The Ukraine crisis is dividing the Balkans Serbia is struggling to maintain a balancing act between East and West

New Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines The real-world trial in New York yielded disappointing results

Jay Bhattacharya

America’s worst kept secret The Supreme Court is shielding the CIA over a widely reported issue

Monday

07.03

Sanctions will push Russia onto the dark web A major state actor could now legalise internet piracy and hacking

Philip Pilkington

Africa’s food crisis pre-dates the war in Ukraine Revisionists are already trying to erase the impact of Covid policy on the continent

Gerhard Schröder’s legacy will be forever tainted The ex-Chancellor's position on Russia is indefensible

Europe is still bankrolling Russia The market value of gas exported from Russia to the EU is going up

Friday

04.03

Russian sanctions bring Kazakhstan to the brink On top of existing tensions and police brutality, my country may not survive

Emmanuel Macron’s party is filled with odd-balls and misfits En Marche has many colourful characters

Banning RT is a Soviet — not western — tactic Free speech and access to information gives Europe a competitive advantage

Jacob Mchangama

Is this the end of the G20? The international club has already ceased to function

Thursday

03.03

Why India abstained on UN resolution over Ukraine Ties between the two countries go back to the Cold War

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act won’t help trans people Today's bill is as bad as feared

Is Ukraine breaking the Geneva Convention? Publishing videos of Russian soldiers for propaganda purposes may be a breach

How the Ukraine war took over TikTok Slav-centric content was filling the video platform long before Putin's invasion

Companies race to remove any mention of Russia From cancelled meerkats to a vodka ban, home-made sanctions are everywhere

Nicholas Harris

Wednesday

02.03

Is the Russian war machine broken? Freddie Sayers asks RUSI analyst Justin Bronk why the Russian airforce is still grounded

Whatever happens in Ukraine, China will emerge the victor The crisis has accelerated the shift of power from Washington to Beijing

Marshall Auerback

The mystery of Paris’s missing Voltaire statue The explanations for the absence are becoming increasingly bizarre

In his first State of the Union, Biden punches left The President made clear overtures to the centre ground

Park MacDougald

Banning Russia Today sets a dangerous precedent It's rarely a good sign when Big Tech and Western leaders agree

Tuesday

01.03

Andreas Umland: The real nuclear threat is not from weapons Could clashes around nuclear reactors in Ukraine end in another Chernobyl?

Why Ukraine should not join the EU Accession would only further destabilise the bloc

William Nattrass

In Ireland, it’s progressives who have the real power Working in the shadows, they are using NGOs to protect elite consensus

Conor Fitzgerald

The war in Ukraine: is it really taking place? Jean Baudrillard's analysis of the 'virtual' Gulf War is more relevant than ever

Monday

28.02

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