Weekend Edition, 10 June 2023

Weekend Report
Mary Gaitskill: How a chatbot charmed me

We analysed dreams, love and human pets

10 Jun
20 mins
Latest from The Post >
Analysis
16:00

Rishi Sunak deserves praise for his foreign policy

The PM is forging a more realistic and pragmatic role for the UK

| 9 June
Weekend Interview
Will the elites ever behave?

Aspirational oligarchs could spark a revolution

Aspirational oligarchs could spark a revolution

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10 Jun
10 mins
Analysis
Britain can thrive as a vassal state

The UK and EU are trapped by delusions of power

The UK and EU are trapped by delusions of power

8 Jun
4 mins
Interview
‘I was hounded out of Oxfam over JK Rowling’

A former employee reveals how she was silenced

A former employee reveals how she was silenced

6 Jun
7 mins
Opinion
How the elites squandered Brexit

Britain still resembles an EU member state

Britain still resembles an EU member state

5 Jun
5 mins
Latest from The Post >
Analysis
16:00

Rishi Sunak deserves praise for his foreign policy

The PM is forging a more realistic and pragmatic role for the UK

| 9 June

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Aris Roussinos

Dominic Sandbrook

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Starmer will regret purging the Left

The roots of Corbynism are far from dead

9 Jun
6 mins
The battle over breastfeeding

Feminism has recoiled from female biology

8 Jun
5 mins
The gender wars are not a gift to the Right

Concerned women are hardly extremists

7 Jun
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Opinion

The many delusions of Roger Waters

He has turned antisemitism into entertainment

9 Jun
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South Africa isn’t neutral on Ukraine

Ramaphosa's pretence is starting to unravel

7 Jun
5 mins
The capitalists are revolting over China

Western hawks face an unlikely resistance

6 Jun
5 mins
Analysis

The greatest generational conflict

Youth alienation isn't confined to the West

9 Jun
4 mins
Poland’s phoney war on ‘Russian saboteurs’

The government commission is a McCarthyite ploy

8 Jun
4 mins
RFK Jr could learn from his father

Bobby Kennedy forged a path between America's extremes

5 Jun
6 mins

Interviews.

we sit down with original thinkers and talk ideas

 Was New Atheism a mistake?

Richard Dawkins on God, vaccines and his poetic spirit

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

Debate
13:00

The IMF is no friend to British workers

Higher immigration hurts blue-collar wages more than graduate jobs

| 9 June
Analysis
11:00

Rishi Sunak turns his back on free trade

The PM's Atlantic Declaration with Joe Biden is explicitly protectionist

| 9 June
Reaction
07:30

Britain has gone from an AI innovator to a bureaucratic regulator

Rishi Sunak has set his sights on the UK becoming a tech watchdog

| 9 June
Dark Web
17:00

Apple’s Vision Pro: a window into a dark future

The tech giant's new gadget is an uncanny imitation of real life

| 8 June
Debate
15:15

Labour MSP silenced for the duration of Pride Month

Pauline McNeill has been forced to withdraw from an event for sex-based rights

| 8 June
Reaction
13:00

Information war goes into overdrive after Ukraine dam break

Recent claims and counter-claims have bordered on the absurd

| 8 June
Explainer
10:45

Caroline Lucas: the Eurosceptic who became an arch-Remainer

The MP has called it quits on a career that contained multitudes

| 8 June
Analysis
07:00

Voters flock to the AfD in search of energy realism

Germany's mainstream parties are stuck in an old ideology

| 8 June
Reaction
16:00

Does the ‘Whatever’ podcast make women look stupid?

Media accusations of misogyny don't tell the full story

| 7 June
Profile
13:00

The political evolution of Jack Dorsey

Twitter's founder recently endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr

| 7 June
Weekend essays

Why are teachers striking over slavery?

California's unions prioritise progressivism over fair pay

3 Jun
7 mins
The betrayal of white working-class men

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

27 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
Spotlight

The plan behind Ukraine’s counteroffensive

After the dam attack, patience is wearing thin

9 Jun
5 mins
Why did USAID fund the Wuhan lab?

Taxpayers financed the creation of deadly pathogens

8 Jun
9 mins
How landlords became monsters

Renters are engaged in a new class conflict

7 Jun
6 mins
The dilemma of displaying corpses

Even the dead have a hierarchy of victimhood

6 Jun
5 mins
Essays

Will America share Rome’s fate?

Our empire's over-extension could be its downfall

6 Jun
7 mins

Our empire's over-extension could be its downfall

6 Jun
7 mins
Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland?

An ambiguous identity is productive for writers

5 Jun
9 mins
Poetry has lost its violence

Censorious prudes miss the point of art

1 Jun
10 mins

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