Audiobooks are not a threat to children’s literacy Our encounters with literature extend well beyond the page

Can Britain benefit from Ukraine’s minerals deal?

The UK’s Net Zero economy isn’t booming New CBI figures conveniently ignore the extent of Government subsidies

Wednesday

26.02

Trump’s gold card scheme is a gift to foreign regimes The President is giving a free pass to oligarchs

Jeff Bezos rebrands Washington Post as billionaire’s think tank

Sadiq Khan is preventing a London grooming gangs inquiry Organised child sexual abuse is not just a regional problem

US universities are ignoring the affirmative action ban Standardised tests are still interpreted 'holistically'

UK’s performative Russia sanctions won’t deter Putin Europe is increasingly powerless in the new order

Philip Pilkington

Tuesday

25.02

Are Republican voters turning on DOGE?

New Muslim lobby group will inflame UK religious tensions Baroness Warsi's initiative risks becoming an Islamophobia talking shop

Don’t blame aid cuts for Stonewall’s downward spiral The charity's decline predates Trump

Macron is no longer Europe’s Trump whisperer His peacekeeping pitch will make more of a difference in France than in DC

Pierre-Louis Bodman

What Kemi Badenoch can learn from the German election

Monday

24.02

Joy Reid’s MSNBC exit is no victory for common sense The ultra-progressive presenter's replacements won't appeal to moderate viewers

Madeline Fry Schultz

China and America find common ground on Ukraine

Labour’s food plan won’t heal rift with farmers Encouraging the public sector to buy British will have a negligible impact

Sahra Wagenknecht disappoints in German election Her 'Left-conservatism' and Russia-friendly policies failed to convince voters

Zelensky’s resignation won’t be enough for Trump Washington is pressuring Kyiv to reach a deal

Bethany Elliott

Will record turnout force Germany to chart a new course?

Ralph Schoellhammer

Sunday

23.02

Is Lara Trump’s new Fox show a campaign in disguise? The weekend slot serves as free advertising for the family

How Democrats should take on Trump

Michael Baharaeen

Immigration debate dominates Germany ahead of election A citizen-focused television programme had one central preoccupation

Saturday

22.02

Trump seals fusion of old and new conservatism at CPAC The president has seamlessly absorbed traditional conservative policy goals

Scottish Labour conference derailed by single-sex space debate The issue of gender identity is once again dividing the party

A British DOGE will never succeed

James Sean Dickson

Is Germany heading for a fractured parliament? Voters want change — but splintering is likely

Friday

21.02

Drone strikes on Mexican cartels are looming Elon Musk offered his support to the plan this week

Amazon has been given a licence to kill James Bond Selling the franchise will dilute the spy's unique cultural power

Does Reform have a Ukraine problem?

Patrick O'Flynn

Palantir UK chief: AI could become powerful censorship tool Louis Mosley warned that the technology may soon be the ultimate arbiter

Hamas hostage handovers are designed to anger Israel — and Trump Is the terrorist group trying to bring an end to the ceasefire agreement?

Thursday

20.02

Can Kash Patel restore the FBI’s credibility?

The White House is memeing too hard Good policy is being undermined by cruel messaging

ARC afterparty brings the vibeshift to London Transatlantic young Right-wingers are celebrating newfound momentum

Will Trump’s Zelensky spat undermine the realist cause?

Christopher McCallion

Why NYC Mayor Eric Adams will survive A court case delay could work to the Democrat's advantage

Trump’s peace plan leaves Europe exposed Brussels is not prepared to plug the security gap left by the US

Wolfgang Munchau

Wednesday

19.02

Trump is backing Ukraine into a corner

Bethany Elliott

Federal science research cuts were a long time coming Academia's embrace of political activism made this backlash inevitable

Jukka Savolainen

‘Populism’ isn’t to blame for Britain’s prisons crisis A new report paves the way for more lenient sentences

Is Konstantin Kisin right about Rishi Sunak’s Englishness?

Musk cedes spotlight to Trump in Fox interview Host Sean Hannity compared the two to 'brothers'

Emily Jashinsky

Tuesday

18.02

Alex Karp: Democrats are committing suicide Refusing to engage with real-world concerns is stifling the Left

Javier Milei’s reputation damaged by memecoin crisis

Trump’s Versailles-style deal would cripple Ukraine Leaked plans for after the war are extremely punitive

Why is the dollar weakening? Tariff pressures are having a surprising effect on the greenback

UN official under fire for acknowledging biological reality Over 200 NGOs denounced Reem Alsalem for her new report on female violence

Josephine Bartosch

European leaders still have no Ukraine plan

Monday

17.02

Supreme Court may halt Trump’s Deep State purge A new case could be the President's first major legal roadblock

UK troops in Ukraine is an empty promise Britain is not materially equipped for such an expedition

Trump is taking on the military-industrial complex Cuts to America's military budget would be revolutionary

Philip Pilkington

Russia-Ukraine peace deal could intensify shadow war

Bethany Elliott

‘Remigration’ is the selling point for AfD voters The party is attracting support from the Left as well as the Right

Sunday

16.02

Trump’s USAID freeze won’t give terrorists a free pass Security concerns within the intelligence community are misplaced

Zelensky’s ‘European army’ is an unrealistic dream Nato members are no longer united by shared interests

Johan Wennström

My evening with Helen Joyce and Oxford’s trans protesters

Alexei Navalny’s resistance movement died with him One year on, internal opposition to Putin is muted and disorganised

Bethany Elliott

Saturday

15.02

JD Vance has spooked Germany’s political establishment Will MAGA support make a difference for the AfD?

MAGA Right teams up with socialist Left on credit card fees Are Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders ushering in a new populist alliance?

JD Vance’s Munich speech was full of contradictions

Are Canada’s Liberals making a comeback? American tariffs may have sparked a rally-round-the-flag effect

Friday

14.02

Dominic Cummings: vote Reform UK in the local elections The former No. 10 adviser has called for Kemi Badenoch to be ousted as Tory leader

A falling dollar is good news for America Trump doesn't want to use his currency as a geopolitical wrecking ball

Ralph Schoellhammer

Could there ever be a Tory-Labour coalition?

Labour’s new towns cannot afford to neglect beauty Keir Starmer should build for the people, not the professionals

Nicholas Boys Smith

Should we treat assisted dying more like suicide? Debate around the bill ignores multi-generational trauma

Munich Security Conference finds Europe in a dismal state A generation of incompetent leaders has imperilled the continent

Thursday

13.02

RFK Jr’s appointment is a victory for Trump’s ‘brokenists’

Munich terror attack will fuel support for AfD Centrist parties are struggling to respond to another terror incident

UK steel wouldn’t survive a Trump trade war Keir Starmer is wise to avoid the EU's retaliatory measures

Ben Ramanauskas

Europeans should support Trump’s Ukraine overture The President's plan for peace is, so far, entirely reasonable

Gaza migrant ruling is another capitulation to the ECHR

Wednesday

12.02

Is Tulsi Gabbard the new face of MAGA? Old-guard Republicans are finally giving way to new leadership

Emily Jashinsky

US inflation report points to impending recession Donald Trump now faces pressure to bring down prices

Trump’s move to shutter CFPB is anti-populist The President's critique of the bureau is straight out of the bankers' playbook

Israeli hostage stand-off makes return to war inevitable

France’s AI boom is built on sand Emmanuel Macron is ignoring fiscal constraints to secure his legacy

Pierre-Louis Bodman

Removed safeguard imperils UK assisted dying bill Once-supportive MPs are changing their mind on the legislation

Tuesday

11.02

Blame Congress for looming constitutional crisis Lawmakers are too divided to enact change

Musk’s OpenAI bid won’t stop DeepSeek threat

Philip Pilkington

US plan for a quick Ukraine ceasefire is a non-starter Washington must face up to the reality of Russia's territorial gains

Young women far more likely than men to think Britain is racist — poll New data shows that the political gender gap is widening