What's happening today beneath the surface

Explainer NOW

America cannot afford a forever war in Iran

Christopher McCallion

Analysis 2h

Analysis

analysis

Why China won’t come to Iran’s rescue

Miquel Vila

Debate 6h

Debate

Christine Lagarde’s ‘global euro’ is a fantasy

The most glaring flaw in her argument is her misunderstanding of the forces driving de-dollarization.

Thomas Fazi

Explainer 12h

Explainer

Can students be saved from ChatGPT?

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, June 18thWednesday
Jun 18^th

Debate 19:30

Debate

debate

Is Israel’s criticism of Iran consistent?

Ben Burgis

Reaction 17:45

Reaction

Von der Leyen’s anti-China turn has been forced by tariffs

The EU has looked into the abyss of a trade war with the US and is pulling back

Wolfgang Munchau

Analysis 13:50

Analysis

New MI6 chief could mend fragile CIA relations

Tara McKelvey

Explainer 11:35

Explainer

explainer

The case for decriminalizing abortion

Ella Whelan

Analysis 07:45

Analysis

G7 disarray shows Starmer is no ‘Trump whisperer’

Bethany Elliott

View more from the newsroom

Crypto

The stablecoin time bomb hidden in Trump’s GENIUS act

Yanis Varoufakis

6 mins

Self-help

United States of (Jane) Austen They’ve turned her into a self-help guru

Lily Isaacs

5 mins

19 Jun

Near Abroad

How Iran lost the Middle East Its proxies are sick of dying for the ayatollah

Michal Kranz

5 mins

19 Jun

Self-help

United States of (Jane) Austen They’ve turned her into a self-help guru

Lily Isaacs

5 mins

19 Jun

Near Abroad

How Iran lost the Middle East Its proxies are sick of dying for the ayatollah

Michal Kranz

5 mins

19 Jun

John Rapley: The global economy is teetering

Is Israel’s criticism of Iran consistent?

Trump, druidry and barbarian politics

America cannot afford a forever war in Iran

Why China won’t come to Iran’s rescue

Christine Lagarde’s ‘global euro’ is a fantasy

Can students be saved from ChatGPT?

Is Israel’s criticism of Iran consistent?

Von der Leyen’s anti-China turn has been forced by tariffs

New MI6 chief could mend fragile CIA relations

The case for decriminalizing abortion

G7 disarray shows Starmer is no ‘Trump whisperer’

The stablecoin time bomb hidden in Trump’s GENIUS act

United States of (Jane) Austen They’ve turned her into a self-help guru

How Iran lost the Middle East Its proxies are sick of dying for the ayatollah

United States of (Jane) Austen They’ve turned her into a self-help guru

How Iran lost the Middle East Its proxies are sick of dying for the ayatollah

United States of (Jane) Austen They’ve turned her into a self-help guru

How Iran lost the Middle East Its proxies are sick of dying for the ayatollah

From the UK edition

Labor is right to demand ECHR reform

John Swinney has made Scottish independence more distant than ever

Louise Casey: grooming gangs are still active in UK

Grooming gangs report lays bare generational cover-up

Increased NHS privatization is an expensive mistake

Can Labour afford British involvement in Iran?

Darren Jones has revealed Labour’s immigration confusion

The Church of England is suffering from social justice fatigue

The Green Party is still in thrall to gender ideology

Are Tory MPs really going to defect to Lib Dems over ECHR?

Stella Creasy’s fight for relevance Does she represent Walthamstow or Cosmo?

The dark truth about Peter Krykant

Britain’s new caste system

Trump’s military takeover

Watch & listen

Politics

America cannot afford a forever war in Iran

Christine Lagarde’s ‘global euro’ is a fantasy

Labor is right to demand ECHR reform

Stella Creasy’s fight for relevance

How woke doomed Dems on the border

Will Democratic cities fight Trump’s ICE expansion?

Will Israel-Iran war lead to an oil shock?

Trump-Carney G7 meeting has not defused trade fears

War with Iran could destroy Trump’s legacy

NS Lyons joins US State Department

Sabrina Carpenter is a deeply boring sex symbol

The global economy is teetering The Middle East war has exposed a fragile order

Can China rescue the classics? Greek philosophy may be of ideological use

India can’t win a war with Pakistan Modi has everything to lose

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

How woke doomed Dems on the border Any restriction was forbidden

How data wrecked American warfare Robert McNamara remade the military

Our Mission

The regime change maniacs are back Iran is in their sights, and they’ve learned nothing

AI is killing jobs and fueling campus radicalism

Are Chinese robots in the West a Trojan horse?

Banning Bonnie Blue won’t sanitize OnlyFans

A national grooming gangs inquiry is long overdue

Meta chatbot shows why AI privacy is a delusion

Darren Jones has revealed Labour’s immigration confusion

The Church of England is suffering from social justice fatigue

Katy Perry is pointing us to the Moon Nasa must beat China

Welcome to the age of Otaku Ghibli memes are just the start

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Who will win the Battle of the Beckhams? Brooklyn is a talentless scion

Japan’s humiliation of South Korea They should be the best of friends

Culture

Edmund White was the master chronicler of hidden gay life

The BBC has let Paris Lees rewrite womanhood

Kehinde Andrews’s attack on academic language comes too late

Britain’s new caste system

Dior’s faux feminism

Is the US facing its own Tavistock moment?

Israeli strikes spark anti-regime sentiment across Iran

WTA’s egg freezing policy is a win for women

Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

Is Israel about to bomb Iran — or just bluffing for Trump?