One part in, the Covid inquiry still isn’t providing answers Understanding the 'madness' of the lockdown era is easier said than done

Sunday

16.07

The AfD’s euroscepticism won’t appeal to German voters The party confuses its status as a protest vote for total endorsement

Ralph Schoellhammer

Saturday

15.07

Has the UK really ruled out cluster munitions? A directive reveals just how partial and incomplete the supposed ban is

Friday

14.07

Germany cuts long Covid and vaccine injury fund Health Minister Karl Lauterbach's decision has met with anger

Arlene Foster: I regret not bringing down UK government over Brexit deal The former Northern Ireland first minister spoke to UnHerd

TikTok’s weird new trend: humans pretending to be robots Creators have tapped into a market for 'non-playable characters'

Kristina Murkett

Is El Salvador the safest country in Latin America? President Nayib Bukele made the claim on Twitter this week

Thursday

13.07

Michael Gove: we asked the ‘daft laddie’ questions over Covid The senior Tory told the pandemic inquiry that politicians are amateurs

Off-duty police officers targeted in French riots A disturbing development is emerging in the country's quiet suburbs

Erdogan’s EU bid is not what it seems He knows the bloc won't embrace Turkey as a member

For Europe’s future defence, look to the ‘quad’ France, Britain, Poland and Ukraine are serious about security

Blue states are learning the wrong lessons from Portugal Drug policy involves more than just decriminalisation

Charles Fain Lehman

Wednesday

12.07

The ‘black manosphere’ got there long before Andrew Tate Today's influencers weren't the first to warn about the masculinity crisis

Prof Ashok Swain: the strange disappearance of the anti-war movement The academic talks Nato, cluster bombs and escalation in Ukraine

Nato offers Ukraine the worst of all worlds Half a promise is worse than no promise at all

Nancy Kelley leaves Stonewall in a mess The outgoing charity boss dragged a once-great organisation down a rabbit hole

Josephine Bartosch

As trust in the US falls, countries want their gold back The seizure of Russia's foreign reserves marked the end of fair-play capitalism

Philip Cunliffe

Tuesday

11.07

Blame cancel culture for declining trust in universities New polling shows just how far public confidence has plummeted

Being fit is far-Right now, apparently A series of articles equate healthy living with fascism

In defence of Twitter anons There may be downsides, but anonymity has given social media its energy

Gender surgeon promotes bizarre range of ‘nonbinary surgeries’ Blair Peters's field has strayed from the core tenets of medical care

Eliza Mondegreen

Monday

10.07

Bank of England: digital currency will be a ‘step forward’ But Governor Andrew Bailey had a caveat

Jonah Hill has become a victim of his own therapy The actor cloaked coercive demands to his ex with the language of self-care

Kristina Murkett

Farewell Mark Rutte, Europe’s last centrist dad The Dutch PM's brand of modern, moderate conservatism is no more

It’s too late for Joe Biden to make friends with China The President has spent too long ostracising Xi Jinping

Philip Pilkington

Calls for violence in the trans debate only come from one side An activist advocated punching feminists at a rally this weekend

The promise of Nato membership won’t help Ukraine Expect vague rhetoric as leaders gather in Vilnius this week

William Nattrass

Friday

07.07

Starmer on education: a mashup of Blair and Alain de Botton The Labour leader's big speech was wordy and short on substance

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters, the blame game begins Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised allies for delaying arms shipments

William Nattrass

Germany ‘needs 1.5 million new immigrants per year’ Olaf Scholz claims only new arrivals can save the country's pension system

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi Sunak will survive the ‘mini-general election’ But three by-elections later this month will be brutal for the Tories

France’s riots are following the George Floyd playbook Protesters have targeted elite gentrified areas

Thursday

06.07

The shadow of Pax Romana The fragility of the greatest empire haunts us

The Russian economy is outperforming Germany’s Sanctions have been proved dramatically ineffective

Wolfgang Munchau

LGB Alliance’s victory is another loss for gender ideology Mermaids tried — and failed — to get the group struck off the charity register

Will Threads finish off Elon Musk? Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter alternative targets an already wounded rival

The rewritten history of Captain Tom The story told about the war veteran was always strangely partial

Is Europe going cold on Net Zero? The EU and UK appear less firmly committed to net neutrality by 2050

Wednesday

05.07

Macron is right: the French rioters are bored kids Social media and violent popular culture have made a bad situation worse

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

China gears up for trade war with latest export controls Beijing has the semiconductor and defence industries in its sights

Philip Pilkington

Right-wing street fighters take on French rioters Radical youth movements are mobilising across the nation

Is Pearl Davis the female Andrew Tate? The anti-feminist influencer is capitalising on the trad fad

Tuesday

04.07

Ignore the naysayers on deep-sea mining The latest bout of virtue signalling came from William Hague

SNP’s Mhairi Black: Westminster is a ‘toxic environment’ The Scottish politician is standing down at the next election

Is French police brutality a myth? Commentators are wrong to suggest the country's officers are unusually violent

Why Labour shouldn’t do deals with other parties Keir Starmer was right to expel Neal Lawson

Richard Johnson

Rapist Isla Bryson complains of ‘transphobic abuse’ in prison He should never have been put in a women's jail in the first place

Monday

03.07

Blame food prices for France’s riots Energy sanctions over Ukraine are leading to soaring costs

Philip Pilkington

Lee Fang: Did Pfizer sponsor vaccine mandates? The journalist explores Big Pharma’s hold on American institutions

Selin Musillo-Ates

The real story behind the AfD’s rise The party is filling a vacuum on the German Right

Ralph Schoellhammer

Was Just Stop Oil right to disrupt Pride? The Left shouldn't restrict its protest to enemy territory

‘Ethical consumerism’ has turned against the consumer Nigel Farage won't be the last customer deemed undesirable by a bank

Mary Harrington

Friday

30.06

The Covid inquiry is creating a lockdown doctrine Shutting down harder and faster next time is the wrong idea

How the affirmative action ruling will shape the 2024 election The response of institutions like Harvard could play a pivotal role

Britcoin will bring in a new wave of financial censorship Emulating China’s digital currency threatens our civil liberties

Is China really still a ‘developing country’? The country's Premier made an odd claim to the World Economic Forum

Austin Williams

The Supreme Court won’t shatter the DEI dream But it’s a welcome start towards admissions fairness

Thursday

29.06

Bureaucrats will find ways around the Supreme Court ruling Race is still allowed to be considered indirectly in applications

GLAAD pushes Big Tech to censor trans ‘disinformation’ The organisation called for a clampdown on discussing gender-affirming care

Eliza Mondegreen

Ed Balls and George Osborne’s podcast is a centrist-dad paradise The Rest is Politics has some new competition

Is the Airbnb bubble bursting? The Big Tech business model no longer reigns supreme

Girls assaulted in gender-neutral toilets — as predicted A series of incidents at an Essex school shows the perils of self-ID

How a Breitbart hit piece backfired The publication faced a backlash for publishing private messages

Wednesday

28.06

UCLA refuses to hire professor who criticised DEI Yoel Inbar's appointment has been blocked by a student petition

NHS worship reaches new heights with Newsnight tribute Reverence for our health service is out of line with its performance

Will Yevgeny Prigozhin become the new Alexei Navalny? Putin would be unwise to make a martyr of the Wagner chief

Bethany Elliott

Even progressive voters don’t like racial affirmative action The Supreme Court should strike it down — and do the Democrats a favour

Cricket may be stuffy, but it’s not racist A new report conflates tradition with discrimination

Tuesday

27.06

Feminist wins harassment case against Arts Council England A tribunal agreed former employee Denise Fahmy had been unfairly treated

Retired US general: why I think Putin will go nuclear Kevin Ryan details why he believes the threat is underestimated

The biggest loser from the Bundesbank’s failure? The ECB The long-running battle between the two banks has taken another twist

Philip Pilkington

True crime obsessives won’t leave Nicola Bulley alone TikTok sleuths are part of an unhealthy trend

Kristina Murkett

Putin acknowledges Wagner’s threat — but has no solution The Russian leader looked visibly uncomfortable during his latest speech

Maximilian Hess

Monday

26.06

How the EU destroyed the Greek Left After this weekend's election, the country's Right is on the march

Rina Sawayama’s lesson in performative politics The singer's attack on Matty Healy was an appeal to online fandom

Mary Harrington

Rising mortgage rates threaten Tories’ Red Wall gains First-time homeownership has expanded rapidly in the region

Will Putin borrow from the Erdogan playbook? Turkey's President survived a similar coup attempt in 2016

Maximilian Hess

Sunday

25.06

The Covid inquiry is perpetuating a false narrative Experts claimed that they were prepared for the wrong pandemic

Did Yevgeny Prigozhin lose his nerve? The Wagner revolt will not be easily forgiven in the Kremlin

Bethany Elliott

Friday

23.06

Why is anime having an online renaissance? It has become the lingua franca of disaffected young men

Glastonbury has sacrificed its radicalism The festival is now just Coachella with brollies

Nicholas Harris

Hispanic approval of Joe Biden at record low Nearly two-thirds of this demographic disapprove of the President