Does the country need more ‘loveless lumps’? Credit: Getty

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Britain’s new towns risk repeating postwar mistakes The design disconnect between elite and popular opinion is too vast

Nicholas Boys Smith

If there is an urgency around a ceasefire, it is coming from Washington rather than Tehran. Credit: Getty

A longer war plays into Iran’s hands

Jennifer Kavanagh

Thursday

26.03

Bill Maher is the Mark Twain Prize winner we deserve Former rebels have turned into the establishment

Emily Jashinsky

Midterms victory could set up Democrats to fail in 2028 The party hasn’t learned from past mistakes

Michael Baharaeen

Why I no longer support social media bans for teenagers Harsher restrictions risk expanding state control at home

Stella O'Malley

Nigel Farage spots another potential Tory defector. Credit: Getty

Reform gives up on nationalisation — and Labour voters

Wednesday

25.03

Cuba’s useful idiot convoy exposes the Left’s blind spot Hasan Piker and Jeremy Corbyn should not overlook diaspora voices

Sophie Fullerton

JD Vance is the key to Iran peace talks Tehran refuses to sit down with Trump’s more hawkish allies

Martin Clunes as the disgraced newsreader. Credit: Channel 5

Huw Edwards TV drama has a central flaw

Labour has been captured by vested interests The Mandelson affair is the culmination of the party’s betrayal of voters

Tuesday

24.03

MAGA was never ‘anti-war’ Trump supporters are only too happy to forget his previous hawkishness

Is Huel sale a death knell for British manufacturing? The UK is falling behind in the global trade race

Previous Italian PMs have been undone by mistaken attempts at reform. Credit: Getty

Referendum defeat has dented Giorgia Meloni’s invincibility

Germany’s working class is abandoning the center-left Voters are losing patience with the SPD’s stances on immigration and economics

Is Britain prepared for more Iranian terror attacks? An arson incident in north London is a sign of things to come

Monday

23.03

Ibram X. Kendi’s racist dictatorship warning proves he is stuck in 2020 His ideas remain rooted in racial victimhood and determinism

'Without the Christian religion as a metaphysical scaffolding, the monarchy is significantly less defensible and intelligible.' Credit: Getty.

Prince William’s Christian turn is a PR move

Liberal centrists have lost the argument on Israel Tucker Carlson emerged as the clear winner from his Economist interview

Net Zero leaves West dangerously exposed to energy shocks Climate lockdowns are not a viable way to bring down costs

Sunday

22.03

The monarchy is emerging as the next front in Spain's political realignment. Credit: Getty

The Spanish Right is turning on the King

Killing Iran’s leaders has strengthened the regime US and Israeli strikes are hardening Tehran’s resolve

Daniel DePetris

Oil shocks could trigger a private credit crisis War in Iran is having unforeseen consequences

Wolfgang Munchau

Saturday

21.03

How the algorithm cannibalized Twitter Twenty years on from its founding, the site has lost its spark

'The age of Chuck Norris facts seems increasingly anachronistic.' Credit: Getty.

Chuck Norris symbolized a more innocent internet era

The Covid Inquiry must confront its lockdown blind spot Baroness Hallett is still resistant to the facts about excess deaths

Friday

20.03

A better tribune of Trumpism than Trump? Credit: Getty

A Tucker Carlson 2028 run would break MAGA

Is controlling Britain’s borders an impossible job? The Government’s small boats chief has left his role after less than two years

US is spending $2 billion a day on Iran war America's military campaign in Iran is turning into a long, expensive slog

Jennifer Kavanagh

Steel plants in Rotherham, Sheffield, Redcar and Port Talbot have shut in recent years. Credit: Getty

UK steel strategy is too little, too late

Thursday

19.03

The metaverse was never the future it claimed to be Mark Zuckerberg created a more costly, unwieldy version of the internet

Mary Harrington