Do Prevent’s latest figures tell us anything useful about extremist ideology in the UK? Credit: Getty

7 Aug 2026 - 2:00pm

Prevent is not giving an accurate picture of UK terror threat Record referrals this year are skewed by increases in reporting for particular categories

Killjoys are ruining Soho’s pubs Westminster Council is pushing to limit ‘vertical drinking’

Samantha Niblett is promoting a false trans narrative Her embarrassing new video misunderstands EHRC guidance

Thursday, 6 August

The future of MAGA? Credit: Tucker Carlson/X

Tucker Carlson is not a serious political candidate

UK knife homicides fall to 35-year low New figures show a sharp decline in violent deaths involving bladed weapons

Burnham’s borrowing plan won’t fix Britain’s economy Labour needs a manufacturing plan to achieve growth

The president of LSE has suggested that Labour's treatment of universities is on par with Donald Trump’s. Credit: Getty

Jason Arday affair masks a deeper university crisis

Philip Cunliffe

Wednesday, 5 August

Plurality of Britons think ‘misinformation’ is used to silence people New data shows that the country does not trust fact-checkers

The autism spectrum has become too broad Overdiagnosis risks inadequate treatment for the most seriously affected

Stella O'Malley

Rod Liddle, my opponent who became a friend His provocative columns belied a man with a deep respect for women

‘The RN will have the biggest battle on its hands, as it will have to do all this from within the EU, and by extension the ECHR.’ Credit: Getty

Marine Le Pen will be the key to Reform UK’s small boats policy

Tuesday, 4 August

Is the age of slop films coming to an end? Brand-based productions are performing poorly at the box office

Spencer A. Klavan

Don’t be fooled by Burnham’s prisoner release reform The PM is tinkering at the edges rather than revamping the system

Democrat supporters were reeling from Harris’ 2024 loss — was Biden’s initial decision to run the 'single point of failure' for the party? Credit: Getty

The DNC is stuck in a death spiral

Emily Jashinsky

Rupert Lowe could force a Reform U-turn on the death penalty Capital punishment is increasingly popular among Nigel Farage’s base

Bethany Elliott

Monday, 3 August

Has Ariana Grande killed body positivity? A culture of acceptance is giving way to something stranger

Sam Altman’s big idea for parents: more ChatGPT The OpenAI boss wants to embed LLMs into family life

Can Tucker Carlson turn disaffected MAGA voters into a new political force? Credit: Getty

Tucker Carlson’s antiwar movement is Trump’s bad conscience

Andy Burnham doesn’t need a written constitution Britain’s current settlement gives the PM enough power

Lee David Evans

Rupert Lowe can save the Right by sacrificing himself The Restore leader should bury the hatchet with Nigel Farage

Sunday, 2 August

Trump’s paid media service could be his Infantino moment Selling priority access to the president's Truth Social posts degrades the office

Finkelstein (L) said he was no longer interested in speaking to Israelis. Credit: YT

Norman Finkelstein and Hasan Piker reveal the Left’s double standard on Israel

Friedrich Merz has become Germany’s Keir Starmer The Chancellor is losing the support of his party

Wolfgang Munchau

Labour doesn’t need a female-only leadership race Harriet Harman thinks banning men is the answer to the party’s woman problem

Saturday, 1 August

The MAGA media machine has passed its sell-by date Leading Right-wing podcasters have seen their audiences shrink over the past year

The beginning of the end? (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Reform UK has no plan after Nigel Farage

Diane Abbott’s return won’t fix Labour divisions Andy Burnham is readmitting outcasts from the Starmer project

Friday, 31 July

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons? The hardest stage of Trump’s peace plan is now beginning

Tens of thousands of migrants have crossed the Spanish border in the last two days. Credit: Getty

How the Ceuta migrant crisis could come to Britain

Can Democrats claim the MAHA movement? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes there is room for compromise

Live at the Apollo deserves to die The BBC is axing the programme amid a series of cuts

Russia’s Poland strike is a warning to Nato Moscow wants to normalise discord inside the alliance

William Nattrass