Weekend Opinion

Eurovision’s bum-note boycott Politics has silenced the Joy of Song

Julie Burchill

4 mins

6 Dec 2025 -

Thursday, December 4th Thursday
Dec 4^th

Explainer 20:00

Explainer

Trump faces looming MAGA revolt over data centres

Charles McElwee

Analysis 18:00

Analysis

Tesla slump sets up an EV battle with China

Gavin Haynes

News 16:30

News

Nigel Farage: my relationship with Tucker Carlson has ‘cooled’

Archie Earle

Debate 13:00

Debate

EU corruption scandal is another vindication of Brexit

Brussles has created a revolving door of plum public jobs without democratic accountability.

Peter Franklin

Analysis 10:00

Analysis

Sam Altman is pursuing a dangerous AI arms race

Franklin Okeke

Explainer 07:00

Explainer

Reform-Tory pact would be disastrous for the Right

Henry Hill

Wednesday, December 3rd Wednesday
Dec 3^rd

Analysis 19:00

Analysis

Diddy Netflix documentary is a Foucauldian spectacle

Ralph Leonard

Reaction 17:50

Reaction

Moscow talks expose the fantasy of a fair peace deal

Jennifer Kavanagh

Debate 16:00

Debate

Racial equity is hurting college math scores

A generation of American educators weaned on the social-justice model of education won’t reform itself.

John Murawski

News 14:30

News

Keir Starmer: there will be no blasphemy law

Max Mitchell

Reaction 10:40

Reaction

Republicans’ Tennessee victory can’t hide flawed messaging

Fred Bauer

Reaction 07:00

Reaction

Sarah Everard report will change nothing

Josephine Bartosch

obituary

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His 'outsider' status was a gift

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Underworld

The truth about hitmen Britain’s gangland killers are incompetent

Max Daly

9 mins

28 Nov 2025 -

Podcast

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

Drugs

My adopted baby was born an addict I understand why families can’t cope

Rosie Lewis

5 mins

1 Dec 2025 -

Southern Spear

Trump’s lawless narco-war The military-industrial complex feeds off conflict

Brandan Buck

5 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Education

We’ll miss the Eton of the Valleys Working-class boys thrived without girls

Joel Day

8 mins

27 Nov 2025 -

Terry Eagleton on the transgressions of Tom Stoppard

Labour women’s conference is not ‘banning trans people’

Kathleen Stock, Ed West & James Marriott

The slop-ification of literature

Labour is sleepwalking into a farcical leadership contest

Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine

EU market reforms won’t bring back growth

Paganism is the obvious religion for post-faith Britain

Thames Water is a test for the British economy

How Trump conquered Europe His security strategy betrays imperial intent

Attachment parenting is a guilt-trip Day care has been demonised

Silicon Valley strongmen want to lead the West The future belongs to technologists

Attachment parenting is a guilt-trip Day care has been demonised

Silicon Valley strongmen want to lead the West The future belongs to technologists

Will civil war return to Syria? Its future is in the balance

The therapy-scholar is killing academia Emoting is valued above intellectual heft

Attachment parenting is a guilt-trip Day care has been demonised

Silicon Valley strongmen want to lead the West The future belongs to technologists

Will civil war return to Syria? Its future is in the balance

Maduro has called Trump’s bluff The US must wage war or back down

From the US edition

Can Trump win the affordability debate?

Can Josh Shapiro rebuild the Democrats’ coalition?

Did Pete Hegseth really commit a war crime?

Trump’s ‘Third World’ immigration pause is common sense

National Guard shooting raises risk of urban violence

Liberal women have abandoned marriage Right-wing chauvinism doesn’t help

The media ruined the Thanksgiving pie The holiday is a time for the classics

The triumph of the Trump Doctrine Execution is shoddy, but the change is real

The riot that saved America Republican activists stopped the steal in 2000

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Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

Where the Labour Right went wrong

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist

Netflix’s Warner Bros deal betrays its original purpose

Labour women’s conference is not ‘banning trans people’

The Liz Truss Show is sadder than it is funny

Venezuela war would undermine Trump’s National Security Strategy

Why US mass killings are nearing a two-decade low

Prince Harry doesn’t belong on late-night TV

Steven Pinker: Silicon Valley has become ‘neo-reactionary’

Labour has never been honest about the assisted dying bill

Is the West normalising mental health overdiagnosis?

The therapy-scholar is killing academia Emoting is valued above intellectual heft

The revolt on Streeting’s doorstep Leanne Mohamad is poised to overthrow him

How flirting lost its magic Pick-up artists had a point

Can we forgive Olivia Nuzzi? She is a tragic figure

Asset-hoarding Boomers rob the young Our finances have gone ‘Vanity Fair’

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Our Mission

Eurovision’s bum-note boycott Politics has silenced the Joy of Song

Trump faces looming MAGA revolt over data centres

Tesla slump sets up an EV battle with China

Nigel Farage: my relationship with Tucker Carlson has ‘cooled’

EU corruption scandal is another vindication of Brexit

Sam Altman is pursuing a dangerous AI arms race

Reform-Tory pact would be disastrous for the Right

Diddy Netflix documentary is a Foucauldian spectacle

Moscow talks expose the fantasy of a fair peace deal

Racial equity is hurting college math scores

Keir Starmer: there will be no blasphemy law

Republicans’ Tennessee victory can’t hide flawed messaging

Sarah Everard report will change nothing

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His 'outsider' status was a gift

The truth about hitmen Britain’s gangland killers are incompetent

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

My adopted baby was born an addict I understand why families can’t cope

Trump’s lawless narco-war The military-industrial complex feeds off conflict

We’ll miss the Eton of the Valleys Working-class boys thrived without girls

UK

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

NHS support for cousin marriage is a betrayal of women

Has Starmer given up on winning back Reform voters?