December 15, 2025

New hate speech bill reflects Canada’s widening sectarian divisions The country must be more than the sum of its persecution complexes

Rob Reiner’s liberal optimism shaped a generation of cinema His films were moralistic but didn’t preach

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

The dark side of the global surrogacy market Chinese billionaires are procuring armies of children with US passports

Mary Harrington

Zelensky’s Nato concession is an admission of reality The promise of membership was never credible

Bethany Elliott

Stripping Net Zero powers won’t solve London’s housing crisis Labour is falling well short of what's required

Sunday

14.12

John Cena’s retirement spells end of apolitical American life He was a bridge to a time before hyper-partisanship

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Limor Simhony Philpott

Why have half of secondary school pupils been off with anxiety? We are rewarding self-limiting behaviours

Kristina Murkett

Saturday

13.12

Losing dive bars will crush neighbourhood life No rooftop lounge or cocktail bar can replicate these defining third spaces

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other? Alarmist coverage is running ahead of the evidence

Friday

12.12

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK Mass immigration has prompted a rethink

Samuel Rubinstein

Great British Railways rebrand is hollow nostalgia Our train system should be a source of national pride, not an embarrassment

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses Leaked US documents prove that Brussels has no plan for peace or war

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday

11.12

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit? Maduro’s fall may be imminent, but a vacuum will be far more dangerous

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label Globalisation is giving us cheap, homogenised culture

Mattia Ferraresi

Tim Pool-Candace Owens feud reveals emptiness of e-politics Angry conspiracism is what passes as culture in our mimetic online world

Mary Harrington

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

ECHR law changes won’t stop Britain’s activist lawyers Politics is increasingly limiting an independent judiciary

Wednesday

10.12

California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run

Why do so many Scottish pupils have additional support needs? Almost half of the country’s schoolchildren require assistance in education

Cutting police forces is a Government power grab Shabana Mahmood is seeking a more centralised model

Bisexuality plummets among Gen Z in UK ONS figures suggest we have reached the other side of a sexual revolution

Should teachers really be banned for calling Britain a Christian country?

Tuesday

09.12

Jasmine Crockett run turns Texas into another lost Democratic cause Her inflammatory rhetoric will put off swing voters

Michael Baharaeen

$1 trillion trade surplus leaves China dangerously dependent Beijing’s export-oriented model could easily collapse

Sandie Peggie ruling is a surrender to trans activists An NHS nurse has won the smallest of victories in her employment tribunal

School flu lockdowns show Covid-era fear still rules Pandemic mistakes are being repeated across the country