Parliamentary supremacy does not tell the full story. Credit: Getty

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Trouble for a Labour supermajority will begin at the top Dominance in Parliament will not allay the party's powerbrokers

Wednesday, 26 June

Democrat calls misinformation hearing an election distraction New York Representative Nydia Velázquez rejected claims of censorship

Tony Blair speaks to Dwarkesh Patel. Credit: Dwarkesh Podcast

Tony Blair: lockdowns in developing world did more harm than good

Nvidia’s volatile share price is an omen for the stock market AI stocks are creating a misleading picture of economic health

Jordan Bardella auditions for PM in crucial TV debate The RN threat has prompted Macron to warn of 'civil war'

Jamaal Bowman speaks at a campaign rally in the Bronx at the weekend. Credit: Getty

Jamaal Bowman’s defeat reveals the weakness of the Squad

Labour shouldn’t bank on a strong pound Keir Starmer's economic plans are at the mercy of world events

Tuesday, 25 June

David Tennant at the LGBT Awards. Credit: Getty

Kemi Badenoch spars with David Tennant

Joe Biden should ditch his ‘threat to democracy’ strategy The President is falling into the same trap as Hillary Clinton

Justin Trudeau’s party suffers shock defeat in Toronto Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives captured a Liberal stronghold last night

Michel Foucault still confuses the Right, 40 years later His version of postmodernism did not breed current identity politics

Joan Smith. Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty

Why I’ve left the Labour Party

Monday, 24 June

Will Donald Trump capture the Bitcoin vote? Silicon Valley is lining up to endorse the ex-president

Emily Jashinsky

Is the Queen of Europe being entirely transparent? Credit: Getty

Ursula von der Leyen’s Pfizer hypocrisy

Britain should stay out of an Israel-Lebanon war Netanyahu's US allies are stumbling into another regional catastrophe

One year on, the Wagner revolt changed nothing After Prigozhin's death, acts of resistance are even rarer

Nigel Farage declares war on Tory press over Ukraine Right-wing outlets have rounded on the Reform leader for his Nato comments

Mary Harrington

J.K. Rowling also expressed approval for the Communist Party's stance on gender issues last year. Credit: Getty

JK Rowling encourages Britons to vote for Communist Party

Sunday, 23 June

AIPAC is driving out the Democrats’ pro-Palestine Left Israel lobby groups are exerting outsized influence

What remains of the Corbynistas? This weekend's rally united the Leftist old guard with young progressives

It’s time to rebuild ancient Athens Why not swallow our pride and enjoy a brazen imitation?

Nicholas Boys Smith

Nigel Farage speaks to Nick Robinson on Friday night. Credit: Getty

Nigel Farage’s Ukraine comments aren’t ‘disgraceful’

Saturday, 22 June

Andrew Sullivan echoes Christopher Hitchens on IVF The writer put distance between himself and the LGBT movement he championed

Emily Jashinsky

The French Right’s cordon sanitaire is breaking down Le Pen and Bardella have won over the country's conservatives

The media is giving Keir Starmer an easy ride Journalists are too fixated on attacking the Tories instead

Friday, 21 June

AI is making us less productive Software such as Microsoft's Copilot is facilitating automated idleness

Andrew Orlowski

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Credit: Getty

Wikipedia has a political bias — report

Why does Sadiq Khan support this trans mastectomy poster? No self-professed feminist should be backing this misogynist movement

Douglas is Cancelled takes on the mob — and wins A mainstream comedy about cancel culture shows significant progress

Hardly a new-look Nato. Credit: Getty

Mark Rutte won’t save a crumbling Nato

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi Sunak has lost the Turquoise Tories Pro-environment Conservatives are switching over to the Greens

Thursday, 20 June

Graduate infiltration of labour unions angers blue-collar base Gaza has widened the chasm between bosses and conservative workers