‘The Prime Minister has enjoyed ample room to navigate successive crises over the years.’ Credit: Getty

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Is this the end of Pedro Sánchez? The Spanish PM has weathered a series of corruption scandals in office

Keir Starmer is turning online safety into a moral panic Plans to restrict teenagers’ social media use are rooted in ignorance

Thursday, 28 May

Elite college faculty donations skew heavily Left New research shows a lack of ideological balance at top universities

Justice is served. Credit: Getty

Hampshire rape case is a stain on Britain’s liberal judges

Western leaders are in denial about Ukraine’s war losses Kyiv is still struggling on the battlefield

Wolfgang Munchau

Rachel Reeves’s ‘Buy British’ plan is fantasy economics Labour isn’t ready to overhaul its industrial strategy

Wednesday, 27 May

‘Who, me?’ Credit: Getty

Tony Blair’s essay attacks the problems Blairism created

Philip Cunliffe

Social media has pushed teenage boys towards chatbot romances Relationships with AI companions are on the rise

Kristina Murkett

Birmingham, not Manchester, is Britain’s second city It may be uncool, but it has had a profound impact on national life

Is Keir Starmer listening? Credit: Getty

Labour’s women problem is worse than Jess Phillips thinks

Tuesday, 26 May

Pope Leo’s encyclical fails to challenge the AI threat His landmark publication is too light on the nature of consciousness

H-1B visas are tearing Silicon Valley apart Americans are being displaced by cheap foreign labour

Antonio de Loera-Brust

Normalisation of ties with Israel remain a sticking point for several countries in the Middle East. Credit: Getty

Trump’s push to expand Abraham Accords is delusional

Farage’s feud with Elon Musk is dividing the Right The billionaire’s support for Restore Britain could impact the Makerfield by-election

Samuel Rubinstein

Monday, 25 May

SpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacy The US sees another opportunity for industrial expansion

Reform UK’s tax cuts promise is a sign of political immaturity Short-termist policies could undermine Farage if he reaches power

'Any public betrayal would further damage Moscow’s reputation as a reliable patron of client states.' Credit: Getty

Fraying Russia-Iran ties were inevitable

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, 24 May

It is absurd to condemn Charles Dickens as racist Placing modern moral expectations on Victorian writers is a fool’s game

Why are so many MPs suffering from burnout? Carla Denyer is taking several weeks away from Parliament due to stress

Adam James Pollock

BBC needs more than a ‘sat nav’ to root out bias New DG Matt Brittin is seeking to restore editorial rigour to the corporation

Saturday, 23 May

Why Andy Burnham needs Shabana Mahmood Taking back the Red Wall means implementing strong immigration reform

Was Tulsi Gabbard the last America First believer in the White House? Credit: Getty

Tulsi Gabbard resignation marks the end of America First foreign policy

Trans report shows how far Amnesty UK has fallen The charity once encouraged women to find their voice — now it wants to silence them

Friday, 22 May

Trump’s Castro indictment will turn screws on Cuban regime Havana faces increasing political, economic, and potentially coercive pressure

Makerfield is a lost cause for the Greens Zack Polanski’s party risks allowing a Reform UK victory

'There is now an urge in the conspiracist’s mind to turn over every premise and inspect it for evidence of falsity.' Credit: Candace Owens/YouTube

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens are united by grievance politics

Stephen Colbert represented the worst of establishment liberalism His final CBS show highlighted his political impotence

David Masciotra

Looming Israeli election may spell the end for Netanyahu He has doubled down on unpopular domestic policies

Thursday, 21 May

‘The headline fall in net migration is therefore less about a surge in departures than a slowdown in arrivals.’ Credit: Getty

UK net migration drop has only just begun

‘Teen takeovers’ reflect breakdown of adult authority Abuse and neglect at home are major drivers of youth disorder

Santiago Vidal Calvo

UK’s easing of Russian oil sanctions was unavoidable The Iran war has limited our market options

Labour risks sacrificing the centre to chase the Left Aping the Greens is not a winning strategy