The police have faced down protestors for the past two weeks. Credit: Getty.
26 Apr 2026 - 2:00pm

Epsom protests show how quickly distrust turns into disorder Information vacuums can lead to dangerous outcomes

Felix Pope

26.04

Zack Polanski is repeating the fiction of Scottish victimhood ScotNats aren’t freedom fighters

Iain Macwhirter

Saturday, 25 April

25.04

Comparing assisted suicide to gay marriage is deeply misguided Kim Leadbeater still doesn’t understand the dangerous holes in her bill

Adam James Pollock

25.04
By 2039, Berlin wants the strongest army in Europe. Credit: Getty

Germany’s military expansion won’t convince young people to enlist

Katja Hoyer

25.04

EU’s €90 billion Ukraine loan masks growing divisions in Brussels European leaders are losing patience with Zelensky

Wolfgang Munchau

Friday, 24 April

24.04

Is DEI really in decline? Evidence suggests little change in underlying hiring practices

John Murawski

24.04

Trump’s Falklands threat ignores lessons of 1982 war America sees Nato in increasingly instrumental terms

Richard Vinen

24.04
A national reckoning for marijuana is underway. Credit: Getty.

Marijuana reclassification is a surrender to Big Weed

Josh Appel

24.04

Reform UK’s curriculum shake-up is hollow patriotism Authentic national stories aren’t created by politicians

Ralph Leonard

24.04

Surging business costs threaten UK’s economic stability An inflationary spiral is looming

Andrew O'Brien

Thursday, 23 April

23.04

Marc Andreessen’s MTS shows doomscrolling is not a business model Monitoring the situation has its limits

James Billot

23.04
In the discussion, Hasan Piker defended petty theft from corporations as morally tolerable. Credit: New York Times.

‘Microlooting’: the latest example of elite moral confusion

Santiago Vidal Calvo

23.04

Are doctors overdiagnosing depression? A new Gallup poll paints a misleading picture

Carolyn D. Gorman and Esme Vroom

23.04

Is Zack Polanski about to purge the Green Party? He is rumoured to be dumping some unpopular policies

Peter Franklin

23.04

Keep activism out of Shakespeare Too many actors are using the playwright for their own political purposes

Oliver Bennett

Wednesday, 22 April

22.04
JK Rowling has previously rejected the chance to go on The Rest Is Politics. Credit: Getty.

JK Rowling’s invitation to The Rest Is Politics is too little, too late

Joan Smith

22.04

Why young men can’t escape the family home Cultural and economic pressures have held my generation back

Josiah Gogarty

22.04

Is Joe Rogan too confident about ibogaine? The podcaster may be out over his skis on the drug’s potential

Kevin Sabet

22.04

Alex Jones and Infowars are casualties of the conspiracy machine A never-ending search for the ‘truth’ was always going to backfire

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, 21 April

21.04

Apple lost its vision under Tim Cook The company’s outgoing CEO lacked the innovative qualities of his predecessor

David Auerbach

21.04
‘Elite troops are making the reasonable calculation that special forces operations are just too personally risky.’ Credit: Getty

Starmer’s legal worldview is a betrayal of the SAS

Chris Bayliss

21.04

Fines are the only way to uphold university free speech Campus administrators have been too deferential to students and lobby groups

Samuel Rubinstein

21.04

An unemployment crisis could break Labour A new report warns of significant job losses after the Iran war

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, 20 April

20.04
‘Hands up if you’re moving Left.’ Credit: Getty

Obama is anointing Mamdani as his Democratic successor

Emily Jashinsky

20.04

Medical establishment wakes up to the harms of Alzheimer’s drugs Much-trumpeted treatments have been found to have minimal effect

Margaret McCartney and Deborah Cohen

20.04

Trump is squandering his immigration legacy A run of legislative defeats has undermined the President’s authority

Fred Bauer

20.04

Why hasn’t group behind antisemitic London attacks been proscribed? Hayi has launched a series of terrorist operations against Jewish sites

Limor Simhony Philpott

20.04
Mandelson long advocated for a softer Government stance on Beijing. Credit: Getty

China, not Epstein, is the real Mandelson scandal

Luke de Pulford

Sunday, 19 April

19.04

Cash makes a comeback as Europeans prepare for war Financial reliance on the US poses problems for central banks

Susanne Mundschenk

19.04

Jordan Bardella is splitting from Marine Le Pen The RN president has distanced himself from his mentor’s more statist policies

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

19.04
‘If it’s important to speak and write about misogyny directly, then it’s time to stop vilifying those who are doing this already.’ Credit: Getty

The Guardian is late to the party on sex-based reporting

Victoria Smith

19.04

Epsom rape case exposes falling trust in police Protests in Surrey are fuelling anger against officers

Dominic Adler