There are already uncomfortable parallels with 2008. Credit: Getty

November 15, 2025

AI bailouts are an inadequate response to economic crisis Increased costs would exacerbate a heaving deficit

Dustin Guastella

Can Shabana Mahmood win the Labour immigration debate? Her Denmark-style plans can still satisfy both restrictionists and truculent MPs

Friday

14.11

Democrats deserve better than Chuck Schumer The Senate Minority Leader no longer has the confidence of his party

Brussels is having to abandon some of its abiding principles. Credit: Getty

EU vote is a decisive blow to far-Right cordon sanitaire

Labour will regret its policing plans when local tensions escalate Outsourcing responsibilities to regional authorities may backfire

Income tax U-turn could be the undoing of Rachel Reeves The Chancellor has torn up her Budget plans

Ahmed al-Sharaa needs Trump for his war on Isis Syria will join the Global Coalition against Islamic State

Thursday

13.11

The Groyper-in-chief. Credit: Getty

Are 30-40% of conservative Gen Z staffers really Groypers?

Emily Jashinsky

UCL apologises for lecture citing antisemitic blood libel A former researcher uncritically referred to the 1840 Damascus Affair

Keir Starmer can’t afford to lose Morgan McSweeney If the PM sacks his chief of staff, he will share the same fate as Boris Johnson

Country music's new AI star. Credit: Breaking Rust

Breaking Rust’s hit song proves AI has colonised music

Will the BBC axe Verify? Deborah Turness’s misguided brainchild is a symbol of the corporation’s demise

Ethnic-minority Brits twice as likely to tie Englishness to whiteness YouGov polling finds a disparity in national identity between the races

Wednesday

12.11

MAGA is nearing breaking point with Trump Anger over Epstein, H-1Bs and affordability is spilling over

Emily Jashinsky

Bobby Vylan, of Bob Vylan fame. Credit: Getty

Bob Vylan brings the revolution to North London

Britain’s EU defence snub is a sign of national strength Starmer’s refusal to bankroll Europe’s rearmament shows quiet self-confidence

Philip Cunliffe

JMW Turner’s ‘autism’ is no guide to his art A new documentary focuses on the painter’s alleged condition rather than his work

J.J. Charlesworth

Rising unemployment could send Britain back to the Eighties Rachel Reeves should be bolder in pushing for growth

Tuesday

11.11

The Left's Joe Rogan? Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty.

Can Gavin Newsom bring young men back to the Democrats?

Michael Baharaeen

Epping migrant hotel ruling undermines Labour’s asylum plans A local council has lost its case over the housing of asylum seekers

Wagenknecht’s pick-'n'-mix policies failed to convince the Gemran public. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty.

Is Sahra Wagenknecht’s resignation the end of Left-conservatism?

Rule-or-ruin Left and Right are to blame for shutdowns In an age of weak parties, the fringes dominate the agenda

DEI research soars in UK grant funding Academic boards are paid to spread radical ideology

Monday

10.11

IOC trans ban is a reckoning for women’s sport Female athletes may finally get the level playing field they deserve

Lisa Selin Davis

Red Square in the Eighties. Credit: Getty

How the KGB tried to recruit me

Why Starmer can’t copy Denmark on immigration Shabana Mahmood’s reforms are set to meet opposition inside her party

Nigel Farage: the BBC is guilty of election interference Today, the Reform UK leader criticised the corporation’s institutional bias

British courts shouldn’t have to protect criticism of Islam Taking issue with religious doctrine is not the same as persecution

Tim Davie was BBC Director General for five years. Credit: Getty

Will Tim Davie’s resignation be a fresh start for the BBC?

Sunday

09.11

Switzerland’s population cap plan could influence Europe Rising immigration has prompted politicians to act

Lukas Leuzinger

Has Britain given up on its heritage sites? Historic buildings have been abandoned to decay

Nicholas Boys Smith

Poll: majority of British voters want both Starmer and Reeves to resign Even Labour supporters’ faith is plummeting ahead of the Budget