Keir Starmer’s real role in the Jimmy Savile saga The Labour leader is guilty of an altogether different crime

Jeff Zucker, inventor of centrist panic-porn The CNN president created a captivating imaginary world

Spare a thought for the Covid Never-Enders Even without restrictions, many don't want to go back to normal

Don’t bother asking Mark Drakeford for help A data-sharing body with devolved governments is pure fantasy

Wednesday

02.02

Is this farewell to Blackwell’s? Its sale may presage the end of bookshops as we know them

Michael Gove: I was wrong on Christmas restrictions The minister admitted that he should not have backed more restrictions

What Whoopi Goldberg gets wrong about race The comedian’s conception of racism is that it’s only about visible differences

Amnesty publishes yet another anti-Israel report This time the charity group accused the country of 'apartheid'

Jake Wallis Simons

Tuesday

01.02

The Spotify boycott is a case study in consumer politics A new form of online activism is all about the urge to censor

Does Viktor Orbán hold the key to Russia? The Hungarian PM is charting a different path than other European nations

William Nattrass

Scrapping the NHS mandate is good for public health Losing up to 100,000 staff would have crippled our health service

Why were Denmark’s Covid models better than England’s? From today, the Nordic nation has annulled all its Covid laws

Monday

31.01

Sue Gray’s report is good news for Boris… so far There have been no new revelations about Partygate

Denmark’s state modeller: why we’ve ended all Covid laws Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr Camilla Holten-Møller about her country's bold decision

Grading the French Left: less than adequate The highly touted popular primary failed to unify Left-wingers

Across Europe, Right-wing populists are back Hard-Right parties made significant gains in Portugal and the Netherlands

Joe Rogan is bigger than Spotify The streaming giant is right to stand by its star podcaster

Saturday

29.01

The Edge of Europe: On patrol at the Poland-Belarus border Aris Roussinos joins the Polish army to investigate the migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border

Friday

28.01

Why do women on OnlyFans pretend to be girls? Users are editing their faces to appear younger

The UK economy’s superpower: creating jobs Unlike the rest of Europe and America, labour participation keeps going up

Why I’d choose Boris over Nicola Sturgeon Give me a mendacious Lord of Misrule over a technocratic tyrant

Mary Harrington

Italy’s special relationship with Vladimir Putin Italian business leaders met the Russian president this week

Maurizio Vezzosi

Thursday

27.01

There will never be another Barry Cryer His style of comedy has been erased from British television

Why Scotland and Wales are silent on Ukraine The UK is facing major foreign policy crisis, but the first ministers aren't intervening

BMJ fights back against Facebook fact-checkers The medical journal was censored for 'misinformation' by the tech giant

Why regulation of Bitcoin still won’t happen Elites are now too invested to act against crypto

Wednesday

26.01

Kate Clanchy: my life’s work has been taken away The writer speaks to Freddie Sayers about teaching, writing, and cancel culture

Poll: Trump to beat Biden by 6 points in 2024 The former President now has a clear lead over the Democrat

The UK mops up students from Zero Covid countries The pandemic has increased, not decreased, the number of foreign applications

Kristina Murkett

Japan’s new Covid crackdown is all about politics The ‘quasi state of emergency’ sounds dramatic, but it's anything but

Friedrich Merz takes Merkel’s old party to the Right The CDU's new leader wants to offer Germany a conservative option

Tuesday

25.01

Amnesty’s stance on prostitution is hurting women Decriminalising the purchase of sex will only help the industry grow

Elite universities should stop prizing victimhood Embroidering stories about hardship is easier for affluent candidates

War in Ukraine would provoke a new migrant crisis How will Eastern Europe respond to millions of Ukrainian refugees?

William Nattrass

The era of record company profits is coming to an end 2022 is looking set to be a very bearish year

Philip Pilkington

Monday

24.01

To witness the Covid divide, walk from Brooklyn to Queens Attitudes are no longer about red states or blue states — it's all down to class

Park MacDougald

It’s transfer season on the French hard Right Three politicians defect from Marine Le Pen to Éric Zemmour

What NHS workers told me at the mandate protest To cast them all as 'anti-vaxxers' misses the point

California Governor: my state is looking ‘third world’ Gavin Newsom is finally admitting there is a problem

Sunday

23.01

The countryside case for Veganuary Those of us who shoot and fish have much in common with vegans

Saturday

22.01

Canova’s Theseus get masked up in Vienna Austria's number one museum has fallen victim to hygiene theatre

Friday

21.01

What’s going on in Quebec? The French Canadian province has gone in an increasingly authoritarian direction

Anxiety: the hidden cause behind school absences Lockdown has had a detrimental impact on students' mental wellbeing

Kristina Murkett

Could Ukraine be today’s Schleswig-Holstein? Dominic Cummings has compared today's involvement to the 1864 Prussian invasion

Vaccination is the new dividing line in Republican politics Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are now on opposite ends of the fight

France’s answer to Partygate: honeymooning in Ibiza Macron's education minister changed the rules while on a holiday break

Thursday

20.01

The world’s poorest countries are facing an unprecedented debt crisis The pandemic has caused a collapse in tourist and service industry revenue

In defence of the Vagrancy Act of 1824 Its continued existence sends a message about certain forms of behaviour

Michael Mosbacher

What next after the Hong Kong Hamstercide? Zero Covid countries are reaching for increasingly desperate policies

Picador cancels poet Kate Clanchy’s books The author and her publisher have parted ways

How to solve the cycle of decline? Print more babies! Tech bros seem to believe that artificial wombs are better than the real thing

Mary Harrington

What does Labour’s ‘Make Brexit Work’ actually mean? Keir Starmer may finally be leaning into the 'Lexit' argument

How America turned against the Democrats Five charts illustrate how Joe Biden lost his advantage in one year

Wednesday

19.01

US Jewish-Muslim relations are better than anywhere in the world The hostage crisis in Texas was alarming because such events are so rare

Emmanuel Macron channels his inner Nietzsche The president's EU Parliament speech is one of the most ambitious yet

If Russia invades Ukraine, Germany must pay the price Pipeline politics have undermined Europe's strategic advantage over Russia

Boris Johnson was made and unmade by television The Prime Minister's career started and ended on screen

Germany’s Catholic party is back in parliament The Centre Party wants to be 'a serious conservative-social political force’

Cutting sick pay for the unvaccinated sets a dangerous precedent Covid is causing people to throw their principles out the window

Polly Mackenzie

Tuesday

18.01

Israeli vaccine advisor: “We have made mistakes” Professor Cyrille Cohen talks herd immunity and his pandemic regrets

The Czech Republic charts its own path on Covid The country is rolling back vaccine mandates

William Nattrass

Anti-Semitism is rife in the British-Pakistani community The Texas terrorist is just the latest example

Jake Wallis Simons

The best way to get ahead is now to lie We can't blame students for fabricating stories of hardship

Monday

17.01

California’s economy is weaker than it looks An over-reliance on a small number of companies won't work in the long term

Davos speaker: doctors are part of vaccine ‘conspiracies’ Annelies Wilder-Smith argued that medical schools contribute to vaccine disinformation

Political discrimination is fuelling a crisis of academic freedom A preponderance of Left-wing academics is drowning out other voices

Keir Starmer is taking the wrong lesson from partygate Labour should reflect on their complicity in our absurd Covid policies

Why the poor don’t move to richer cities The economic rewards of big city life have not been shared equally

Which countries have come down hardest on anti-vaxxers? We try to make sense of a mass of restrictions

Nicholas Harris

Saturday

15.01

Ricardo Bofill gave us a vision of an alternate modernity The architect's death is a reminder that there are other ways of living

Friday

14.01

What the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate ruling means It is a big blow for the Biden administration

No10 is already spinning the Sue Gray inquiry The PM’s supporters are already trying to re-frame the civil servant's role

What Jeffrey Epstein meant to Prince Andrew Was he a friend or another source of money?

The richest 0.00001% in America are getting richer Just 18 individuals held more than $50 billion in wealth last year

The progressive way to boost birth rates The UK population is forecast once again to decline — but it needn't happen

Thursday

13.01

Is statue toppling now a Right-wing activity too? The attack on the BBC's Eric Gill statue marks a new juncture in the culture wars

Is Britcoin a trojan horse for a social credit system? We should be wary of Government efforts to centralise crypto technology

Philip Pilkington

Online child sexual abuse images triple during lockdown A new report makes for grim reading

Kristina Murkett

The vasectomy ‘movement’ is a front for eugenics The self-gelding campaign has a dark motivation

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

12.01

Dear Democrats, please don’t resurrect Hillary Clinton She is not the 'change candidate' this party needs

Dr Steve James: I’d sacrifice my job over vaccine mandates The NHS consultant who challenged Sajid Javid explains all to Freddie Sayers

Israel considers a Ministry of Truth New proposals to tackle fake news lead in a dangerous direction