The Secretary General is wrong to scaremonger. Credit: Getty

December 13, 2025

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other? Alarmist coverage is running ahead of the evidence

Friday

12.12

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK Mass immigration has prompted a rethink

Samuel Rubinstein

Great British Railways rebrand is hollow nostalgia Our train system should be a source of national pride, not an embarrassment

'The Pathways trial is the institutional repetition of a mistake we already made.' Credit: Getty

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses Leaked US documents prove that Brussels has no plan for peace or war

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday

11.12

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit? Maduro’s fall may be imminent, but a vacuum will be far more dangerous

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label Globalisation is giving us cheap, homogenised culture

Mattia Ferraresi

Tim Pool-Candace Owens feud reveals emptiness of e-politics Angry conspiracism is what passes as culture in our mimetic online world

Mary Harrington

New pals. Credit: Jordan Bardella

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

ECHR law changes won’t stop Britain’s activist lawyers Politics is increasingly limiting an independent judiciary

Wednesday

10.12

Almost half of the Golden State's job loses were from the tech industry. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty.

California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run

Why do so many Scottish pupils have additional support needs? Almost half of the country’s schoolchildren require assistance in education

Cutting police forces is a Government power grab Shabana Mahmood is seeking a more centralised model

Bisexuality plummets among Gen Z in UK ONS figures suggest we have reached the other side of a sexual revolution

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Should teachers really be banned for calling Britain a Christian country?

Tuesday

09.12

Jasmine Crockett run turns Texas into another lost Democratic cause Her inflammatory rhetoric will put off swing voters

Michael Baharaeen

$1 trillion trade surplus leaves China dangerously dependent Beijing’s export-oriented model could easily collapse

Sandie Peggie ruling is a surrender to trans activists An NHS nurse has won the smallest of victories in her employment tribunal

School flu lockdowns show Covid-era fear still rules Pandemic mistakes are being repeated across the country

Monday

08.12

Martin Parr, who died on Saturday, was one of Britain's most beloved photographers. Credit: Getty

When the mob came for Martin Parr

John Swinney is selling Scotland an energy fantasy He is turning a blind eye to the SNP’s own climate mistakes

Iain Macwhirter

Labour is sleepwalking into a farcical leadership contest Drawn-out Tory knife fights provide an example of what not to do

Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine Kyiv has become a financial burden

Bethany Elliott

Sunday

07.12

EU market reforms won’t bring back growth Necessary root-and-branch change is still politically impossible

‘It is a different kind of religion that seeks neither converts nor members.’ Credit: Getty

Paganism is the obvious religion for post-faith Britain

Thames Water is a test for the British economy Foreign investors are squeezing money from the UK public

Saturday

06.12

Netflix’s Warner Bros deal betrays its original purpose Its illusion of choice was long ago sacrificed to the algorithm

Labour women’s conference is not ‘banning trans people’ The party leadership is still running scared of activists

A long way from Downing Street. Credit: Liz Truss/X

The Liz Truss Show is sadder than it is funny

Friday

05.12

Venezuela war would undermine Trump’s National Security Strategy A new White House memo is full of contradictions on foreign policy

Why US mass killings are nearing a two-decade low Policing and social changes may be driving the decline

Robert VerBruggen