How the Chinese spy balloon brought Americans together Faced with a foreign threat, the culture wars temporarily subsided

Mary Harrington

Is the gender bill Nicola Sturgeon’s poll tax moment? Both her ratings and the SNP's have slipped into negative territory

Friday

03.02

What’s the truth about Eliza Bleu — and does it matter? The anti-trafficking advocate's life story doesn't quite add up

Russia and Ukraine named as Europe’s most corrupt countries A new ranking index has dented Zelensky's EU aspirations

William Nattrass

There will be no ‘graceful defeat’ for the Tories Conservative hopes for a narrow electoral loss are delusional

How the Tories can win over the strikers A high-wage, pro-labour vision could bring the unions on side

Philip Cunliffe

The dark side of ESG: data ‘sweatshops’ New centres are springing up to provide ranking services — but at a grim cost

College-educated whites dominate the Democratic Party Will their progressive agenda alienate other racial groups?

Thursday

02.02

Michael Kofman: Is the Ukraine War headed for stalemate? The military analyst on the risks and rewards of Western intervention

It’s too late for the Democrats to ditch Kamala Harris Party members were too slow to publicly acknowledge her many flaws

German public support for Ukraine is falling New polls show that attitudes to the conflict may be shifting

Ralph Schoellhammer

The EU officially puts bugs on the menu Crickets and mealworm larvae have been approved for human consumption

Wednesday

01.02

The Premier League’s vast wealth is ruining world football England’s financial dominance is making other European leagues uncompetitive

The uncomfortable truth about Spain’s latest terror attack Why is it only the Right talking about the killer's Islamist background?

Jorge González-Gallarza

The writing is on the wall for George Santos The disgraced politician is alienating independents — and his own party

Why young people leaving the cities is bad for the Tories They are moving to so-called 'Benjamin Button areas'

Why are there so few female mass shooters? New data shows that 96% of spree killers are men

Tuesday

31.01

Stop blaming Brexit for bad growth Commentators were quick to leap on the IMF's latest report

Nigel Farage could be the big winner from Bregret A growing disillusion among Leave voters works in his favour

Giorgia Meloni’s latest cheerleader: The Economist The publication's initial fears about the leader never materialised

Monday

30.01

Peter Hitchens: the Covid censors are moving on to Ukraine The journalist warns that the Government is extending its surveillance

Why I don’t trust Sturgeon’s U-turn on trans prisoners Her decision is about optics, not female safety

How bad will the global housing market crash be? The metrics are eerily similar to 2008

Philip Pilkington

Donald Trump kicks off campaign with realist line on Russia The ex-president’s dovish stance is a challenge to the bipartisan consensus

Dylan Mulvaney’s new face is only the beginning Butchering your own body for entertainment will become commonplace

Mary Harrington

Sunday

29.01

Czech Republic votes against populist candidate Andrej Babiš The country has turned to former NATO chief Petr Pavel

William Nattrass

Friday

27.01

Ron DeSantis teaches Texas how to fight a culture war The Florida Governor is blazing a path for other states to follow

What Galop gets wrong about conversion therapy A new report inadvertently shows the pitfalls of state overreach on gender identity

Dominic Cummings: ‘The Deep State is real’ Officials are in control, says the former adviser, and that's often a good thing

Grayson Perry’s ‘Full English’ is a missed opportunity The artist's TV bid to discover the 'real' England is only a caricature

Nicholas Harris

Holocaust Memorial Day is for everyone — except Jews Modern commemoration of the genocide has lost all its meaning

Thursday

26.01

Meet Srdjan Djokovic, Novak’s troublemaking father Serbs won't be surprised by his antics in Australia

The EU’s trade war hypocrisy America is only copying what the European single market has done for decades

The myth of the workaholic billionaire Today's super-wealthy are just as lazy as the rest of us

Philip Cunliffe

Ukraine is on the verge of losing Bakhmut Western sources are now advising Kyiv to strategically withdraw

Why can’t the media get the Clydebank rapist’s pronouns right? The press is prioritising a criminal's feelings over women's safety

Wednesday

25.01

Census: two-thirds of transwomen list sex as female New ONS data contains a startling finding

How Germany’s tanks could make peace more likely Improving Ukraine's battlefield strength can ensure a prolonged stalemate

Ralph Schoellhammer

What’s the truth about casualty numbers in Ukraine? Inaccurate and piecemeal information has been a fixture of this war

Once again, America chooses Ireland over the UK The row over the Protocol is proof that the Irish-US bond is stronger than ever

Tuesday

24.01

Life after Zero Covid: markets bet big on China Vast inflows are flooding the Chinese stock market

Philip Pilkington

Is Ghislaine Maxwell gearing up for more revelations? Her TV appearance shows she will only protect Epstein's friends for so long

Can Donald Trump regain his Twitter touch? The former president was once the undisputed master of the medium

Russia realism makes a comeback in Central Europe Untrammelled support for Ukraine is no longer the default position

William Nattrass

Monday

23.01

What if David Cameron had never promised an EU referendum? A decade on from his pledge, it is worth asking how different Britain would look today

Why would South America want a single currency? The fragility of the Eurozone should be a warning for Brazil and Argentina

King Charles must represent the normie centre The coronation ceremony is bound to annoy the culture warriors

Mary Harrington

Politicians are mysteriously blind to trans activists’ misogyny Public abuse of women is now plain to see, from Glasgow to Westminster

Thousands of Russian convicts join the front line in Ukraine The Wagner Group militia is being replenished with freed prisoners

Bethany Elliott

Saturday

21.01

The UK’s hidden success story: the British Chinese The group has a proven record of academic and economic achievement

Friday

20.01

Autism: the latest front in the culture wars Activists across the political spectrum have weaponised the identity

What Bolshevism tells us about the future of wokeism After the revolution, the real terror may be yet to come

Japan downgrades Covid amid vaccine safety concerns The country is one of the most vaccine-sceptical in the world

Transhumanism is already here But the promise of utopia has failed to materialise

Mary Harrington

Keir Starmer tries to shake off Corbynite baggage at Davos The Labour leader's panel did not go as planned

Richard Johnson

Thursday

19.01

We are fighting for the preservation of Western civilisation The American thinker lays out his theory for modern anti-racism

Strikers are a welcome change from Just Stop Oil Protest has been wrestled back from the middle classes

Philip Cunliffe

What’s behind Olaf Scholz’s Ukraine hesitancy? The German Chancellor continues to drag his feet

Ralph Schoellhammer

Hear me out: Klaus Schwab used to be cool The WEF chairman once gave new and interesting voices a platform

Izabella Kaminska

Can the West keep arming Ukraine? As the conflict escalates, Zelenskyy's allies face a dilemma

Wednesday

18.01

The Left-wing case for a free speech tsar Arif Ahmed can help students rediscover the core values of higher education

The moral grandstanding behind San Francisco’s reparations plan The supposedly progressive city is alienating its black residents

The forgotten Tory blueprint for the NHS Before the Attlee government of 1945, Henry Willink MP had a plan

Henry Kissinger: Why I changed my mind about Ukraine The statesman believes the country should now join NATO

Tuesday

17.01

Matthew B. Crawford: the perpetual state of emergency The philosopher explains why states like to embrace endless crises

Cold War 2.0 will not be between China and the West A Davos panel offers an incorrect assessment

Philip Pilkington

I don’t have a Gender Recognition Certificate — and I don’t want one I don't require government-issued paperwork to prove that I am trans

Peace has become a dirty word in Central Europe Attitudes to the Ukraine war now form a major fault line on the continent

William Nattrass

Monday

16.01

The Public Order Bill is a danger to protest rights The Government's latest amendment will grant the state far too much power

Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun The French historian says that the West is now in an existential conflict

The Davos 2023 agenda lies in ruins The mood at this year’s WEF meeting is rather downbeat

Is Sergei Lavrov looking for a way out? One of Vladimir Putin's most loyal servants appears to be running out of steam

Bethany Elliott

Why Scotland’s gender reform bill affects the whole UK Rishi Sunak has the power, and justification, to block the bill

Friday

13.01

Joe Biden’s hypocrisy will hurt him The President has more in common with Donald Trump than he realises

The scientific case against face masks The press is once again promoting a measure proved to be ineffective

Leslie Bienen, Jeanne Noble and Margery Smelkinson

Tate criticised for Drag Queen Story Hour children’s readings Several groups claim the gallery is targeting kids with gender propaganda

Josephine Bartosch

The Brits go ‘gender-neutral’ and women disappear Only men are nominated in the new best artist category

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down This time, the heroine is not the tragic victim

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday

12.01

Andrew Bridgen: the latest example of Right-wing self-sabotage Using the Holocaust to discuss vaccine side-effects is counter-productive

Coleman Hughes: asking ‘where are you from?’ isn’t racist The writer responds to Prince Harry and Ngozi Fulani

The German Greens are playing into Russia’s hands The push for clean energy may, perversely, lead to more demand for Russian gas

Ralph Schoellhammer

Lynette ‘Diamond’ Hardaway represented the best and worst of Trump The entertainer was an influential part of the MAGA movement