders?
we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas
Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention
Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer and philosopher about the widening divide
We investigate the right-wing polemicist running for the French presidency
We visit Vienna to explore the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated
How one parent-protester took on Critical Race Theory and won
The Party is struggling to channel anti-government discontent
Debates over 'xenobots' and abortion are making it harder to know what is human
Some donors are applying pressure — but others are fighting back
An unchallenged bill on 'trans inclusivity' could threaten single-sex spaces
Managers wasted billions on buying capacity in private hospitals
The EU has no power to implement, let alone enforce, such a policy
The EU has ruled that it will suspend access for at least six months
The Federal Reserve can't keep using Covid as an excuse
It turns out that people are a useful component in matchmaking
The company's privacy update is open to abuse
The bias towards shutting borders is not as wise as people think
Perhaps the delegates at COP26 are asking all the wrong questions
Climate activists are an insult to democracy
As a gardener, I see portents of doom everywhere
All it took was the end of the world
Attempts to stop warming will backfire dangerously
The hysterical headlines are based on an unlikely scenario
China's leader is a closet environmentalist
The Tories will destroy the countryside — not save the planet
Retrograde Tories have turned the environment into a culture war
Putin's elites will do anything to stay in power
The US could learn from Japan's civil war
He uses my work to pour scorn on the Left
Naked geopolitical ambition now trumps human rights
Consent is no protection from evil grooming gangs
Very little has changed since the murder of Sarah Everard
The current narrative forgets one thing: 'Rape Culture' isn't confined to private schools
A locker-room culture has long been pervasive among officers in the force
The Sarah Everard protests were more about symbolic action than political change
The Sarah Everard vigil could have been a moment to show solidarity and promise reform