Wikipedia takes cue from White House and re-defines ‘recession’ Any mention of two negative consecutive quarters has now been scrubbed

Tory hustings have one fatal flaw There is still a lot that we don't know about the two candidates

The Coinbase investigation spells trouble for crypto Authorities are moving in on the industry

Thursday

28.07

Good riddance to the Tavistock Clinic The gender identity service failed hundreds of vulnerable children

Can Britain still celebrate itself? Ten years on from the London Olympics, it would appear not

Don’t blame Zelenskyy for acting like a celebrity again He is trying to reawaken awareness for the Ukrainian cause

Mary Harrington

Trudeau is playing politics with his climate plan The Canadian PM knows it won't pass, but it is a useful distraction

Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a mistake? An OnlyFans star speaks to an anti-porn feminist

Wednesday

27.07

Donald Trump refuses to go hawkish on Ukraine The former president paid no lip service to his neoconservative hosts

Daniel McCarthy

New medical guidelines for trans patients are too political The latest RCOG advice bears all the hallmarks of transgender activism

WHO’s Susan Michie: my politics are my business Freddie Sayers spoke to the new WHO Nudge Unit chair to discuss the politics of public health

The energy crisis will divide Europe Familiar Eurozone fault lines are starting to re-surface

Ralph Schoellhammer

Tuesday

26.07

Want to fix Britain’s housing crisis? Look to China We need radical state intervention to cut through our NIMBYist bureaucracy

James McSweeney

Liberals are getting complacent over Giorgia Meloni If one outsider can disrupt Italian politics, then it can happen again

The abortion debate has nothing to do with white supremacy A liberal publication makes a ludicrous claim

Park MacDougald

Sunak and Truss vie for the world’s worst job In these circumstances, nobody should covet No.10

Monday

25.07

Stonewall thinks two-year-olds can be trans Once again the charity embraces an extreme ideology

Viktor Orban sees a ‘decade of dangers’ ahead In a fracturing world, the Hungarian PM calls for a new Europe

Libya will soon be the EU’s biggest problem A food crisis is creating a new refugee crisis

Nicholas Krohley

Ukraine Government issues blacklist of ‘Russian propagandists’ The list includes a number of prominent Western intellectuals

Why a Euro is now worth less than a dollar Purely financial reasons don't explain the ECB's money troubles

Philip Pilkington

Friday

22.07

Truss and Sunak are not true Thatcherites Thatcher believed in innovation, not zombie ideology

Samuel Rubinstein

How the SNP evades Westminster scrutiny The party governs behind a vast wall of bureaucracy

Political apathy reigns supreme among Americans Polls paint a dismal picture of the state of US politics

Park MacDougald

Lord Frost: “Liz Truss is the change candidate” The former Brexit negotiator wants a new direction

Thursday

21.07

Giorgia Meloni is a nerd, not a radical Talk of a fascist takeover by the potential next Italian PM is misplaced

Francesco Borgonovo

Elon Musk is right about ESG The label has become indistinguishable from a scam

Why is the BBC smearing Prince Charles? Its reporting of the latest synthetic scandal is plainly motivated to cast doubt

Liz Truss to win? I’m not so sure There are another six weeks of blue-on-blue action to come

Wednesday

20.07

Why the public reject trans ideology New polling shows that campaigners are undermining themselves

What the Right gets wrong about Dutch farmers They are defending a globalised and hyper-intensive form of agriculture

The danger of Spain’s Democratic Memory Law It risks opening up old wounds between rival camps

Jorge González-Gallarza

Spurned by China, Putin turns to Iran The Russian leader is searching for new allies on the world stage

Why Conservatives are blind to race The Tory leadership race has settled one argument beyond doubt

Tuesday

19.07

Did tactical votes defeat Kemi? A significant number of Tom Tugendhat's voters ended up backing Truss

Tory leadership latest: Liz Truss becomes the favourite Polling triggered an anti-Penny campaign in the media

Prince Harry becomes Mandela in UN speech The exiled royal even tried out a South African accent

New Zealand falls out of love with Jacinda Ardern The once popular Kiwi leader is crashing in the polls

Going ‘gender neutral’ is not inclusive A bombshell report lays out why single-sex services matter

Monday

18.07

The British case for free train travel The UK has much to learn from its Spanish counterparts

Tory leadership debates were never a good idea They do not suit Britain’s parliamentary political culture

Why did the ACLU push for gender self-ID in prisons? A change in prison policy towards trans inmates had a predictable result

Mary Harrington

The real weaknesses of the Tory candidates Three leadership debates have been revealing in all the wrong ways

EU sues Hungary over anti-LGBT law Ursula von Der Leyen labelled the legislation a 'disgrace'

William Nattrass

Friday

15.07

Will we ever move on from George Osborne and Gordon Brown? Tory leadership candidates are still feeding off ideas from 2010

Facebook, Google censor Alex Jones documentary Flo Read spoke to director Alex Lee Moyer about the suppression of her film

Sorry, Britain’s culture wars aren’t going away An FT columnist makes a strange — and flawed — argument

Mario Draghi is running away from the mess he created The technocrat prime minister's resignation is hard to stomach

Note to MPs: YouGov is not wrong about Penny Mordaunt The polling company has a near-perfect record for leadership elections

More Chinese applicants than Europeans to UK universities New UCAS figures show a threefold increase in Chinese applicants from 2013

Thursday

14.07

Democrats and Republicans need new champions Joe Biden and Donald Trump are undermining their parties' electoral prospects

Emmanuel Macron: no longer Jupiter, but Vulcan The President now sees himself as a different kind of Roman God

Where is the outrage over Telford? Once again, fear of racism is leading to a muted response

Kristina Murkett

Will a TV debate sink Penny Mordaunt? Her record as one of the wokest Tories leaves her open to challenge

Wednesday

13.07

Brace for winter lockdowns Covid may not be the only justification for more restrictions

Izabella Kaminska

New populist party storms into Danish politics The Denmark Democrats have emerged from nowhere to hit 11% of the vote

The unspoken cause of the Sri Lanka crisis: lockdowns Two years of lockdowns are being felt around the world

Will Russia freeze Europe? Putin may be planning to turn the gas off for good

Tuesday

12.07

The truth about Kemi Badenoch The candidate wants politicians to come clean with the public

Why does Penny Mordaunt hate Dad’s Army? This is no laughing matter for the leadership contender

Michael Gove: Kemi Badenoch will be ready on day one The senior Tory answers the charge that his favourite is too inexperienced

Shinzo Abe and the dark side of Japanese politics The slain leader's ties to the 'Moonies' leaves more questions than answers

Western sanctions are already crumbling Canada has announced that it will 'exempt' Russia over a gas turbine

Philip Pilkington

Monday

11.07

Thatcher burns bright at ‘Conservative Way Forward’ event Leadership contenders want to go back to 1987

How the West brought economic disaster on itself Financial analyst Louis Gave unpacks the West's self-made crisis

Elon Musk has embarrassed Twitter Deal or no deal, the tech giant is still bending the knee to the Tesla CEO

Starmer stays silent on womens’ rights This morning's speech was yet another wasted opportunity for Labour

Meet the new ethics teacher: Canesten thrush cream 'Lessons in female anatomy' in state schools are sponsored by the brand

Mary Harrington

A wacky start to the Tory leadership race Eleven candidates have now thrown their hat in the ring

Friday

08.07

Ukraine unveils McKinsey programme for nation-builders The $750bn plan looks like an audit written for 19th century nationalists

Luka Ivan Jukic

Boris Derangement Syndrome lives on Figures like Rory Stewart and John Major are getting carried away

Roundtable: What does Boris Johnson’s resignation mean? Claire Fox, Will Lloyd, Aris Roussinos and Freddie Sayers on what happens next

Boris Johnson’s political future may be in Ukraine In that country the outgoing PM is more loved than ever

Sergej Sumlenny

Why are young men drawn to extremist aesthetics? Robert Crimo III is part of a troubling trend among mass shooters

Thursday

07.07

Stop inflating the danger of the far-Right Data shows that the threat of Islamic terrorism is much greater

The German economy is on the brink Putin can't be blamed for the country's economic malaise

Ralph Schoellhammer

Carnival scenes on the last night of Boris Westminster revelled in Johnson's downfall

We should all be grateful to Maya Forstater Her victory is an important milestone for women's rights

Twitter turns the Highland park shooting into a culture war The shooter was neither a white supremacist or Antifa activist

Wednesday

06.07

Why hasn’t Boris gone yet? A previous generation of Tories was much more ruthless with Thatcher

Why Nadhim Zahawi said yes The new Chancellor is not the first figure in history to accept a likely temporary job

How Boris can survive It's not over yet for the greased piglet