There is no natural constituency for a self-consciously Christian political message. Credit: Getty

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Christianity has not returned to British politics

Monday

22.12

Will China step in to defend Venezuela? Beijing has warned against any ‘unilateral bullying’

JD Vance: Ukraine will eventually lose Donetsk The Vice President claimed that Kyiv privately accepts it will not hold the city

Why are Zoomers embracing extremist ideas? Young Americans are taking too many lessons from social media

Sunday

21.12

Are liberals ready to welcome back Dave Chappelle? The comedian is punching Right again

Betting on casinos will cost New York City dearly What looks like a pragmatic revenue fix will entrench addiction and decline

Christmas markets have become ho ho horrible. Credit: Getty.

Globalization has killed the Christmas market

Saturday

20.12

Elise Stefanik’s exit exposes GOP’s New York problem A MAGA-aligned Republican is the wrong fit for a Left-leaning state

Santiago Vidal Calvo

October 7 inquiry risks entrenching Netanyahu's power Loyalists on the panel may turn the investigation into a whitewash

The future of boxing. Credit: Getty

Boxing was a circus long before Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul

Friday

19.12

Party elites haven't learnt their lesson. Credit: Getty

Why are the Democrats burying their autopsy report?

Michael Baharaeen

Putin press conference shows why peace remains distant Russia’s President tried to remain bullish in the face of Ukrainian attacks

Bethany Elliott

OpenAI deal could cement Amazon’s dominance The company will be selling cloud services at a price no one else can match

Failed Russian assets scheme punctures Europe’s delusion Attempts to frustrate Trump’s Ukraine deal have fallen short

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday

18.12

Even some Democrats are breaking ranks on trans Marjorie Taylor Greene’s legislation is long overdue

Lisa Selin Davis

Vivek Ramaswamy fights a losing battle against the Groypers Republican activists prefer Nick Fuentes to the party establishment

Looser EV rules reveal cracks in Europe’s green strategy Plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars have been softened

Wednesday

17.12

Why does Trump World keep speaking with liberal journalists? White House cooperation with unfriendly media has repeatedly backfired

Emily Jashinsky

Is country-club Republicanism dying? A new survey points to GOP reliance on more liberal ex-Democrats

Norman Podhoretz’s universalism is a corrective to our identity politics The late writer foresaw America’s modern-day internal strife

UK youth unemployment is nearing crisis point One in seven young people are not in work

Tuesday

16.12

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression cited 'an uptick in attempts by the political right to silence speech in 2025'. Credit: Getty

US college censorship hits record high in 2025

Susie Wiles: Trump believes that Putin wants all of Ukraine A new report has revealed a stark assessment of the Russian leader’s ambitions

Defending FGM sanitizes abuse of women British academics are making excuses for an abhorrent practice

Josephine Bartosch

Britain can’t afford to fall behind in what may prove to be the next industrial revolution. Credit: Getty

The British case for data centers

If a coup doesn’t fell Starmer, next year’s elections will Talk of regicide is reaching fever pitch but no replacement is likely to do any better

David Littlefair

Monday

15.12

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 had a moral centre but didn’t preach

‘It was always building towards something as awful as Bondi.’ Credit: Getty

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

Elites are fueling a dystopian 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

Sunday

14.12

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