Food hack or fetish? TikTok’s new way to shock When all the taboos are broken, creators are inventing new kinks

What if Karl Marx had never lived? One author argues that the world and our understanding of it would have benefited

Academics try to cancel Peter Singer (again) His critics called his views are “dehumanising and dangerous”

Finally, a good day for General Milley The top military man faced a grilling — and survived

Pain is not a justification for assisted dying The case of Alta Fixsler strikes at the heart of debates around life and death

Tuesday

28.09

Another lockdown would hurt the NHS More restrictions will exacerbate our health service's woes

Penalising private schools will help no one Labour's latest policy announcement will hurt the very children it aims to help

Kristina Murkett

The Left’s case against vaccine passports A group of senior Labour figures offers an animated defence of civil liberties

Only nuclear can save us now It is vital for security and environmental reasons

Monday

27.09

There’s nothing inclusive about erasing women ‘Bodies with vaginas’ is a deeply creepy and dehumanising substitute

Mary Harrington

Dream all you like, but there is no centre-Left revival The SPD's victory in Germany was, in truth, a bit of a fluke

Thank Britain for the golden age of television Shows like 'The Sopranos' revolutionised US TV — but the UK invented it

Angela Merkel hasn’t left the building Extended coalition talks could leave Mutti in place as a lame-duck chancellor

Havana Syndrome is (obviously) a hoax We're living in the dumbest spy novel ever

Sunday

26.09

Louise Leach: my journey from secular to Orthodox The former singer tells her story to Freddie Sayers — and it's the opposite to the one you'll see on Netflix

Friday

24.09

Hunter Biden’s $500,000 artwork is not the real scandal The art market is a racket — his exhibitions are drawing attention to that

Is Gordon Brown the new Brendan O’Neill? The former PM has developed a penchant for sounding off on trending topics

Daniel Foote: yet another US diplomat gone native The resignation of the special envoy to Haiti over expulsion of migrants is typical

Labour’s support for single-sex spaces is too little, too late It is no longer the party for women that it used to be

Thursday

23.09

Keir Starmer strikes a 12,000 word long pose His essay reads like a highlights reel of focus-grouped Blairite platitudes

Anders Tegnell: Sweden won the argument on Covid The state epidemiologist told Freddie Sayers he was right on the key questions

On climate change, Boris Johnson is no Margaret Thatcher The Prime Minister's speech to the UN was an exercise in bluster

If you have a cough, what are the odds it’s Covid? Coronavirus symptoms overlap heavily with those of colds and flu

Reasons to be optimistic about Afghan integration We have learnt a lot from our European neighbours' mistakes

Wednesday

22.09

Sorry, the energy crisis has nothing to do with Brexit or hippies Ideologues are projecting their own biases

Ken Burns: America is in a pre-civil war condition Few know American history as well as the documentary maker

TikTok’s voyeuristic probe into Gabby Petito’s disappearance Social media sleuths may be hindering the case more than helping

Kristina Murkett

In Germany, our energy crisis is far worse than yours Since the removal of nuclear energy, we don't have many options left

Report: politics is not tearing American families apart A new report suggests that fears of an incoming civil war may be overblown

Tuesday

21.09

Paul Kingsnorth is right: we’re in a spiritual crisis The West's consumerism has run amok

Elizabeth Oldfield

How grannies became the new frontline activists Octogenarians are getting themselves arrested — and it makes sense

Why wokeism won’t rule the world Tyler Cowen thinks it will be America's next great export — I disagree

The Ebola lockdown that everyone forgot It was trialled and failed in 2015

How the Lib Dems silenced debate on conversion therapy Dissenting arguments went missing at this weekend's conference

Monday

20.09

There will never be another Only Fools and Horses It was the last TV show collectively watched by the nation

Elites have lost faith in Enlightenment rationality Two new reports confirm that we are heading back to a medieval mentality

Mary Harrington

Evergrande could trigger a global economic crisis The real-estate bubble in China is reminiscent of 2008 — only worse

Will Fauci bypass the FDA ruling on booster jabs? In both the US and UK, leaders are sidelining their expert committees

How the Lib Dems can break the blue wall Focusing on ex-Tories, not a 'progressive alliance', is the right strategy

Friday

17.09

AUKUS is a risky bet on American hegemony How confident should Australia and the UK be that US dominance will last?

Bari Weiss: there are signs of sanity returning The writer tells Freddie Sayers why she is optimistic about the future

Tim Pool: 10 years on, Occupy activists have flipped They now champion causes that used to be associated with the Right

Sir Clive Sinclair: a visionary ahead of his time He didn't get everything right, but foresaw trends decades ahead

Dominic Sandbrook

The Theranos stories they don’t tell you about Outrageous fraud is common in the world of venture capital

The Merkel era was not Germany’s golden age A new poll finds that a plurality of Germans miss the old days

Thursday

16.09

The AUKUS pact is bad news for France Australia's new security partnership with the US and UK is a snub to Paris

Jonathon Kitson

Scrapping SATs will not reduce racial inequality The alternatives are even more biased

Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn A new app digitally superimposes women into videos — this is only the start

Wednesday

15.09

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government And, incidentally, I called it a year ago

Gavin Newsom wins, but California loses The Governor's victory papers over deep issues in the state

Record inflation? Blame Eat Out to Help Out The biggest contribution to the rise in CPI came from the hospitality sector

Norm Macdonald: the only comedian to survive Trump He managed to outlive the great death of comedy of the post-2016 era

Buying Bitcoin may backfire on the Taliban Its price is unpredictable from one day to the next

Tuesday

14.09

Tyler Cowen changes his mind on crypto The influential thinker says he is no longer a sceptic

The case against new Covid restrictions Cases are shrinking without them — exponential growth now seems impossible

Viktor Orban vs the Pope: rival strains of Christian thought Supporters of both worldviews can point to strong theological backing

Joe Biden declares ‘War on Covid’ Like Bush's War on Terror, this conflict is open-ended and a potential disaster

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday

13.09

Asset strippers are coming for your supermarket Private equity buyers are burdening companies with huge debts

KPMG enters the diversity minefield The firm wants more working class staff, but can't define who they are

Kristina Murkett

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage Using the tennis star for political point scoring obscures her background

Did Ayn Rand defeat vaccine passports? Sajid Javid is known to be a fan of the individualist philosopher

Mary Harrington

At last — a system to make flying guilt free Thanks to new technology climate apocalypse doesn't have to be our future

Saturday

11.09

9/11 responders gave me faith in the masculine ideal As a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan, I saw it for myself

Friday

10.09

Why Britain is uniquely vulnerable to a new wave of terrorism Deep links with Pakistan will open the door to terrorists

Priti Patel is playing a dangerous game with France Britain risks losing its favourable arrangements with France on migrants

Modest fashion is making a comeback Consumers are growing bored of BDSM chokers and embracing the 'granny style'

Mary Harrington

The myth of Blue Labour Boris Economically and socially, the Prime Minister remains an instinctive libertarian

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters The party is economically liberal, but the people who vote for them are not

Thursday

09.09

Curtis Yarvin schools Tucker in ‘neoreaction’ The Right-wing blogger joined the Fox News host to discuss his theories of power

Denmark is paying the UK to take their Afghan refugees An undisclosed sum was paid to Britain to accept 23 interpreters

Will the Amish take over America? Historically persecuted religious sects are winning the demographic war

The cynicism behind El Salvador’s Bitcoin decision The people don't want it, but that won't stop the currency's cheerleaders

Wednesday

08.09

Bill Gates finally realises that lockdown hurts children A major advocate for social distancing is having second thoughts

No Judith Butler, gender-critical feminists aren’t ‘fascists’ The academic can't frame everything as a Right-wing transphobic attack

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher Sanae Takaichi could become Japan's first female PM

What has Bernie Sanders actually accomplished? The Senator turns 80 today — his most enduring legacy may be his failures

Tuesday

07.09

Is Justin Trudeau going the way of Theresa May? The Canadian PM's cynical election call looks like it is backfiring

Marshall Auerback

Michael K. Williams was an antidote to today’s identity politics His portrayal of Omar Little in The Wire defied stereotypes

Kristina Murkett

Social care is a constitutional row waiting to happen A UK-wide tax hike to pay for social care in England will anger devocrats

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong! Silicon Valley is investing in life-extending technology — should we worry?

Monday

06.09

Don’t listen to the progressives, Gavin Newsom If the governor wants to survive his recall, he should remember who his voters are

Why I’m not renewing my Irish passport Hilary Mantel may want to become European again, but I don't