Thirsty for more fiscal headroom. (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

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Thames Water saga leaves Burnham with nowhere to hide

Friday, 28 August

Democrats should not build bridges with the DSA It will hurt the party in the long run

Michael Baharaeen

Competing with YouTube will degrade the BBC Matt Brittin has proposed a public service algorithm to rival social media

Timandra Harkness

Russia does not want a war with Europe Putin has nothing to gain from opening a new front

Jennifer Kavanagh

Britain doesn’t have a grooming gang problem. It has a mafia problem A new report details the scourge of clan-based criminal networks

Mary Harrington

'Some commentators have not been arguing from a point of principle but instead from a kind of motivated reasoning.' Credit: Getty

Canada-US trade war has exposed a Brexit double standard

Richard Johnson

Thursday, 27 August

‘Prislam’ is radicalising Britain’s inmates Vulnerable prisoners are converting for protection

Andy Burnham’s Israeli boycott is a bid to appease the Left He will suffer few political consequences

Don’t cancel ‘The Rest is History’ over Gary Lineker Moral purity tests rarely end well

Bradley Townsend is reportedly the first British volunteer to be killed fighting for Russia in the war with Ukraine. Credit: Getty

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

Wednesday, 26 August

Stanley Druckenmiller’s AI use signals a bleak future for writing Every ChatGPT column makes original thought a little rarer

The Greens are dangerously wrong about Tasers Police forces depend on this weapon as a non-lethal alternative to firearms

Why is JK Rowling being smeared as a Holocaust denier? The latest attack on the author reveals trans activism’s moral emptiness

'Dolly Parton ended her days universally beloved — and deservedly so.' Credit: Getty

Dolly Parton symbolised a vanishing America

Has Giorgia Meloni abandoned the populist Right? She has transformed into an establishment conservative

William Nattrass

Tuesday, 25 August

Trump is sacrificing ranchers for cheaper beef Washington wants immediate savings while breeders face years of uncertainty

Banning cousin marriage won’t make it disappear The state is no longer strong enough to enforce social change

El-Sayed paid no political penalty for taking CAIR’s money. Credit: Getty

Why is Abdul El-Sayed taking money from a Hamas-linked network?

Mark Carney can win by walking away from a US trade deal Rising anti-American sentiment suggests Ottawa is willing to play the long game

Britain’s mounting debt is a warning for Labour John Healey still doesn’t have a clear plan

Monday, 24 August

Why can’t the anti-war Left condemn Iran? Criticising one tyranny shouldn’t mean excusing another

Labour’s cigar crackdown is a war on pleasure Beauty and luxury have been sacrificed on the altar of public health

Richard Crampton-Platt

In defence of the DSA’s champagne socialists There’s nothing hypocritical about rich kids fighting for the working class

The Kremlin is capitalising on European division. Credit: Getty

Putin is building a saboteur army across Europe

Bethany Elliott

New Henry Nowak revelations fuel the Right’s distrust of police The public now views officers’ actions with suspicion

Sunday, 23 August

California’s green agenda is putting its future at risk Soaring energy costs threaten to crush the Golden State’s innovation economy

Great Expectations has been 'translated' into teen speak. Credit: Will Ireland/Pinpep

Bare Expectations is more Dickensian than you think

Reform UK has forgotten Thatcherism’s original purpose Its economic programme risks protecting the very interests it should challenge

James Sean Dickson

Saturday, 22 August

Why is the US government meddling in the Nathan Cofnas affair? An obscure university shows how academic freedom becomes a political weapon

'What is happening to the US is something that is well known to us Europeans — a toxic debt-interest-rate dynamic.' Credit: Getty

The eurozone crisis is a warning to America

Wolfgang Munchau

The Lib Dems are becoming Labour’s lapdogs Ed Davey’s party needs to offer far tougher opposition to the Government

Friday, 21 August

Trump’s Iran Economic D-Day is delusional Tehran is adept at absorbing financial blows

Daniel L. Davis