Democrats have failed the Pete Hegseth test Effective attack lines on Trump's nominee were in short supply

Emily Jashinsky

Are grooming gang perpetrators really from ‘peasant’ communities? Kemi Badenoch is right to demand an investigation into ethnic backgrounds

Italy’s Starlink deal is a different kind of national surrender

BBC News is turning into a clickbait factory The broadcaster's website is littered with desperately inconsequential stories

Rachel Reeves peddles reheated Osbornism on China visit Labour must lean on Brexit, not Beijing, for economic growth

Richard Johnson

Monday

13.01

Biden’s final foreign policy speech: an exercise in self-promotion The President's record abroad lies in tatters

Christopher McCallion

Steve Bannon’s anti-tech crusade fuels MAGA division

Half of Britons believe Elon Musk is a threat to democracy New polling shows scepticism over the tech billionaire's political interventions

Emmanuel Macron is unwise to pick a fight with America Elon Musk's attention could turn to promoting Marine Le Pen

Philip Pilkington

Cutting disability benefits won’t boost UK economy

Ukraine’s oil refinery attacks may alienate Washington Strikes on Russian infrastructure are a desperate bid for leverage in peace talks

Bethany Elliott

Sunday

12.01

Anglican Church reforms signal Britain’s fading power The Church's centre is moving away from the secularised West

Are Pakistani Muslims overrepresented in sexual abuse of girls? Statistics reveal a strong link between ethnicity and involvement in grooming gangs

Oxford Literary Festival faces growing trans backlash

Saturday

11.01

Is Russia to blame for Havana Syndrome? A bombshell report suggests that a foreign actor may be responsible

Andy Burnham is now a threat to Keir Starmer Greater Manchester's Mayor has proposed an inquiry into grooming gangs

Is the UAE stricter on terrorism than the UK?

UK’s blackout near-miss shows risks of Net Zero Reliance on renewables could lead to prolonged power outages

Friday

10.01

Has Trump fallen out with Netanyahu?

Trump’s sentencing marks the end of the Resistance Today's verdict shows that Democratic lawfare has ended with a whimper

Emily Jashinsky

In Search of Wild Gods with Nick Cave and Tom Holland, in pictures

Anti-ageing vaccine points to a dangerous future We are entering a technological culture of Promethean ambitions

Can Gavin Newsom survive the LA wildfires?

Britain’s leaderless Armed Forces are becoming obsolete The next Chief of the Defence Staff has an impossible job

Thursday

09.01

Will Elon Musk’s endorsement boost the AfD? Tesla CEO claimed the party could 'save' Germany

Ralph Schoellhammer

Labour is pushing the UK into stagflation A slowdown in the economy is all but guaranteed

Kemi Badenoch is right to hold off on policies — for now She must first account for what went wrong with her party

New study minimises harm of youth gender transitions

Why is Reform’s support growing in Scotland?

Wednesday

08.01

New evidence undermines Lucy Letby verdict — MP David Davis claimed in Parliament that the jury missed crucial evidence

Meta’s AI pivot poses bigger threat than fact-checkers Although the move could increase engagement, free speech may suffer

The cold logic of Trump’s Greenland purchase

Grooming gang victims need a new statutory inquiry Previous reports underplayed cultural factors

Spiralling gilt yields spell trouble for the UK Borrowing costs are now higher than after Liz Truss's mini-budget

Philip Pilkington

Is the Royal Society of Literature a lost cause?

Tuesday

07.01

Pandemic planners haven’t learnt from their Covid mistakes Experts are once again fretting about another outbreak

Good riddance to Meta’s fact-checkers

Why is the press giving Antony Blinken an easy ride? The outgoing Secretary of State has faced little scrutiny over his record

A Green Deal wealth tax won’t save Europe’s centrists Frans Timmermans's latest proposal is fodder for the populist Right

Ralph Schoellhammer

Canadian Left in tatters after Trudeau exit No one has an answer for the Conservatives' soaring popularity

Monday

06.01

Are cancer warnings on alcohol politically motivated?

Zelensky maintains Nato dream in Lex Fridman interview Forswearing alliance ambitions is Ukraine's only path to a ceasefire

Christopher McCallion

Austria coalition crisis opens door to Right-wing populists

Ideological bias will taint Google’s Habermas machine A new AI system that encourages agreement has the same flaws it is predecessors

Mary Harrington

Warning about Britain’s grooming gangs is not ‘extremism’ Two experts claim that high-profile figures are creating new terrorists by discussing the issue

Sunday

05.01

Did Hillary Clinton and George Soros deserve Medals of Freedom? Both picks undermine the original intent of the award

Elon Musk’s criticism of Nigel Farage is misguided

Iran’s collapse isn’t imminent Tom Tugendhat's prediction of regime change is wishful thinking

Keir Starmer is sleepwalking into a small-boats crisis

Saturday

04.01

Biden’s Nippon Steel decision will hurt US-Japan relations The President is trying to steal his successor's America First thunder

End of Russian gas has exposed Europe’s energy weakness America and Qatar can now dictate LNG deliveries

Maximilian Hess

The grooming gangs condemnation is too little, too late Another national inquiry will make little difference

Friday

03.01

Mike Johnson’s fragile majority will embolden fiscal hawks

Did family breakdown lead to New Orleans attack? Like many other terrorists, Shamsud-Din Jabbar had a history of abusing women

Why Elon Musk dominates British politics The establishment has remained mute as the billionaire decides the agenda

New Orleans attack will inspire more vehicle-ramming terrorism

Soaring gold prices are a bad omen for the dollar Analysts are tipping the metal to hit $10,000 an ounce by the end of the decade

Philip Pilkington

Thursday

02.01

Meta’s AI drive could kill off social media Plans to flood the internet with bots point to an increasingly unreal future

Why is Labour rejecting a national grooming gangs inquiry? Jess Phillips is still resistant to the truth about the scandal

New Orleans attack proves the persistence of Isis ideology

Britain needs an emergency census Swelling immigration has changed the country swiftly and irreversibly

Wednesday

01.01

China’s economy is far from buried Despite a slowdown, Beijing is rolling out new measures in 2025

The problem with Netflix’s ‘casual viewing’

EU targeting of Orbán should worry other member states By permanently withdrawing funds, Brussels is showing its authoritarian side once again

Tuesday

31.12

Vladimir Putin may not have to compromise over Ukraine Russia is winning — and Trump doesn't have the patience for drawn-out negotiations

Bethany Elliott

Has Elon Musk’s X algorithm change backfired? The tech mogul has been accused of censoring his online critics

What Jimmy Carter can teach Donald Trump

Lisa Nandy’s Big Tech warning won’t protect children The Culture Secretary's attempts to challenge online content don't go far enough

Kristina Murkett

Monday

30.12

MAGA’s expansionism will embolden China How serious are Trump's territorial ambitions in Mexico and Canada?

Kemi Badenoch lacks a strategy to see off Nigel Farage

OnlyFans is exploitation dressed up as feminism The site hides its criminal misogyny behind a progressive facade

Josephine Bartosch

Britain’s two-party system is crumbling New polling shows the coming threat to the Labour-Conservative duopoly

Sunday

29.12

Will Trump listen to populist base over looming TikTok ban?

Turkey’s resurgence has left the West flat-footed Erdoğan has designs on gaining influence in Syria — and in Jerusalem

Philip Pilkington

Keir Starmer’s quango drive weakens British democracy Non-elected bodies are growing exponentially

British Transport Police deserves to lose trans court challenge The public body is being sued for allowing trans-identified men to strip-search women

Saturday

28.12

EU bureaucracy is provoking a fresh energy crisis

Ralph Schoellhammer

Labour’s Net Zero plans will lead to carmaker exodus A Nissan-Honda merger is bad news for Britain

Will Labour try to cut Reform UK’s mega-donations? A mooted change to funding rules could backfire

Friday

27.12

Trump’s AI appointment exposes rift between tech Right and MAGA base

Europe’s Ukraine fatigue paves way for peace deal New polling shows the continent is losing faith

Bethany Elliott

Is Nigel Farage the new Leader of the Opposition? Reform UK is claiming that it now has more members than the Tories

James Sean Dickson