Who will be leader at the next Reform conference? Credit: Getty

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Is Zia Yusuf preparing to succeed Farage? The Reform UK leader faces an uncertain future amid mounting scandals

Saturday, September 5

Andy Burnham doesn’t understand pubs London has more to offer than chains

Richard Crampton-Platt

Record wheat prices are causing anxiety in Europe Geopolitical tensions, not droughts, are to blame

Susanne Mundschenk

Sleazy does it. Credit: Getty

Reform sleaze probe shows Farage is not ready for power

James Sean Dickson

Friday, September 4

Team Trump’s gamer politics are glitching White House online messaging is even alienating some supporters

Jordan Bardella could become French prime minister if his party wins next year’s election. Credit: Getty

Jordan Bardella: Europe’s immigration wave is only the beginning

Pedro Sánchez’s Ceuta response is weakening the Spanish state Anti-migrant protesters are taking the crisis into their own hands

‘The Kremlin still wants to maintain some element of plausible deniability.’ Credit: Getty

Does Britain really face an imminent Russian threat?

Thursday, September 3

JD Vance embraces his inner Peter Thiel with Antichrist warning Apocalyptic thinking is here to stay

Samuel Rubinstein

Covid alone cannot explain UK’s lost generation of kids Record numbers of young people are visiting A&E for emotional distress

Kristina Murkett

Gloria Steinem: Cold Warrior, patriot, and spy The feminist activist has died at the age of 92

Police officers confront Pamela Cisneros on Monday after she stabbed two people in Times Square. Credit: X

Times Square stabbing exposes Mamdani’s mental illness blind spot

Carolyn D. Gorman

Wednesday, September 2

New York City declares that race is a social construct A new equity plan is making government more ideological

Got Milk? Credit: Syrn/Instagram

Sydney Sweeney is blurring the line between Hollywood and OnlyFans

Nikos Mohammadi

Democrats are gym bros now Candidates are turning to workout videos as they try to win back men

Modi’s Ukraine rebuke shows Putin is losing his friends Russia is no longer such a useful ally

Bethany Elliott

Tuesday, September 1

'There appears to be no plausible path to unconditional Iranian capitulation short of a full-scale ground invasion.' Credit: Getty

Dan Driscoll resignation shows Iran war is unsustainable

Daniel L. Davis

Stella Lefty is country music’s slopulist future She is the anti-Dolly Parton

The Right’s attacks on Abdul El-Sayed reek of desperation MAGA is struggling to find a message that sticks

A motion at the Green party’s conference in October will suggest that dividing men and women in sport is the product of colonialism. Credit: Getty

The Greens’ trans sport proposal is not a fringe idea

Josephine Bartosch

Monday, August 31

Will Rupert Lowe push the British Right away from Israel? His online spat with Yair Netanyahu shows how quickly old alliances can unravel

Ed Markey has made trans issues a key part of his campaign. Credit: Getty

Democrats are still stumped on gender issues

Lisa Selin Davis

Sunday, August 30

Why is the online Right stigmatizing stay-at-home mothers? ‘SAHMs’ are the latest social media target

The EU is heading for another existential crisis Mario Draghi’s Rhine Group illustrates all that is wrong with the bloc

Britain might finally have won the cheese war Comté shows that even France’s most hallowed culinary traditions have limits

Richard Crampton-Platt

Saturday, August 29

Farewell, Milo. Credit: Getty

Milo Yiannopoulos: yesterday’s internet radical

Funding Trident won’t solve Germany’s nuclear dilemma Berlin should chart its own path on deterrence

Thirsty for more fiscal headroom. (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Thames Water saga leaves Burnham with nowhere to hide

Friday, August 28

Democrats should not build bridges with the DSA It will hurt the party in the long run

Michael Baharaeen

Competing with YouTube will degrade the BBC Matt Brittin has proposed a public service algorithm to rival social media

Timandra Harkness