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

Vaccinating everybody may not help Africa Rich countries bulldoze poorer ones into submitting to their public health goals

Wednesday

21.04

Bret Weinstein: Democrats are riding the BLM wave But they don't have the power to control it

It’s time to unlock Parliament and pin-down government Lockdown curtailed parliamentary scrutiny — we need to bring it back

Will Matthew McConaughey become Texas’s next Governor? The actor's blank slate politics has drawn many admirers

Tuesday

20.04

In Germany, the Greens are headed for Government The election of Annalena Baerbock is a sign of the party’s new confidence

Church leaders: vaccine passports would be un-Christian Two of the 1200 signatories of a letter to the PM spoke to Freddie Sayers

Jesse Singal on fad psychology Freddie Sayers spoke to the science journalist about his new book

Join Bret Weinstein at tonight’s members event We'll be discussing BLM, the Chauvin trial and tensions in America

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler? It is not clear what this new title even means

Monday

19.04

Where does the Magnitsky movement end? Sanctioning individuals sounds like a good idea, but it's proving complicated

The European Super League shames the people’s game The plan violates the spirit and ethos of the sport

Why the new liberal elite is coming for the WASPs The debate over ‘Anglo-Saxon’ is just another cover for power dynamics

Mary Harrington

When will the ‘experts’ apologise for their Brexit predictions? The years of dire forecasts were not borne out by reality

The UK can’t be a secession free-for-all The idea that the UK is a 'voluntary union of nations' is a dangerous myth

Friday

16.04

The Left runs Joe Biden — not the other way around The President is bending over backwards to satisfy the Democrats’ 'woke' wing

Why does France’s youth support Marine Le Pen? The Right-wing leader is on course to gain young voters to next year's election

Withdrawal from Afghanistan is the wake up call Britain needs Perhaps now we will stop slavishly following the US into war

The SNP monopoly is finally breaking up Whatever happens in the election next month, new populist parties are emerging

Alastair Donald

The uncomfortable truth about sex at university Wherever men and women live together, there will be instances of sexual assault

Thursday

15.04

Careful Andy Burnham, sniping at Westminster won’t work Scoring cheap political points will only undermine the devolution project

Why the media love Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal The President's policy is identical to Donald Trump's — but that's not how CNN sees it

Israel’s identity crisis A declining Jewish population poses new and difficult questions for the country

Delaying the ‘indy’ vote will leave Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable The SNP leader's concession will be music to Alex Salmond’s ears

Did Sweden get Covid wrong? Johan Giesecke, the outspoken epidemiologist, assesses a year of pandemic

Wednesday

14.04

Bridget Phetasy: will YouTube disappear me? The comedian is nervous about her future on the platform

‘Levelling up’ Hartlepool will be harder than Boris thinks Coronavirus has exposed huge health inequalities across the country

Aveek Bhattacharya

Superforecaster: Academic intolerance will be a ‘blip’ Philip Tetlock is sanguine about the future of higher education

Tuesday

13.04

Boris Johnson needs a lesson in communication Politicians should be candid about trade-offs and not speak in absolutes

The decline of Standard English is not progress Hull University betrays its students by not docking marks for spelling mistakes

Abolishing the police won’t help women A new wave of anti-law-enforcement feminism is detached from reality

Monday

12.04

Cancel culture is real — and it’s getting worse Both conservatives and liberals should oppose the new censoriousness

What’s really behind America’s BDSM craze? The forbidden yearning for hierarchy is coming out in the bedroom

Mary Harrington