What's happening today beneath the surface

Saturday, June 14thSaturday
Jun 14^th

Online 17:32

Online

Meta chatbot shows why AI privacy is a delusion

Put simply, nothing you tell a chatbot today is safe from future exposure.

Oliver Bateman

Friday, June 13thFriday
Jun 13^th

Analysis 19:00

Analysis

Is the US facing its own Tavistock moment?

The Trump administration has taken actions to make this happen.

John Murawski

Reaction 17:00

Reaction

Israeli strikes spark anti-regime sentiment across Iran

David Rose and Ali Hamedani

Debate 14:45

Debate

WTA’s egg freezing policy is a win for women

Ruxandra Teslo

Reaction 12:02

Reaction

reaction

Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

Kyle Orton

Thursday, June 12thThursday
Jun 12^th

Analysis 21:00

Analysis

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

Tom Rogan

Review 18:30

Review

NYT trans podcast fails to grapple with detransitioners

The Protocol never quite admits that Democrats left a vacuum, which Republicans filled.

Lisa Selin Davis

Dispatch 17:00

Dispatch

dispatch

Inside New York City’s anti-ICE protests

Lily Isaacs

Analysis 13:00

Analysis

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

John Rapley

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weekend essay

Iran’s devastating hubris Will Trump show restraint?

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

War

Why Israel had no choice Tehran endangers the whole Middle East

Edward Luttwak

4 mins

13 Jun

Weekend Interview

Can Steve Hilton save California? He talks Los Angeles, Gavin Newsom and Republican revolution

Ian Birrell

11 mins

14 Jun

Philosophy

The philosophy of Silicon Valley Christians Tech bros misunderstand René Girard

Alexander Douglas

6 mins

13 Jun

Gender wars

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism? He’s paid a steep cost for trans dissent

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

10 Jun

Philosophy

The philosophy of Silicon Valley Christians Tech bros misunderstand René Girard

Alexander Douglas

6 mins

13 Jun

Gender wars

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism? He’s paid a steep cost for trans dissent

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

10 Jun

Jonathan Wilson: Fifa doesn’t care about football

Will Israel finally topple the Iranian regime?

Democrats’ civil war

Meta chatbot shows why AI privacy is a delusion

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?

NYT trans podcast fails to grapple with detransitioners

Inside New York City’s anti-ICE protests

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

Iran’s devastating hubris Will Trump show restraint?

Why Israel had no choice Tehran endangers the whole Middle East

Can Steve Hilton save California? He talks Los Angeles, Gavin Newsom and Republican revolution

The philosophy of Silicon Valley Christians Tech bros misunderstand René Girard

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism? He’s paid a steep cost for trans dissent

The philosophy of Silicon Valley Christians Tech bros misunderstand René Girard

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism? He’s paid a steep cost for trans dissent

Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs Shifty is a horror story

Why Israel had no choice Tehran endangers the whole Middle East

From the UK edition

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?

Will decriminalizing rough sleeping lead to migrant tent cities?

Labor spending review is a fiscal fantasy

Dominic Cummings: Whitehall is terrified of violence breaking out

Will Foreign Office staff resign over Gaza?

Sizewell C looks like an expensive mistake

Labour’s winter fuel U-turn is government by PR stunt

Trump’s military takeover His politicized army is un-American

Can Keir Starmer stop Reform?

Fifa doesn’t care about soccer

Why Ballymena is burning

Watch & listen

Politics

Darren Jones has revealed Labour’s immigration confusion

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

Gold’s strength should worry the Fed

Can Steve Hilton save California?

Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs

Trump’s $1,000 baby accounts won’t help parents

LA protests expose limits of Waymo’s street intelligence

Democrats are dangerously split over California protests

LA riots are descending into ethnic conflict

Trump was right to send the National Guard to LA

Mark Rutte: Trump broke the Russia-Ukraine deadlock

Why men are outspending women on Botox

Could a socialist take New York? Moderate minorities will decide the Dems’ fate

‘I Kissed a Boy’ pays lip service to dogma Contestants don't practice what they preach

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

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs Shifty is a horror story

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

Our Mission

Musk has lost his MAGA gamble Business and politics aren’t the same

LA riots reflect failure of progressive leadership

Is Nucleus Genomic rigging the genetic lottery?

Elon Musk is on the path to political exile

Daily Mail’s praise of Kemi Badenoch ignores Tory failures

Kilmar Abrego Garcia return is a victory for due process

JD Vance: Elon Musk may not be welcome back

Should Trump nationalize SpaceX and Starlink?

Burkas are regressive and misogynistic — but they shouldn’t be banned

How data wrecked American warfare Robert McNamara remade the military

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

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Why Israel had no choice Tehran endangers the whole Middle East

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

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

Dior’s faux feminism

Can Jesse Singal save liberalism?

Musk’s influence in DC was always overhyped