Was the ceasefire ever about peace? Credit: Getty
October 20, 2025

Israel-Hamas clashes will not break the ceasefire Both sides will tolerate low levels of violence

David Swift

20.10
'The problem is that Democrats haven’t countered fake populism with real populism.' Credit: Getty

No Kings protests are overlooking workers

Ben Burgis

20.10

Met investigation could be a reckoning for Prince Andrew Officers won’t accept being thrown under a bus for such a discredited figure

Dominic Adler

Sunday
19.10

19.10

US Tomahawk refusal protects Ukraine from false hope This week’s diplomacy dealt a firm blow to magical thinking

Jennifer Kavanagh

19.10

Trump’s India strategy is a gift to China New Delhi denied the US President’s claims that it had stopped buying Russian oil

Kapil Komireddi

19.10

Who will survive the AI crash? Only a handful of companies will last

Gavin Haynes

19.10
One scandal too many. Credit: Getty

Prince Andrew’s title surrender reveals a ruthless Firm

Niall Gooch

Saturday
18.10

18.10

After the Hunt is not an ‘anti-woke’ film Luca Guadagnino’s new film portrays both Left and Right as hollow virtue-signalers

Ryan Zickgraf

18.10
The PM and the Chancellor have tough decisions to make ahead of the Budget. Credit: Getty

Tinkering with Motability won’t satisfy the bond markets

Tom Jones

18.10

Chinese spying scandal is the end of old-school espionage In the age of AI, in-person snooping will become a thing of the past

Bethany Elliott

Friday
17.10

17.10

ICE raids are pushing both parties to the extreme Democrats and Republicans are leaning too hard into performative politics

Emily Jashinsky

17.10
A better future is possible for Britain. Credit: Anglo_Futurist/X

Why Anglofuturism has gone mainstream

Tom Ough

17.10

Palestine protesters disrupt LSE sexual violence event Rape denial is a travesty of the universal ideals of feminism

Joan Smith

17.10

Maccabi Tel Aviv ban is a failure of multiculturalism MPs should not be cheering the exclusion of Israeli football fans

Jide Ehizele

17.10
'To stop the AfD, Friedrich Merz needs to take urgent action on immigration.' Credit: Getty

Major new poll puts anti-AfD firewall in peril

Peter Franklin

Thursday
16.10

16.10

Trump’s Venezuela plot will cause another border crisis He risks making the same mistakes as Joe Biden

Branko Marcetic

16.10

Britain needs new taxes — but not on the wealthy Rachel Reeves can take inspiration from the last Tory government

Andrew O'Brien

16.10
Hamas fighters alongside local children in the Gaza Strip this week. Credit: Getty

In Gaza, we are now at the mercy of gang warfare

Hasan Jber

16.10

Is female vanity behind the birth-rate crisis? Today’s image-conscious culture is shaping decisions around family and fertility

Victoria Smith

16.10

Oxford Union President-elect: cancel culture worse after Charlie Kirk’s death George Abaraonye has claimed responses to his prior comments were ‘insane’

Rob Lownie

Wednesday
15.10

15.10

Young Republican racist chat leak marks end of edgelord era It is no longer transgressive

Oliver Bateman

15.10
'Machine hyperreality will override the sense of mystery.' Credit: Abdoul Latif

ChatGPT will kill our erotic imagination

Sohrab Ahmari

15.10

Trump: Hamas executions don’t bother me The US President played down worries of intra-Palestinian violence

Max Mitchell

15.10

Are Europe and China set for a chip war? Beijing could impose stricter sanctions as the EU tries to please Washington

Jack Smith

15.10
'Davies’s intervention on the so-called appropriation of the Union Flag is a form of “sanctioned patriotism” in more progressive circles.' Credit: Getty

What Alan Davies and Gary Neville get wrong about Britain

Rakib Ehsan

Tuesday
14.10

15.10

Trump’s Argentina bailout is a high-stakes bet on Javier Milei The Argentinian leader serves as a bulwark against Left-wing populism

Emily Jashinsky

14.10

Deradicalizing Gazans will be harder than any peace deal Hamas’s influence is rooted in Palestinian society

Limor Simhony Philpott

14.10
The BTQ peak is over. Credit: Getty

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

Eric Kaufmann

14.10

John Swinney underestimates Scotland’s resistance to immigration Voters may be resistant to SNP pledges for foreign workers

Iain Macwhirter

Monday
13.10

13.10

Hostage return has undermined Netanyahu Trump’s peacemaking nous provides an uncomfortable contrast with the Israeli PM

Tobias Gisle

13.10
Attendees outside the FiLia conference yesterday morning. Credit: Freya Vanadiss/X

Antisemitism row splits feminist group

Nicole Lampert

13.10

Is marijuana legalization driving a rise in psychosis? New research shows that the drug is harming those most at risk

Kevin Sabet