Prof. Dieter Helm

The madness of our climate policy

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Nigel Farage’s identity crisis The old ideologies won’t work

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

5 mins

8 Nov


weekend essay

Uncancelled at last Four years on, are we any wiser?

Kate Clanchy

7 mins

8 Nov


Weekend profile

Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical His generation inherited insecurity

Sohrab Ahmari

9 mins

8 Nov


Vibe shift

Now the cancel mob cries victim They deserve little pity

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

7 Nov


Sex

Porn guys repel women Addicts are destroying relationships

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

6 Nov

review

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologues

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

5 mins

7 Nov

Interview

The girl who killed ‘Teen Vogue’ Lauren Duca defined the mag — then ditched it

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

7 Nov


Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

Mayoral election

Will America elect a socialist president? Mamdani could pave the way for AOC

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov


Obituary

Dick Cheney was America’s Rasputin He condemned America to its doom loop

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

6 mins

5 Nov


review

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologues

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

5 mins

7 Nov

Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

Interview

The girl who killed ‘Teen Vogue’ Lauren Duca defined the mag — then ditched it

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

7 Nov


Mayoral election

Will America elect a socialist president? Mamdani could pave the way for AOC

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov

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Revolution

Reform UK’s Gunpowder Plot The old order is threatened

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

5 Nov


advert

Save me from John Lewis Britain The centrist dads must not hold sway

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

6 Nov

Review

John Updike’s carnal Christianity He knew the hymn beneath the hard-on

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov


social scene

Why London’s literati can’t write Egalitarianism doesn’t produce great work

Rose Lyddon

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov

Dispatch

How Birmingham became a political football The city is on the defensive

Dan Cave

Dan Cave

5 mins

6 Nov

Halloween

Do the Irish believe in ghosts? Collective trauma feeds the supernatural

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct

75 years on

Will we ever escape the ECHR? Rule by judges protects elite interests

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

6 mins

4 Nov


review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

Elections

Has the Dutch far-Right peaked? Geert Wilders faces a reckoning

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct


Election

Mamdani heralds the radical American city The educated precariat fuels urban socialism

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

6 mins

5 Nov

Peace Talks

Trump still can’t resist Putin Russia’s oil wealth beckons

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

6 mins

28 Oct

Geopolitics

The rot at the heart of Europe It has forgotten how to create

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

3 Nov


Deindustrialisation

Pittsburgh vs Cleveland: a tale of two Rust Belt cities One thrives while the other despairs

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

Culture

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

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct


Review

Zadie Smith has nothing to say She is a master of self-regarding equivocation

John Maier

John Maier

7 mins

5 Nov

Plutocracy

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

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

weekend essay

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist The Left read him wrong

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

1 Nov


review

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

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

populism

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

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct


Dispatch

Big Tech’s assault on Maryland Data centres threaten rural paradise

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

12 mins

4 Nov

Television

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

Weekend Dispatch

Chicago’s theatre of violence Performative toughness won’t save the city

Alexander Nazaryan

Alexander Nazaryan

12 mins

1 Nov


Patriotism

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

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 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


Interview

The return of New York’s Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa speaks for a fading city

James Billot

James Billot

8 mins

4 Nov

Dispatch

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

Fin Carter

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct

Weekend analysis

Zarah Sultana is a fickle comrade Your Party is a Leftist self-parody

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

1 Nov


dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

belief system

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct


Train attack

How policing will turn into politics The response to Huntingdon will strain the system

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

5 mins

3 Nov

premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct

Protests

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

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

monoculture

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

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct


Cartels

Mexico’s unending drug wars The mayhem could last a generation

Ioan Grillo

Ioan Grillo

7 mins

3 Nov

Religion

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

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct

flags

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

Brad Evans

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct