Rishi Sunak’s social media ban is unworkable The PM's proposal ignores the damage caused by the algorithm

Kristina Murkett

John Mearsheimer: there is no two-state solution The foreign policy realist offered a grim assessment of the conflict

Are the police finally standing up for gender-critical feminists? Rachel Maclean has been given the protection she deserves

How an Elon Musk university could disrupt academia The billionaire is pumping $100 million into a new higher education scheme

Did social media activism hurt the Ukrainian cause? State-sponsored boosterism created a bubble of unrealistic expectations

Thursday

14.12

The Fed is playing a dangerous game on interest rates Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Reserve may cut rates next year

Putin revels in a fractured West during annual call-in The Russian President is exploiting division in Washington

Bethany Elliott

Across America’s cities, voters are driving out progressives A recent spate of elections has sent a message to Left-wing leaders

Kemi Badenoch is right about Britain’s trans ‘epidemic’ Linguistic disputes can't disguise the surge in referrals

Josephine Bartosch

Don’t rule out a Conor McGregor presidency The MMA fighter has a better shot than many might think

Conor Fitzgerald

Wednesday

13.12

Labour won’t learn from Mark Drakeford’s failures The outgoing leader achieved almost nothing during his time in office

Ukraine’s accession to the EU could cost €190 billion Can the bloc afford a new member-state?

The AfD’s rise has become unstoppable Public trust in the government is falling, and the German Right stands to gain

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi’s Rwanda plan is destined to fail Yesterday's vote bought the PM time but not salvation

Tuesday

12.12

Support for Israel is falling across US and UK American support remains much higher than in Europe

What QALYs reveal about lockdowns Rishi Sunak has brought attention to a key measure of pandemic management

Andy Cook: how lockdowns broke Britain The Covid Inquiry is missing key facts

PEN America’s new president is no free speech champion Jennifer Finney Boylan disowned a letter signed by J.K. Rowling

Eliza Mondegreen

Rishi Sunak: lockdown costs outweighed benefits The PM quoted a significant QALY finding in yesterday's inquiry hearing

The Tory landslide was a lifetime ago Four years on, the party has forgotten what it was elected to do

Monday

11.12

Even Democrats are waking up to America’s campus crisis Concerns about the state of higher education have reached the White House

City Supervisor: San Francisco is not progressive enough Dean Preston defended his approach to tackling crime and homelessness in the city

The hidden meaning behind Alex Jones’s return to X Elon Musk has reinstated the InfoWars host on the platform

Mary Harrington

It’s too soon to topple Rishi Sunak Budding assassins on the Tory Right should hold fire if they want to reach power

The West is wrong about China’s economy Rumours of an impending collapse are greatly exaggerated

Philip Pilkington

Sunday

10.12

More than one in eight African Americans deny the Holocaust A new poll finds that anti-Israel feeling has developed into more extreme forms

The Battle for San Francisco Watch our documentary investigation into a city on the edge

UPenn president’s resignation could be a turning point Liz Magill stepped down following a Congressional hearing on antisemitism

Saturday

09.12

Conservatives are too obsessed with TikTok The platform is dangerous — but not for the reasons the Right thinks

Friday

08.12

Is TikTok really making young Americans antisemitic? Republican Nikki Haley made a questionable claim this week

Scotland’s gender ruling is a victory for feminists The UK Government's veto of Holyrood's self-ID bill has been ruled lawful

Has Japan’s MeToo moment finally arrived? A series of sex scandals has rocked the country

Boris Johnson is still in denial about lockdowns The UK Covid inquiry is shamefully avoiding the biggest lesson of 2020

Jay Bhattacharya

Does Germany have a special responsibility towards Israel? Saxony-Anhalt wants new citizens to recognise the Jewish state's right to exist

Thursday

07.12

Jenrick’s departure is more serious than Braverman’s The former minister was seen as a loyalist to the PM

The EU is falling behind China Ursula von der Leyen's summit with Xi Jinping will yield few results

A small boats election is Rishi Sunak’s best chance Immigration is the only issue where the Tories and Labour truly differ

Why are people still denying Hamas’s rapes? Graphic reports this week continue to be ignored

If anyone can save the BBC, it’s Samir Shah The new chair understands the difference between reporting and campaigning

Wednesday

06.12

The rise of campus antisemitism should come as no surprise The loss of viewpoint diversity in higher education has played a major role

Saudi Arabia is turning away from the West Vladimir Putin's visit shows that the world order might be changing

Louis-Vincent Gave

Should we welcome a ‘cure’ for autism? Breakthrough research has led to a divide in the medical community

Joe Biden should listen to Republicans on the border crisis The President is passing up a political victory

James Cleverly’s migrant proposal is not conservative The scheme is cruel and wholly ineffective

A vote for Labour is a vote for Stonewall The organisation's influence still pervades the party

Tuesday

05.12

America is trapped in the Middle East As the Gaza conflict intensifies, Joe Biden has no good options left

Is Ukraine turning on Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Recent comments from Vitali Klitschko reveal a wider dissatisfaction

Bethany Elliott

Trump terror is back America's liberal media is in a frenzy about the dictator's return

Can Geert Wilders defeat the Dutch establishment? A Brexit-style logjam is holding up party negotiations

Monday

04.12

Doctor Who: the latest symptom of the BBC’s decline The broadcaster's upcoming licence renewal could spark a viewer exodus

Why women deserve their own sport category — even in pool It is shameful that we cannot celebrate female exceptionality

Canada’s suicide hotline reveals Justin Trudeau’s dystopia Euthanasia has been reduced to a bureaucratic detail

Mary Harrington

Keir Starmer’s phoney admiration for Margaret Thatcher The current Labour Party has no connection to small business

Opec+ is losing control of the oil market Short sellers are artificially driving down the price of the commodity

Philip Pilkington

Sunday

03.12

New York Times publishes bizarre case for youth gender transition The paper's latest op-ed is littered with half-truths and misdirections

Eliza Mondegreen

Saturday

02.12

The UK Covid Inquiry is asking the wrong questions If most politicians broke their own rules, was it really the right approach?

Will science or sunlight save the miserable modern man? Not everyone agrees with Bryan Johnson's biomedical approach to health

Friday

01.12

Just how authentic is Taylor Swift? The singer is the inspiration for Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Canada’s trans activism goes into overdrive Justin Trudeau's government is pressing ahead with a series of radical measures

How to avoid South Korea’s demographic disaster Economic and cultural burdens are putting off potential parents

The Ron DeSantis show is back on the air Last night's debate saw the return of the TV showman who won Florida

Alistair Darling was a rare kind of politician The former Chancellor was never a man for grandstanding

Thursday

30.11

Why MSNBC cancelled Mehdi Hasan’s show The host's vocal pro-Palestine commentary made his position untenable

What football taught Henry Kissinger The diplomat's passion for the game shaped his attitude to geopolitics

The BBC has chosen the misinformation market over Newsnight The corporation is pivoting to the performative journalism of BBC Verify

‘Being Irish’ has lost its meaning An older conception of romantic nationalism is slipping away

Left-wing women are learning to love Right-wing men Political division has become a sexual fetish

Henry Kissinger was America’s last Wise Man The final remnant of the Old Establishment has died

The US might find an ally in Javier Milei’s Argentina The soon-to-be president is unapologetically pro-West

Ralph Schoellhammer

Wednesday

29.11

Busting the Bill Gates myth Author Tim Schwab takes aim at the billionaire philanthropist

The media is bringing Covid-era alarmism to swine flu Publications are already exaggerating the risks of another virus

Why China may welcome a Trump presidency The President's isolationist tendencies could yield surprising results

Poland’s truckers blockade border with Ukraine The EU cannot ignore this 'peasants' revolt' any longer

Britain’s opioid crisis is only just beginning The synthetic opioid Nitazene now poses a bigger threat than fentanyl

Tuesday

28.11

Is racial segregation coming back to America’s schools? Chicago is using an unusual tactic to reduce gaps among its students

It’s not just Britain suffering from poor growth All Western countries are facing similar economic headwinds

Tony Blair Institute annual turnover up by $40 million Latest accounts show that the organisation has enjoyed a bumper year

Puberty blocker use on the rise in the UK The NHS's clampdown on the controversial treatment is failing

Eliza Mondegreen

Monday

27.11

Joe Biden is quietly pumping more oil than Trump did The US is producing more crude per day than at any point in history

The West is turning away from COP28’s green agenda The middle and working classes are tiring of draconian climate policies

Why is my family getting peerage spam? A booming industry is helping clients buy honours

Mary Harrington

China’s debt crisis is getting worse Xi Jinping is overseeing a major economic slide