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Is Reform UK a paper tiger?

John Oxley

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Dispatch 20:49

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Inside the Columbia University protests

James Billot

Undercurrents 18:05

Undercurrents

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Liz Truss plays up the Donald Trump parallels

Reaction 14:30

Reaction

Xi Jinping is quietly sanction-proofing China

Industrial might remains China’s main geopolitical advantage against the West.

Miquel Vila

Analysis 11:50

Analysis

Nvidia’s falling share price shows the AI reckoning has begun

John Rapley

Reaction 10:00

Reaction

reaction

The Cornel West paradox: how woke is too woke?

Emily Jashinsky

Debate 07:00

Debate

Aid won’t fix Ukraine’s recruitment crisis

Philip Pilkington

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How vice consumed Blackpool Pimps and criminals thrive amid political decay

Jacob Furedi

9 mins

Trans history

Who is to blame for gender theory? Some feminists resist the idea of sexual difference

Sarah Ditum

7 mins

23 Apr

Middle East

Iran is weaker than we think Despite Obama's mistakes, Israel retains the upper hand

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

23 Apr

Trans history

Who is to blame for gender theory? Some feminists resist the idea of sexual difference

Sarah Ditum

7 mins

23 Apr

Middle East

Iran is weaker than we think Despite Obama's mistakes, Israel retains the upper hand

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

23 Apr

Sex

Aids and the new homophobia 40 years on, gay monogamy has been normalised

Andrew Doyle

5 mins

23 Apr

Power struggles

The fatal flaw in David Lammy’s progressive realism It is a work of anodyne political messaging

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

22 Apr

The Next Oil War?

Is Reform UK a paper tiger?

Inside the Columbia University protests

Liz Truss plays up the Donald Trump parallels

Xi Jinping is quietly sanction-proofing China

Nvidia’s falling share price shows the AI reckoning has begun

The Cornel West paradox: how woke is too woke?

Aid won’t fix Ukraine’s recruitment crisis

How vice consumed Blackpool Pimps and criminals thrive amid political decay

Who is to blame for gender theory? Some feminists resist the idea of sexual difference

Iran is weaker than we think Despite Obama's mistakes, Israel retains the upper hand

Who is to blame for gender theory? Some feminists resist the idea of sexual difference

Iran is weaker than we think Despite Obama's mistakes, Israel retains the upper hand

Aids and the new homophobia 40 years on, gay monogamy has been normalised

The fatal flaw in David Lammy’s progressive realism It is a work of anodyne political messaging

Who is to blame for gender theory? Some feminists resist the idea of sexual difference

Iran is weaker than we think Despite Obama's mistakes, Israel retains the upper hand

Aids and the new homophobia 40 years on, gay monogamy has been normalised

Inside the Gen Z sex war Would you date a Right-wing man?

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The Next Oil War?

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Crisis: Iran Attacks

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Tony Blair: autocracies are fine with ‘smart’ leaders

The House Ukraine package is a defeat for populists

Conservatives will be punished on immigration record

Is Trump Media a meme stock?

Democrats struggle to control progressives over Gaza

Rishi Sunak may have less than two weeks left

The Israel-Gaza war has changed everything The norms of war are being rewritten in real-time

Liberalism didn’t protect Salman Rushdie He was a victim of its mutation into identity politics

We must become Chernobyl wolves Davos men are hilariously incompetent

The enlightened case for being selfish Self-interest, not solidarity, should be our lodestar

Trump’s fight for Pennsylvania The faithful fear he won't be allowed to win

These Times Live: War and Peace in the Middle East

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The extinction of the political animal Democracy is laughing itself to death

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Is Reform UK a paper tiger?

Inside the Columbia University protests

Xi Jinping is quietly sanction-proofing China

Who is Liz Truss kidding?

Trump’s fight for Pennsylvania

Why RFK Jr is the Silicon Valley candidate

Is this the end of Angela Rayner?

The tyranny of Columbine 25 years ago, America handed evil a gun

AOC claims Trump will jail dissidents if elected

NPR’s Katherine Maher saga is a lesson for conservatives

Elon Musk: Global Disinformation Index should be shut down

Björn Höcke’s Nazi trial won’t damage the AfD

Is Nicola Sturgeon the next domino to fall in SNP probe?

Puberty blocker ruling won’t cure Scotland’s gender problem

Why did we forgive OJ Simpson? America laughed its way through the injustice

French farmers are the new Gilets Jaunes They are possessed by the same spirit of rebellion

The Return of ISIS

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The metaverse of Fernando Pessoa His visionary consciousness took him to new worlds

A war is brewing in the Pacific Will Aukus make the same mistakes as Nato?

Is Joe Biden gaslighting America? The US economy is booming — but voters aren't feeling richer

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Is Trump Media a meme stock?

NPR’s Katherine Maher saga is a lesson for conservatives

‘Polycule’ relationships are a bureaucratic nightmare

Liberalism didn’t protect Salman Rushdie

The problem with Byron’s debauchery

The metaverse of Fernando Pessoa

The war for Sydney Sweeney’s breasts

Labour MP: UK should have followed Sweden on Covid

Joe Biden causes inter-Zoomer rift

Europe’s Right-wing alliances won’t hold easily

What if the Sydney killer had no motive?

David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ isn’t realistic

David Nutt: MPs against smoking ban should legalise drugs

How Antifa went mainstream From Brussels to California, illiberalism is thriving

The Battle of Hastings 2.0 Can local fishermen withstand the tide of gentrification?

How to spot the next mania Each new panic follows the same playbook

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