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Giorgia Meloni won’t save EU from Trump’s tariffs

Thomas Fazi

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Democrats’ deportation outrage is convenient, not consistent

Emily Jashinsky

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Sam Altman’s new social network threatens Elon Musk’s empire

Monopoly is a force that shapes American policy and public life.

Brian Chau

Debate 10:00

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Porn is normalizing violent misogyny

Josephine Bartosch

Wednesday, April 16thWednesday
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Inside Tucker Carlson’s Ireland visit with Conor McGregor

Theo McDonald

Analysis 16:45

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Can Democrats exploit Trump’s tariff chaos?

Joel Kotkin

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Explainer

Putin’s military escalation shows Trump has no leverage

Either his recalcitrance earns him bigger concessions from Washington, or it frustrates Trump into walking away entirely.

Jennifer Kavanagh

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Will the Democrats embrace Joe Biden again?

Zaid Jilani

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Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion He swapped Leftism for Pinochet

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The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labor is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

20 mins

18 Apr

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The West’s Faustian tragedy Godlessness explains our malaise

David Lloyd Dusenbury

8 mins

18 Apr

Investigation

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labor is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

20 mins

18 Apr

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The West’s Faustian tragedy Godlessness explains our malaise

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18 Apr

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Arrested for praying: The free speech row

Giorgia Meloni won’t save EU from Trump’s tariffs

Democrats’ deportation outrage is convenient, not consistent

Sam Altman’s new social network threatens Elon Musk’s empire

Porn is normalizing violent misogyny

Inside Tucker Carlson’s Ireland visit with Conor McGregor

Can Democrats exploit Trump’s tariff chaos?

Putin’s military escalation shows Trump has no leverage

Will the Democrats embrace Joe Biden again?

Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion He swapped Leftism for Pinochet

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labor is looking the other way

The West’s Faustian tragedy Godlessness explains our malaise

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labor is looking the other way

The West’s Faustian tragedy Godlessness explains our malaise

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labor is looking the other way

The West’s Faustian tragedy Godlessness explains our malaise

From the UK edition

Labor’s early prisoner releases will fuel two-tier accusations

Is Reform UK coming for Holyrood?

Supreme Court’s ‘woman’ ruling is a blow to gender ideology

EU’s new deportation plan is delusional

Is coal the answer to Britain’s industrial crisis?

Tory-Reform pact would dent Farage’s appeal

UK Government is still in denial about two-tier policing

Labour’s embrace of women’s rights is too little, too late

Cambridge University is wrong to scrap exam rankings

British Steel nationalization should herald a new industrial strategy

How China stole snooker American fans are trapped by nostalgia

Britain’s petrolheads are back

Mélenchon’s people power fantasy

Postcode gangs are terrorizing Bristol

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Giorgia Meloni won’t save EU from Trump’s tariffs

Democrats’ deportation outrage is convenient, not consistent

Labor’s early prisoner releases will fuel two-tier accusations

Is Trump trying to save China?

Can America tame Iran?

Harvard’s resistance to Trump is a model for US universities

JD Vance: I use Twitter to escape the bubble

SNL breaks the trans taboo

Biden paved the way for Trump’s embrace of Bukele

Meta antitrust trial is a litmus test for the MAGA coalition

Surrendering free will is the real AI threat

Is Trump trying to save China? His messy trade policy is a boon to Beijing

Japan’s humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Aptitude tests are making us stupid They encourage workplace conservatism

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

How women won the gender wars It took brains, guts, and heart

Ancient Rome was built on gossip Tittle-tattle is a powerful weapon

Our Mission

JD Vance: My message to Europe America doesn’t want a vassal continent

Bill Maher shows liberals how to deal with Trump

Cambridge University is wrong to scrap exam rankings

EU faces a choice deeper than America vs China

Ukraine partition plan won’t bring peace

Prosecuting Quran burners is capitulation to blasphemy laws

Frank Zappa: America’s last rebel The old music gods are cashing out

How YouTube forged the online Right Its polemicists radicalized a generation

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

The AI tribes vying for power Which will conquer the White House?

Martin Amis stole my life He distorted our romance for profit

Culture

Mario Vargas Llosa’s illiberal conversion

Hidden email casts doubt on Lucy Letby verdict

Britain doesn’t need an SNL reboot

Ruger and Colby appointments confirm MAGA ascendancy

Is a weaker dollar Trump’s long-term plan?

Dave Smith-Douglas Murray debate highlights Right-wing fault lines

Big Data can’t save policing from political correctness

Why is Hamas playing the human rights card?

Why Americans don’t get Canada The nation has a unique collectivist spirit

Skepticism won’t save you Science can never be certain

Anorexia shouldn’t be a death sentence Ethical activists conspire to enable suicide

Trump’s Economic Revolution

These Times

Can America tame Iran? The Islamic Republic has never been weaker

The folly of a British Silicon Valley Starmerism is suffocating its progress