October 24, 2025

NBA scandal reveals how gambling has corrupted the game

Jess Phillips has betrayed grooming gangs survivors Her ‘safeguarding’ title feels like satire

Is Caerphilly just a hiccup in Farage’s Welsh takeover? Reform UK came second to Plaid Cymru in last night’s by-election

Islamic extremist network is spreading in Birmingham The TLP calls for the murder of its enemies and the destruction of Israel

Thursday

23.10

New oil sanctions will not stop Russia’s war machine

Jennifer Kavanagh

JD Vance’s Israel rebuke is a long-overdue reality check The Vice President is right to oppose the Jewish state’s maximalist ambitions

Why Britain’s churches are disappearing Talk of a ‘Quiet Revival’ is yet to be felt in the pews

Grooming gangs inquiry could be fatal blow to Starmerism Survivors have condemned the Government’s approach to justice

OpenAI’s new browser is a security risk

Andrew Orlowski

Wednesday

22.10

Trump’s Argentinian beef plan sparks MAGA backlash The President’s attempt to boost Javier Milei has angered his own coalition

Emily Jashinsky

Will Muslim vote propel Zohran Mamdani to victory? He is capitalising on the city’s demographic changes

British Indians are shifting to Reform UK

Louvre heist blame game ignores France’s decline The museum has boosted its budget without improving security

Francois Valentin

Wikipedia’s falling traffic is an opening for new platforms Users are losing trust in the online resource

Ashley Rindsberg

Is King Charles overstating social media’s role in Manchester attack? Online radicalisation is not the primary reason for jihadi violence

Tuesday

21.10

Zohran Mamdani is a neoliberal, not a socialist

Trans ID decline points to social contagion New research links changing trends in gender identity to age and cultural pressures

Lisa Selin Davis

Burqa ban would only harden Britain’s religious divisions Robert Jenrick mistakes a symptom of Islamic radicalism for a cause

AWS outage exposes fragility of our ‘smart tech’ The cloud’s brief collapse revealed major systemic risks

Mary Harrington

Scrapping NCHIs is not the end of the thought police Officers are still wasting time on enforcing social orthodoxies

Josephine Bartosch

Surging membership turns Greens into counter-populist power

Monday

20.10

Democrats’ anti-Trump strategy is running out of road Voters are tuning out the party’s constant attacks on the President

Michael Baharaeen

Antidepressant craze won’t cure Gen Z sadness Happy pills have been recast as a cool lifestyle accessory

Kristina Murkett

Israel-Hamas clashes will not break the ceasefire Both sides will tolerate low levels of violence

No Kings protests can’t overlook workers

Met investigation could be a reckoning for Prince Andrew Officers won’t accept being thrown under a bus for such a discredited figure

Sunday

19.10

US Tomahawk refusal protects Ukraine from false hope This week’s diplomacy dealt a firm blow to magical thinking

Jennifer Kavanagh

Trump’s India strategy is a gift to China New Delhi denied the US President’s claims that it had stopped buying Russian oil

Kapil Komireddi

Who will survive the AI crash? Only a handful of companies will last

Prince Andrew’s title surrender reveals a ruthless Firm

Saturday

18.10

After the Hunt is not an ‘anti-woke’ film Luca Guadagnino’s new project portrays both Left and Right as hollow virtue-signallers

Labour MP: the establishment parties have no connection to electorate Graham Stringer today argued that the political class has failed