'Argentina is a gamble, as its country risk score and the yields on its bonds readily indicate.' Credit: Getty

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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 the British Army One shortage is being used to paper over another

Friday, May 29

‘Vanilla Ice again?’ Credit: Getty

Freedom 250 shows MAGA should stop chasing celebrity validation

America’s tourism slump will outlast the World Cup Hosting the tournament is fueling 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, May 28

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

Universities are paying the price for ditching SATs GPAs aren’t an adequate measure of academic merit

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

Wolfgang Munchau

Wednesday, May 27

Paxton proved Massie’s ‘craziest son of a bitch’ theory The GOP grassroots want insurgents not outsiders

Emily Jashinsky

‘Who, me?’ Credit: Getty

Tony Blair’s essay attacks the problems Blairism created

Philip Cunliffe

Social media has pushed teenage boys toward 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

Tuesday, May 26

Platner is running with the enthusiastic endorsement of Bernie Sanders. Credit: Getty

Graham Platner’s Leftism takes inspiration from MAGA

Nikos Mohammadi

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 labor

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

Farage’s feud with Elon Musk is dividing the Right The billionaire’s support for Restore Britain could impact the Makerfield by-election

Samuel Rubinstein

Monday, May 25

SpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacy The US sees another opportunity for industrial expansion

'Any public betrayal would further damage Moscow’s reputation as a reliable patron of client states.' Credit: Getty

Fraying Russia-Iran ties were inevitable

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, May 24

It is absurd to condemn Charles Dickens as racist Placing modern moral expectations on Victorian writers is a fool’s game

Why are so many MPs suffering from burnout? Carla Denyer is taking several weeks away from Parliament due to stress

Adam James Pollock

BBC needs more than a ‘sat nav’ to root out bias New DG Matt Brittin is seeking to restore editorial rigor to the corporation

Saturday, May 23

Was Tulsi Gabbard the last America First believer in the White House? Credit: Getty

Tulsi Gabbard resignation marks the end of America First foreign policy

Trans report shows how far Amnesty UK has fallen The charity once encouraged women to find their voice — now it wants to silence them

Friday, May 22

Trump’s Castro indictment will turn screws on Cuban regime Havana faces increasing political, economic, and potentially coercive pressure

'There is now an urge in the conspiracist’s mind to turn over every premise and inspect it for evidence of falsity.' Credit: Candace Owens/YouTube

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens are united by grievance politics

Stephen Colbert represented the worst of establishment liberalism His final CBS show highlighted his political impotence

David Masciotra