Banning Russia from SWIFT will hurt the West The sanction will only push Putin into the arms of China

Philip Pilkington

Why the West cares more about Ukraine Our shared cultural identity is a legitimate factor

Meanwhile, the UK grabs new anti-protest powers Today's Police Bill debate looks set to allow the Government to forcibly evacuate protestors

Every company is now a weapon of war The longstanding myth of neutral commerce was killed off this weekend

Mary Harrington

For some Tory MPs, the stakes aren’t high enough There's ongoing talk of a no-fly zone and even launching missiles at Russia

Saturday

26.02

Europe faces a dilemma over the Ukrainian refugee crisis So far only eastern European countries have pledged their support

William Nattrass

Friday

25.02

Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t chosen on merit alone The President announced his Supreme Court pick with no mention of some selection criteria

Park MacDougald

San Francisco parents: How we took back control of our schools Flo Read meets the mothers and fathers who led a historic school board recall

Ukraine does not need to be ‘de-Nazified’ The smear is an oft-cited part of Vladimir Putin’s playbook

The French Right still hasn’t found a winner Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse are all slumping

Konstantin Kisin: Did the alternative media get Ukraine wrong? Freddie Sayers talks to the YouTube host about biases in both directions

Why is Ukrainian State Twitter waging a meme war? The country's official account appears to be targeting a western audience

Watch out for the Covid to Ukraine expert pivot Members of the pandemic commentariat are trying to reinvent themselves

Thursday

24.02

Shock and despair at London’s Ukraine protest It was supposed to be a demonstration, but it looked like a vigil

Putin’s speech reveals a dangerous and distorted worldview This is no longer a man the West can do business with

Don’t blame the Ukraine crisis on NATO enlargement Historically, Russia has provoked European countries into joining

Parents are right to be terrified of the metaverse The platform is already being used by perverts and sexual predators

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

23.02

Another major slip-up at The New York Times The Trojan Horse Affair podcast is littered with errors and distortions

Ashley Rindsberg

Give Emmanuel Macron a break His attempts to win over Putin have been ridiculed — but at least he tried

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

The Ukraine crisis proves Bitcoin is not a safe haven The cryptocurrency has had a torrid time in 2022

Sanctions won’t hurt Russia They didn't work in 2014 — and they won't now

Philip Pilkington

Tuesday

22.02

Joe Biden is making the housing crisis worse His administration is squeezing Americans out of the property market

If they can identify Q, they can identify you… Forensic linguistics are chipping away at internet anonymity

Was Grace Lavery silenced by her own community? She pulled out of an UnHerd event after pressure from fellow trans activists

In defence of the Gatsby house Building a stately home is a constructive way for the rich to spend their money

Monday

21.02

Ignore the doomerists — we need to learn to live with Covid The outcry at the PM's decision has come from familiar quarters

I worry about the Finlandisation of America I see troubling parallels between my native country in the Seventies and America

Jukka Savolainen

Bill Gates wants you to eat artificial meat The green revolution is coming — for everyone except the billionaires

Mary Harrington

Shock poll rocks Spanish politics Vox is now the second most popular party in Spain

Friday

18.02

How the Charter of Rights let Canada down The document has reduced our definition of freedom to box ticking

The New York Times erases JK Rowling The Grey Lady wants readers to 'imagine Harry Potter without its Creator'

Virginia Woolf predicted her own cancellation The novelist is the latest addition to the 'racism list'

Rules for politics in the classroom don’t go far enough Nadhim Zahawi's attempt to reduce partisan teaching is full of holes

Apple is cheering on the new normal Endless health data won't help us move on from Covid

Timandra Harkness

Thursday

17.02

The ECJ ruling is a political attack on Hungary and Poland These countries are being targeted for their social conservatism — not corruption

William Nattrass

Dear EU leaders, Africa has bigger problems than Covid The relentless push to vaccinate the continent won't help Africans

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

The start of a counter-revolution in San Francisco The ousting of the city's woke school board is a sign of things to come

The West is facing an unprecedented rent crisis Property prices and rental values are skyrocketing

Wednesday

16.02

Unions are failing women The NEU is the latest to bow to trans activists

Josephine Bartosch

P.J. O’Rourke: a brilliant satirist undone by the Trump era His writing lost its sting when the MAGA crowd arrived

Wanted in Turkmenistan: a dull dictator The country has endured two attention-seeking narcissists, but that could change

Trudeau’s state of emergency is all about the money Civil liberties were suspended to protect foreign investment

Finally, Olaf Scholz shows some backbone with Russia The German Chancellor's summit with Vladimir Putin was his most assured yet

Tuesday

15.02

Louis Gave: What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines The financial markets have been underwhelmed by the data

Another effect of lockdown: childhood obesity New data shows a major uptick in severely obese children

Kristina Murkett

A misinformation ‘investigation’ reignites the censorship machine A Times story on YouTube 'cashing in' on anti-vaxxers is an invitation to censors

RIP to the Zero Covid ideology Only China now clings to the dream of a Covid-free world

5 million French citizens become ‘unvaccinated’ overnight The unboosted are now excluded from bars, cinemas and other public venues

Glenn Loury: Reject race politics and embrace humanity Freddie Sayers spoke to the economist about race relations in America

Monday

14.02

Joe Biden’s Ukraine strategy is confusing the markets Publicising intel that later proves to be incorrect could undermine credibility

Philip Pilkington

It’s time for Stormont to collapse The current crisis could give Westminster a chance to implement reform

In Spain, the Right-wing edges closer to power Vox made significant gains in yesterday's regional election

Anne Applebaum swaps foreign policy for fan-fiction The Atlantic columnist's advice to Liz Truss bordered on the surreal

Mary Harrington

Friday

11.02

It’s time for Joe Biden to recognise the Taliban Without US aid, the country will implode

The Ottawa ‘Freedom Convoy’ comes to France Protestors unhappy with vaccine passports are descending on Paris

Goodbye Cressida Dick — and good riddance She was the first woman to lead the Met, but her mistakes were catastrophic

Nicolas Sarkozy plays coy in French election campaign The former French president has refused to endorse Valerie Pécresse

The World Economic Forum has lost the plot From cold showers to animal inequality, the WEF is putting out weird content

Thursday

10.02

Ottawa trucker: Why we’re not going anywhere Freddie Sayers investigates the Canadian anti-mandate movement

Fact-checkers wrongly label ‘crack pipe’ story false After a signal from the Biden administration, the censorship machine kicked in

Park MacDougald

Ceramicist de-platformed for being a ‘SWERF’ Claudia Clare was disinvited from the Craft Potters Association due to her views on sex work

Peloton’s stock crash is just the beginning No company better symbolised the market bubble that we're in

Chinese CCTV is coming to to a town near you AI-powered cameras from the East are popping up across the country

Wednesday

09.02

Teen girls are struggling with male attention on TikTok The video platform is complicating the relationship between users and creators

NHS England deletes misleading Covid stats video It removed a video claiming 1% of children with Covid are hospitalised

Is Russell Brand the British Joe Rogan? The British comedian is politically difficult to box — and that's why he has enemies

The hole in Sajid Javid’s NHS masterplan It all comes down to the workforce — why don't health secretaries ever see that?

The German Chancellor won’t say the words ‘Nord Stream 2’ Olaf Scholz refuses to commit to sanctioning Russia

Tuesday

08.02

MSNBC tries to sanitise a civil rights hero The network was wrong to portray Bayard Rustin as a progressive

Why I took part in Ottawa’s Freedom Convoy The media have consistently misrepresented our mission

On Wikipedia, trans activists are always editing The world's largest reference site is subject to a relentlessly partisan slant

A Covid Bishop is the last thing my Church needs As a vicar of 25 years, I despair at the creeping corporatisation of the CofE

Don’t use black Americans to cancel Joe Rogan When 'misinformation' didn't work, media elites pivoted to racism

Monday

07.02

Captain Tom Foundation spends over £160,000 on ‘management’ The charity's records show extraordinarily high administration costs

German propaganda casts women as defenders of Ukraine A film about a Ukrainian mother is designed for a liberal Anglo audience

Mary Harrington

Boris’s challengers are hidden from view Number 10 won't let us hear what Sunak or Truss really think

China’s new plan to fill the God-shaped hole The CCP is building 'civilisation centers' to create a 'collective soul'

Saturday

05.02

What ‘sexy’ childrens’ toys reveal about adults Build-A-Bear's new range is really about the infantilisation of adults

Mary Harrington

Friday

04.02

Want to improve cancer outcomes? Bring back in-person GPs visits Sajid Javid's big 10 year plan should start with the basics

Kristina Murkett

What’s causing Africa’s coup epidemic? The Western intervention in Libya may have played a crucial role

What Munira Mirza’s departure really means The departing Head of Policy was in charge of fighting the culture war

Is Facebook’s share price crash only the beginning? Other huge technology companies are also vulnerable

Philip Pilkington