Weekend Edition, 4 June 2023

Weekend Essay
Why are teachers striking over slavery?

California's unions prioritise progressivism over fair pay

3 Jun
7 mins
Latest from The Post >
Analysis
18:00

A new BRICS currency is a threat to the West

Competing powers are inching closer to a rival monetary union

| 2 June
Analysis
Why Putin will use nuclear weapons

All the signs suggest Russia has made up its mind

All the signs suggest Russia has made up its mind

2 Jun
6 mins
Opinion
The Oxford kids are alright

Students aren't the source of the culture wars — they're the solution

Students aren't the source of the culture wars — they're the solution

1 Jun
7 mins
Essay
Why Gen Z prefers dogs to babies

Tinder is now selling a childless dream

Tinder is now selling a childless dream

31 May
6 mins
Spotlight
Why is Edward Enninful editing Vogue?

Fawning coverage fails to ask a vital question

Fawning coverage fails to ask a vital question

6 Sep
6 mins
Latest from The Post >
Analysis
18:00

A new BRICS currency is a threat to the West

Competing powers are inching closer to a rival monetary union

| 2 June

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Dominic Sandbrook

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America’s fake bankruptcy crisis

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The collapse of the Leicester dream

The city's decline now feels endemic

30 May
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Opinion

Pride is no place for homosexuals

The gay community has better things to do

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Kylie Minogue’s glorious artifice

We can't insulate ourselves from our mortality

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The false logic of slavery reparations

Modern Americans should not pay for past crimes

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Analysis

Why Ron DeSantis can’t meme

The Online Right has no time for frauds

1 Jun
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What Xi can learn from Tsar Nicholas

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The political dynasty America needs

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Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

 Ukrainian MP: why victory is the only option

Inna Sovsun on drone attacks, censorship and the future of Crimea

 Top French diplomat: the ‘Western moment’ is over

Gérard Araud says that we have entered a multipolar world

 Kathleen Stock: I feel sorry for the students trying to ban me

The philosopher speaks about the confusion of the younger generation

 Robert Kennedy Jr: America needs a revolution

The 2024 outsider on Biden, Ukraine and Covid misinformation

 We need to tell the truth about Crimea

Pretending the peninsula will return to Ukraine is dangerous

Dark Web
16:31

Based or cringe? Matty Healy joins the meme war

Taylor Swift's boyfriend is creating bad blood with his politically incorrect views

| 2 June
Debate
13:30

Don’t trust Keir Starmer’s Brexit metamorphosis

The Labour leader has changed his stance constantly since the referendum

| 2 June
Reaction
11:30

The violence in Kosovo could embolden Putin

Tensions between Serbs and Albanians have invited a swift US response

| 2 June
Analysis
07:00

Is France using Ukraine’s Nato bid to seize EU supremacy?

Macron's overtures to Zelenskyy may have an ulterior motive

| 2 June
Response
19:30

Glamour magazine celebrates Pride with a pregnant man

Logan Brown shows that miracles do happen

| 1 June
Video
17:15

Ukrainian MP: why victory is the only option

Inna Sovsun on drone attacks, censorship and the future of Crimea

| 1 June
Debate
13:10

Is DEI to blame for falling college numbers?

Aggressive ideological projects are putting young Americans off

| 1 June
Analysis
11:15

Will the law finally stand up to Just Stop Oil?

Forthcoming legal changes could empower police to intervene

| 1 June
Debate
07:00

For his own good, Boris should make a strategic retreat

A temporary break from politics could set up a comeback

| 1 June
Explainer
17:00

The war is coming to Russia’s elites

Ukrainian attacks have dented an aura of invincibility in Moscow

| 31 May
Weekend essays

The betrayal of white working-class men

They've been recast as the elite's salivating attack dogs

29 May
8 mins
How America weaponised the West

Unity is an illusion designed to prevent a European split

20 May
9 mins
Is Donald Trump a werewolf?

A silver bullet won't solve the problem

13 May
8 mins
What is King Charles hiding?

The Carolean age uses screens that conceal

8 May
7 mins
Spotlight

The cynical hysteria around AI

Why are tech billionaires pretending to be scared?

2 Jun
5 mins
How Tokyo crushed the Nimbys

Property ownership is not a religion

1 Jun
4 mins
The performative emptiness of the Venice Biennale

Architects have crumbled in the face of populism

31 May
5 mins
Succession is a Christian psychodrama

Logan Roy sacrificed his children on the altar of ambition

29 May
4 mins
Essays

Poetry has lost its violence

Censorious prudes miss the point of art

1 Jun
10 mins

Censorious prudes miss the point of art

1 Jun
10 mins
The end of dollar supremacy

The West's imperial lifecycle is drawing to a close

26 May
5 mins
Keir Starmer the Conservative

How will he manage Brexit?

25 May
5 mins

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