Can Nigel Farage save Britain’s falling birth rates? Reform UK is trying to win over families

Phoebe Arslanagic-Little

Christine Lagarde will keep WEF stuck in the past

Extra funds won’t fix the Metropolitan Police Britain’s forces have prioritised vanity projects over women’s safety

Wednesday

28.05

Trump’s visa ban on foreign officials is a blow to free speech The US President’s latest scheme is ideological, not principled

Japan’s baby name law reflects anxiety about modernity Tokyo is charting a return to tradition

Four in 10 British Pakistanis think first-cousin marriage should be legal

Is Germany turning on Israel? Friedrich Merz has changed his tone on the campaign in Gaza

Susanne Mundschenk

Trump is inching closer to confrontation with Russia Putin’s latest drone campaign has pushed America to act

Bethany Elliott

The hidden tension behind King Charles’s Canada visit

Tuesday

27.05

AI could turn Democrats into the new welfare class The rise of artificial intelligence is causing a sharp drop in graduate job opportunities

Why can’t Jordan Peterson say if he’s Christian? A recent debate showcases his struggle with the vulnerability of belief

Israel is a no-win issue for Starmer Labour cannot find a way to satisfy both sides

Richard Johnson

Putin would be foolish to attack Nato European officials are making overblown — and misleading — statements

Jennifer Kavanagh

Liverpool car-ramming: have police learnt from Southport?

Reform’s protectionist turn is a realignment of British Right Nigel Farage is swooping up disgruntled Labour voters

Monday

26.05

Democrats still don’t know how to win back men Party leaders are pouring millions into a problem they are struggling to fix

Michael Baharaeen

US intervention in Lucy Connolly case sets a dangerous precedent

Opec+ production hike is a gift to Trump Cartel nations may be looking to curry favour with the President

Restoring Boris won’t save the Tories — it will destroy them

Sunday

25.05

Is astrology part of Gen Z’s spiritual revival? Belief is once again rising among young people

Dwindling funds threaten Labour’s long-term stability A new report suggests the party is unable to balance its books this year

Trump is right to end George Floyd-era consent decrees The DOJ relied on bad data to support a convenient narrative

Jukka Savolainen

The EU is finally paying the price for its unfair trade practices

Saturday

24.05

DC shooting signals rise in social media-driven violence The online world is inspiring copycat killers

Americans love unions — so why doesn’t the GOP? Establishment Republicans are still in thrall to Wall Street

Why won’t MPs defend artists over AI copyright? Lawmakers voted against a proposal that would have protected creatives

Teen health is in crisis — and our culture is to blame A new report claims that half a billion adolescents will be overweight by 2030

Stella O'Malley

Friday

23.05

Trump’s Harvard foreign student ban is an attack on free speech

MAHA Commission report is a challenge to Big Pharma RFK Jr is set on taking apart the country’s NGO complex

Alasdair MacIntyre: the original post-liberal philosopher He recognised the roots of modernity’s moral confusion

Another round of European sanctions won’t deter Putin

Bethany Elliott

UK net migration has fallen — but the crisis isn’t over Economic pressures will return if the country’s labour model isn’t reformed

Thursday

22.05

The steroid Olympics are here to stay Peter Thiel’s Enhanced Games have attracted elite athletes

US bond sell-off is creating a debt spiral

Trump’s populist agenda needs more than a Big Beautiful Bill Cutting taxes won’t create better lives for blue-collar Americans

Kneecap are victims of the Anglo-Irish divide Support for terrorism barely raises an eyebrow in Belfast

Why MAGA believes in South Africa’s ‘white genocide’ theory Trump has given succour to previously fringe claims

Is Right-wing extremism really Germany’s greatest threat? Political violence has increased on all sides of the spectrum

Ralph Schoellhammer

Wednesday

21.05

Trump’s Golden Dome is a high-stakes gamble

Fake summer reading list exposes AI threat to journalism Two local papers admitted to publishing guides with non-existent authors

Incel coverage is fuelling a moral panic A new report has triggered another wave of alarmist media stories

Democrats will never find a liberal Joe Rogan The party’s search for a new podcasting giant is woefully misguided

Emily Jashinsky

Giving Ozempic to 20 million Brits would be disastrous The Tony Blair Institute is wrong to demand expanded eligibility for weight-loss drugs

Kristina Murkett

Kemi Badenoch isn’t taking the Lib Dem threat seriously

Tuesday

20.05

Pam Bondi is right: the DoJ isn’t impartial

Nvidia’s Middle East expansion is a bet against China America is dropping its previous aversion to chip exports to Gulf states

New Gaza offensive is turning Netanyahu’s allies against him Domestic and international partners are losing patience with the Israeli PM

Who really benefits from EU youth mobility scheme?

Philip Cunliffe

Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn reveals a government without direction Voters are clamouring for national improvement

Monday

19.05

Was Biden’s cancer diagnosis covered up? Suspicion is growing over when the President was first diagnosed

Bernie Sanders: Democrats are a threat to democracy

Gary Lineker exit has exposed BBC’s double standards Corporation rules around political views are deeply muddled

Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism Internet subcultures are teetering into real-world violence

Mary Harrington

My night with Romania’s defeated populists George Simion’s loss has not ended the country’s populist groundswell

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call Russia has no incentive to concede while it is winning on the battlefield

Jennifer Kavanagh

Donald Tusk is powerless to stop Poland’s Right-wing wave

Sunday

18.05

Moody’s US credit rating downgrade has spooked investors Is Trump taking the budget deficit seriously enough?

New report exposes fallacy of UK Net Zero target Economic growth is being stifled by high energy prices

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue Why didn’t the Tories reduce Britain’s bloated overseas development programme?

Saturday

17.05

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Wolfgang Munchau

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe? Friedrich Merz’s agenda is fraught with obstacles

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs Rebuffed by Albania, Keir Starmer is having to look elsewhere for ‘third countries’

Friday

16.05

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI The university is finding ways to evade the President's executive orders

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ glitch: a cautionary tale for AI’s future

Is the NHS caving to pressure over trans clinic age limits? Activists continue to resist the Cass Review

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace Putin and Zelensky’s non-attendance has rendered these negotiations pointless

Bethany Elliott

Do Labour MPs really support Starmer’s immigration crackdown? They are torn between their convictions and the Reform threat

Thursday

15.05

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Michael Baharaeen

Assisted dying bill is crumbling under late amendments

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story A dogged journalist, he brought wider attention to awful crimes

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters Americans are fleeing coastal cities for Republican strongholds

Are we over-medicalising neurodivergence? ‘Face blindness’ should not fall into the same category as autism

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

14.05

David Hogg saga exposes fecklessness of Democrats The party is trying to evade any internal criticism

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

Trump’s Middle East tour seals end of Opec After years of dependence, America is charting a new course on energy

Ralph Schoellhammer

Pfizergate ruling increases pressure on Ursula von der Leyen The European Commission President has lost her transparency battle with the NYT

Scotland’s assisted dying vote guarantees nothing Disability campaigners are still putting up a fight to oppose the bill

Tuesday

13.05

Jake Tapper is wrong: Biden was declining long before 2024

Emily Jashinsky

Ruben Gallego launches centrist challenge inside Democratic Party The Arizona Senator has bucked the party line on immigration and other issues

Why is Josh Hawley the only Republican defending Medicaid? He is cementing his status as the GOP’s most authentic populist

Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work Are Scottish students really the victims of discrimination?

Iain Macwhirter

The NEU has abandoned women — and the law Britain’s largest teaching union is defying the Supreme Court's gender ruling

Josephine Bartosch