The University of Essex turns on Stonewall The group's misrepresentation of the law is a cautionary tale

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

19.05

Confusing travel advice only spreads suspicion Contradictory messaging is most damaging to the least powerful

Are British politicians finally getting real on China? MPs sound increasingly hawkish

The seductive app for sexless submissives NewNew lets you pay to control other peoples' lives — what could go wrong?

Mary Harrington

Is anti-tech terrorism the wave of the future? The Unabomber's ideas are spreading from the online world to the real one

Tuesday

18.05

Fired Apple employee: a reckoning is underway Freddie Sayers spoke to the tech engineer about his recent dismissal

Only the Government can truly put an end to ‘wokeism’ An asymmetric culture war has been fought for too long

Will North Wales’ new ‘agender’ mayor accept your apology? Apparently, saying sorry isn't always enough

Monday

17.05

America takes UFOs seriously, so why don’t we? There are a few distinctly American factors at play

Apple’s casual sacrifice of Antonio García Martínez Petitioners demanded an investigation — the tech firm chose to fire him instead

How infographic activism took over social media As soon as a political crisis emerges, a flurry of pastel-coloured graphics follows

Friday

14.05

Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis: the EU is broken Two thinkers of Left and Right find common ground in their critique of the bloc

The psychic powers of the contemporary Left People with superior political opinions know your mind better than you do

Prince Harry has swapped one zoo for another He could have chosen the quiet life — but opted for Hollywood instead

Ceasefire declared in the great Jersey-France whelk war But strangely, the media won't report on it

The focus on Covid variants is becoming an obsession There are too many pessimistic warnings about the potential for catastrophe

Thursday

13.05

Is Christianity the anti-green religion? Christians are torn between plundering nature and protecting it

Tiger mum Amy Chua on Asian-American tensions Freddie Sayers spoke to the best-selling Yale Professor

The digital world won’t harm you A new study suggests the dangers of new technologies are overblown

Are we on the cusp of a suburban renaissance? To keep the shires blue, the Government has a delicate balancing act to pull off

Wednesday

12.05

Share buybacks expose the ingratitude of big business Many corporations are sliding back to the bad habits of the pre-2008 world

Don’t be fooled by the Tories’ Big Government rhetoric Ben Houchen shows the Conservatives are still wedded to free markets

There will be no anti-woke rebellion Millennials won't save us — but the neuro-diverse might

Tuesday

11.05

Why are we celebrating a four-year-old transitioning? Children are too young to make that kind of decision

Should Scotland be partitioned? The logic of self-determination could hurt the SNP in the end

Here in Washington D.C., Dr Fauci is a messianic figure Liberals' worship of the Good Doctor has reached new extremes

Mayor Ben Houchen: why Tories are winning the North Freddie Sayers spoke to Teesside's newly re-elected Conservative mayor

Monday

10.05

Wellness is no replacement for religion Yoga and mindfulness won't fill the spiritual void

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thatcherism died a long time ago — but Labour has only just realised They are up against a very different kind of Conservative now

Status games are targeting motherhood How did having children become reactionary?

Mary Harrington

Stop denying that cannabis is harmful Despite the predictable backlash, an Irish awareness campaign was right

Saturday

08.05

The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome After a year of pandemic, have voters fallen in love with their captors?

Friday

07.05

Tory Britain is not the ‘new Hungary’ Contrary to certain Left-wing claims, Boris Johnson is not Viktor Orban

Alexander Faludy

The Tories: the Doctor Who of political parties They are capable of undergoing multiple regenerations while still in office

Now women’s literature is cancelled Changes to the exam syllabus in the name of 'inclusivity' are damaging to women

Kristina Murkett

Cummings is right about pointless pundits Even when they're proven wrong, they act with almost zero accountability

Did Covid-19 come from a lab? A former NYT reporter makes a compelling case...

Thursday

06.05

Another not-so-super Thursday in Cardiff Bay There's a national election today in Wales — but nobody seems to care

Theo Davies-Lewis

Don’t believe the hype: there is no ‘cod war’ in Jersey The British press is, once again, getting carried away

Waiving the vaccine IP is a huge blunder This decision won’t do much good and could actually be harmful

Why Trump should not be banned from social media A debate from earlier this year seems relevant once again

Can Labour win the expectations game? As always, success in today's elections will be measured against expectations

Wednesday

05.05

By the data: UK ethnic minorities are progressing well There is an optimistic picture which has not come into sharp enough focus

Long live the Tartarian Empire! My new favourite conspiracy theory has much to say about modern architecture

Hillary Clinton: we must take back the means of production The former Secretary of State has jettisoned the neoliberal ideas of her past

Edinburgh University rules won’t help trans people Not everyone wants to trumpet their gender dysphoria

Remembering the Unitarian roots of The Guardian This radical religious sect had an outsized impact on British political culture

Tuesday

04.05

The third law of pornodynamics Every action has an equal and opposite reaction — porn included

Mary Harrington

A message to men: sex is not a human right Women, on the other hand, have a right to be protected from harm

Eastern Europe’s Covid lesson: it’s GDP, not lockdowns The region's death rates are among the highest despite tough restrictions

Monday

03.05

If I were Mayor of London, here are 10 cities I’d copy From traffic to tourism, our capital has a lot to learn

Sunday

02.05

Philosopher Matthew B. Crawford: Science has become corrupted ‘Following the science’ is a phrase that we have heard a lot of this year, but what does it actually mean?

Friday

30.04

Call that a makeover? Carrie is no Brigitte Macron When it comes to home makeovers, France's First Lady sets a high bar

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Sorry Sir Keir, attacking ‘Tory sleaze’ is a dead end Voters care more about the issues affecting their everyday lives

Don’t place science on a pedestal It is a human activity that is subject to human frailties

How to be a Young Earth creationist in 2021 The frontrunner for the DUP leadership can learn from past examples

Thursday

29.04

How Democrats can increase support among moderates New research shows that even their own voters don't like it

Beware the post-Covid surveillance state Like the viruses they’re meant to fight, apps are mutating when no one’s looking

How partisanship shapes attitudes to immigration The embrace or rejection of migrants is, unsurprisingly, driven by politics

Wednesday

28.04

Covid & QAnon at Camelot | Edgelands Ep.1 In the first episode of our new TV series, we talk Covid and QAnon at Camelot Castle

The forgotten people in Britain’s race debate A panel with Tony Sewell discussed his report's greatest omission

There is nothing smart about our expert class Saying that we have a cognitive elite gives them too much credit

Canadian throuples and the future of parenting A legal decision about polyamory is a bad omen for family life

Mary Harrington

Tony Blair is still deluded about devolution The PM won't face the realities of the separatism he helped to create

Does the New Right understand America? The intellectuals who backed Trump have been fooling themselves for years

Tuesday

27.04

France’s generals have disgraced themselves Threatening a military coup has dangerous ramifications

Why no one watched the Oscars Suffused with dull politics, poor ratings should comes as no surprise

Caitlyn could win California Jenner has the time, money, and savvy to beat Gavin Newsom in November

Should universities no platform flat-earthers? A paper in the new Journal of Controversial Ideas offers an interesting answer

Monday

26.04

Mario Draghi: don’t believe the media hype The Italian PM's EU 'revolution' is a fantasy

John McWhorter: white people should stand up to anti-racist ideologues Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer about race relations in America

Spare us the selective outrage on the lockdown protests Medical staff can't pick and choose — it undermines their authority

Why Sweden and Norway are more different than you think Comparing countries that may seem alike can obscure more than it reveals

Sunday

25.04

Invitation: Does the EU deserve to survive?

Saturday

24.04

Joe Biden takes a gamble on George Floyd Riding the ‘anti-racist’ wave may alienate large swathes of ordinary Americans

Friday

23.04

Donald Trump: the Weltgeist on Twitter Unwittingly or otherwise, the former president ushered in a new era

Highest level of borrowing since the War? Don’t worry about it! We should still be confident about our position coming out of the crisis

St George was actually Turkish — take that, racists! Aren't I clever and high status for pointing this out?

OnlyFans is an experiment in mass grooming The service harnesses the language of sexual liberation to exploit its users

Kristina Murkett

Will social psychology ever clean up its act? Too many famous findings in the field have turned out to be rubbish

Thursday

22.04

What Johan Giesecke missed out My fellow Swedish epidemiologist forgot to mention some important points

Martin Kulldorff

Are Christians more eurosceptic? We are guided more by inherited totemic beliefs than class