Reform UK has made significant inroads into the rural vote. Credit: Getty

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Why British farmers love Farage

Tuesday, 2 June

Have Republicans gone too far on trans — or not far enough? Hardliners are frustrated that more bills haven’t made their way though Congress

Lisa Selin Davis

Germany asylum seeker applications fall to lowest level since 2012 Immigration from countries including Syria and Afghanistan has dropped dramatically

Requiem for the perverts. Credit: Getty

Curtain-twitchers have killed Soho

Richard Crampton-Platt

Henry Nowak murder has shattered trust in British police It will take years to shake off the cult of antiracism

Oldham is still obscuring the horror of grooming gangs Community leaders are downplaying the importance of race

Monday, 1 June

Has Labour lost the working class forever? We are sacrificing our core vote to Nigel Farage

Does it matter whether Platner is of good character? Credit: Getty

Graham Platner proves that scandals no longer matter

Emily Jashinsky

Europe’s new oil price caps won’t harm Russian economy Non-Western buyers will continue to prop up sales

Netanyahu doesn’t want Trump to end the Iran war A peace deal could halt Israeli expansion into Lebanon

Sunday, 31 May

JD Vance remains Trump’s natural successor Reports of a split at the top of MAGA are wishful thinking

Sting is right about the roots of toxic masculinity Deindustrialisation has devastated working-class life and left lasting social scars

Dustin Guastella

'When criticism lands on politicians such as Sturgeon, sex suddenly becomes politically decisive.' Credit: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg/ BBC

Nicola Sturgeon is fooling nobody by playing the sexism card

Josephine Bartosch

A snap election would be disastrous for Kemi Badenoch Andy Burnham could quickly go to the voters if he gets into No. 10

Saturday, 30 May

Peter Thiel won’t find a safe haven in Argentina The country’s economic system is fundamentally unstable

Recruiting young unemployed people won’t fix Britain’s army One shortage is being used to paper over another

Starmer can’t escape New Labour Government policy is still guided by Blair and his acolytes

Lee David Evans

Friday, 29 May

America’s tourism slump will outlast the World Cup Hosting the tournament is fuelling rather than solving current problems

Do more teenagers need weekend jobs? Credit: Getty

Neet crisis is downstream of therapy culture

Stella O'Malley

Is this the end of Pedro Sánchez? The Spanish PM has weathered a series of corruption scandals in office

Keir Starmer is turning online safety into a moral panic Plans to restrict teenagers’ social media use are rooted in ignorance

Thursday, 28 May

Elite college faculty donations skew heavily Left New research shows a lack of ideological balance at top universities

Justice is served. Credit: Getty

Hampshire rape case is a stain on Britain’s liberal judges

Western leaders are in denial about Ukraine’s war losses Kyiv is still struggling on the battlefield

Wolfgang Munchau

Rachel Reeves’s ‘Buy British’ plan is fantasy economics Labour isn’t ready to overhaul its industrial strategy

Wednesday, 27 May

‘Who, me?’ Credit: Getty

Tony Blair’s essay attacks the problems Blairism created

Philip Cunliffe

Social media has pushed teenage boys towards chatbot romances Relationships with AI companions are on the rise

Kristina Murkett

Birmingham, not Manchester, is Britain’s second city It may be uncool, but it has had a profound impact on national life

Is Keir Starmer listening? Credit: Getty

Labour’s women problem is worse than Jess Phillips thinks

Tuesday, 26 May

Pope Leo’s encyclical fails to challenge the AI threat His landmark publication is too light on the nature of consciousness

H-1B visas are tearing Silicon Valley apart Americans are being displaced by cheap foreign labour

Antonio de Loera-Brust

Normalisation of ties with Israel remain a sticking point for several countries in the Middle East. Credit: Getty

Trump’s push to expand Abraham Accords is delusional