Is George Galloway’s sectarianism a sign of things to come? His strategy of targeting ethnic groups could lay the template for future leaders

Saturday

02.03

California deficit soars to $73 billion

Florida’s DEI purge takes new victim The state's leading university is gutting its $5 million programme

New poll hints at looming populist revolt in Britain ONS research shows that only 12% of the public trust political parties

Friday

01.03

News round-up: George Galloway, Covid & gender clinics

Progressive attacks on the US constitution escalate

Mary Harrington

Denmark: a model for Keir Starmer’s Britain? Spurned by Rochdale, the Labour leader needs new inspiration

Gaza is tearing the New York Times apart Managing is acting to quell a staff rebellion over a podcast episode on Hamas

Ashley Rindsberg

George Galloway MP: a tribune for anti-politics His Rochdale victory will foster more division in Britain

Seizing Russian asset profits will backfire Ursula von der Leyen wants to reignite interest in a bad idea

Ralph Schoellhammer

Thursday

29.02

Oprah’s weight loss hypocrisy is an insult to followers The talk show host quit WeightWatchers after admitting to using Ozempic

News round-up: prostitution, Willy Wonka & Nikki Haley

West End play’s ‘black-only’ audience nights are sinister

Sarah Everard Inquiry: a damning indictment of the Met The Angiolini report reveals failures at every point in the system

Mitch McConnell may have one last trick up his sleeve A planned withdrawal could give him more room to manoeuvre

Will Labour introduce a blasphemy law? The party's adopted definition of 'Islamophobia' has legal implications

Wednesday

28.02

News round-up: Gaza ceasefire, Snoop Dogg & weed

Why is Macron meeting Kylian Mbappé again? The President is keenly aware of the French striker's political importance

Jonathan Wilson

Giorgia Meloni suffers first major setback in Sardinia The centre-Left opposition swept to power in the regional election

Fans turn on ‘body-positive’ influencers for losing weight Social-media celebrities are falling prey to a vicious cycle

Gaza protest vote overshadows Biden Michigan win

Tuesday

27.02

News round-up: Immigration, Andrew Tate & Sleepy Joe

Sweden is too starry-eyed about Nato National security is about more than international alliances

Johan Wennström

How many Ukrainian soldiers have died? Volodymyr Zelensky's claim of 31,000 deaths is a wild underestimate

Sumantra Maitra: the US has never faced a challenge like China The analyst warned that war would bring deaths on a scale not seen in generations

Sir Patrick Vallance joins Tony Blair Institute

Why is the BBC calling Scarlet Blake a woman? Coverage ignores a basic biological fact about the murderer

Josephine Bartosch

Monday

26.02

News round-up: NYT heretics, Rupert Murdoch and BBC pronoun policing

Poll: 28% of young Democrats voting ‘uncommitted’ over Biden in Michigan

Diversity drive hinders British Army recruitment The military is bemoaning largely self-inflicted problems

Fall in house prices won’t save the market Reports of the property sector's comeback are premature

‘Instagram moms’ are facilitating paedophiles — report A New York Times article lays bare the disturbing rise of girl influencers

Eliza Mondegreen

The Houthi air strikes aren’t working Western responses to Red Sea blockades have been counterproductive

Philip Pilkington

Sunday

25.02

Project 2025: a wish list for the American Right

Why Nikki Haley won’t quit Defeat to Trump in South Carolina is not the end of her campaign

Emily Jashinsky

Saturday

24.02

The case against Shamima Begum Her suffering does not justify her return to Britain

New app uses AI to hunt down cheating spouses 'Oops Busted!!' raises major privacy concerns

Madeleine Stone

Friday

23.02

Yale turns its back on DEI policies

News round-up: Google bias, Bill Ackman & British academia fightback

Britain’s falling divorce rates: a victory for feminism? Marriage break-ups are at their lowest level for 50 years

Is Tulsi Gabbard going to endorse Donald Trump? Once a Democratic rising star, the ex-congresswoman has moved increasingly to the Right

Expect Google’s Gemini 2.0 to be even worse When it comes to AI, the cure is often worse than the disease

Liz Truss’s mysterious turn against globalism

Thursday

22.02

What’s behind the Chinese migrant surge at the US border? Certain US commentators have expressed fears about CCP infiltration

News round-up: failing sanctions, DEI, & CPAC merch

Israelis push for Netanyahu to resign

Is the Nvidia boom built on sand? The tech company's stock has surged off the back of the AI revolution

Philip Pilkington

Christian nationalism: the Left’s new campaign target Fear of Trump has given way to concerns about the religious Right

Ceasefire vote chaos deepens Labour divisions Keir Starmer is losing control over his party's foreign policy

Wednesday

21.02

News round-up: RFK Jr’s fickle voters, ‘racist’ Google AI & David Irving

Revealed: the Labour voters who’ll decide the next election New research examines a chunk of Britons currently propelling the party to victory

A second Ursula von der Leyen term would hurt Europe

Ralph Schoellhammer

Trans cyclist Emily Bridges: ‘elite sport is over for me’ Male athletes are still upset at being excluded from women's competition

Net Zero threatens 40% of UK households — report New research shows that the green energy transition will make the poor poorer

Tuesday

20.02

My day with the Julian Assange superfans

Panda La Terriere

News round-up: Irish censorship, work-shy Zoomers & The Resistance

Keir Starmer’s painful road to a ceasefire Labour's Gaza position has changed incrementally in recent months

Are Canada’s Conservatives adopting a MAGA approach to foreign policy?

Bill Browder: We need a Navalny Act The prominent Putin critic has pushed for further sanctions

Latika M. Bourke

Is Sue Gray the new Dominic Cummings? Keir Starmer has had to rein in his Chief of Staff over citizens' assemblies

Monday

19.02

Trump’s Sneaker Con appearance is a challenge to Biden Young voters are up for grabs this year

Nvidia: a market bubble waiting to burst

Higher defence spending won’t save Europe Budgetary and industrial constraints are dragging the continent down

Philip Pilkington

New study: trans youth not at elevated risk of suicide Finnish research questions a common assertion about dysphoric young people

Mary Harrington

Sunday

18.02

J.D. Vance: Trump was the best Russia deterrent The senator claimed that the former president was not in 'Putin's pocket'

Ezra Klein: another Democrat calls for Biden to step down

SNP looks to exploit Gaza tensions at Scottish Labour conference The Israel-Palestine conflict continues to cause Keir Starmer problems

Saturday

17.02

RFK Jr. winning young and ethnic minority support — analysis

Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps face legal reckoning Plaintiffs claim that parent company Match promotes 'addictive' behaviour

Magdalene J. Taylor

Germany weaponises new NGO bill against the Right A bill led by Olaf Scholz implicitly favours progressive causes

Ralph Schoellhammer

Friday

16.02

Alexei Navalny death spurs partisan bickering in US The news evoked fighting over Trump and Ukraine

New research finds three major types of ‘femcel’ frustration An analysis of 24,000 posts is one of the most comprehensive yet

News round-up: Israel poll, Elon Musk & a $50,000 scam

Alexei Navalny dead: a contested legacy Putin's most courageous opponent was not exactly a liberal

Katherine Bayford

If not Kamala Harris, who can replace Joe Biden? — analysis

French Playboy is no mouthpiece for the hard-Right Lifestyle magazines have always been political in La République

By-election results show the power of Reform It's 1997 all over again — but with a twist

Thursday

15.02

Divisive ‘ethnic studies’ spread through US high schools Educators are pushing racially-charged curricula

News round-up: Biden on TikTok, London’s train names & Tucker’s Moscow love-in

Does Putin really ‘prefer Biden to Trump’? Russia's leader is keeping us guessing

Bethany Elliott

London’s new train line names: not a ‘great man’ in sight

Mary Harrington

The EU will turn to Britain for nuclear protection If the US pulls out of Nato, the bloc has another ally it can depend on