04/29/2026 - 11:00am

It’s time to end the tyranny of service charge News of Gordon Ramsay’s increased tipping rate has caused a backlash

Richard Crampton-Platt

29.04

King Charles is the last statesman of a vanishing world His brilliant speech did not fully reflect the reality of the world in 2026

Niall Gooch

28.04

UAE break from Opec signals new era of energy independence Producers are building infrastructure to bypass threats rather than to connect markets

Kathryn Porter

28.04

Iran is racing against a shrinking de-escalation window The ongoing ceasefire looks more like a tactical pause

Susanne Mundschenk

28.04

Modern therapy is erasing responsibility

Stella O'Malley

28.04

Cole Allen wasn’t radicalized by Bluesky Users of the platform tend to have fixed worldviews before they join

Katherine Dee

28.04

Friedrich Merz’s Iran intervention won’t discourage Trump The German Chancellor has claimed Tehran is ‘humiliating’ America

Daniel DePetris

27.04

Jimmy Kimmel proves the White House can’t take a joke

Angel Eduardo

27.04

Why shouldn’t MPs drink on the job? Only a puritan would seek to shut down Parliament’s bars

Rowan Pelling

27.04

Cole Allen: another shooter shaped by elite overproduction

Oliver Bateman

27.04

Keir Starmer should not be afraid to sack Rachel Reeves A fear of destabilizing the markets has kept her position safe so far

Richard Johnson

26.04

Piers Morgan’s Russell Brand interview perfectly straddled old and new media

Samuel Rubinstein

25.04

Impeachment is a political trap for Democrats Trump can only be defeated at the ballot box

Sam Kahn

25.04

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

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

Marijuana reclassification is a surrender to Big Weed

Josh Appel

23.04

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

James Billot

23.04

‘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

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

Oliver Bennett

22.04

Southern Poverty Law Center indictment shows danger of progressive overreach The Left-wing nonprofit unfairly targeted conservatives across the political spectrum

Emily Jashinsky

22.04

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

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

The true Lori Chavez-DeRemer scandal: her empty record Trump’s departing labor secretary achieved almost nothing

Sohrab Ahmari

21.04

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

20.04

Obama is anointing Mamdani as his Democratic successor

Emily Jashinsky