New Orleans attack will inspire more vehicle-ramming terrorism

Soaring gold prices are a bad omen for the dollar Analysts are tipping the metal to hit $10,000 an ounce by the end of the decade

Philip Pilkington

Thursday

02.01

Meta’s AI drive could kill off social media Plans to flood the internet with bots point to an increasingly unreal future

Why is Labour rejecting a national grooming gangs inquiry? Jess Phillips is still resistant to the truth about the scandal

New Orleans attack proves the persistence of Isis ideology

Britain needs an emergency census Swelling immigration has changed the country swiftly and irreversibly

Wednesday

01.01

China’s economy is far from buried Despite a slowdown, Beijing is rolling out new measures in 2025

The problem with Netflix’s ‘casual viewing’

EU targeting of Orbán should worry other member states By permanently withdrawing funds, Brussels is showing its authoritarian side once again

Tuesday

31.12

Vladimir Putin may not have to compromise over Ukraine Russia is winning — and Trump doesn't have the patience for drawn-out negotiations

Bethany Elliott

Has Elon Musk’s X algorithm change backfired? The tech mogul has been accused of censoring his online critics

What Jimmy Carter can teach Donald Trump

Lisa Nandy’s Big Tech warning won’t protect children The Culture Secretary's attempts to challenge online content don't go far enough

Kristina Murkett

Monday

30.12

MAGA’s expansionism will embolden China How serious are Trump's territorial ambitions in Mexico and Canada?

Kemi Badenoch lacks a strategy to see off Nigel Farage

OnlyFans is exploitation dressed up as feminism The site hides its criminal misogyny behind a progressive facade

Josephine Bartosch

Britain’s two-party system is crumbling New polling shows the coming threat to the Labour-Conservative duopoly

Sunday

29.12

Will Trump listen to populist base over looming TikTok ban?

Turkey’s resurgence has left the West flat-footed Erdoğan has designs on gaining influence in Syria — and in Jerusalem

Philip Pilkington

Keir Starmer’s quango drive weakens British democracy Non-elected bodies are growing exponentially

British Transport Police deserves to lose trans court challenge The public body is being sued for allowing trans-identified men to strip-search women

Saturday

28.12

EU bureaucracy is provoking a fresh energy crisis

Ralph Schoellhammer

Labour’s Net Zero plans will lead to carmaker exodus A Nissan-Honda merger is bad news for Britain

Will Labour try to cut Reform UK’s mega-donations? A mooted change to funding rules could backfire

Friday

27.12

Trump’s AI appointment exposes rift between tech Right and MAGA base

Europe’s Ukraine fatigue paves way for peace deal New polling shows the continent is losing faith

Bethany Elliott

Is Nigel Farage the new Leader of the Opposition? Reform UK is claiming that it now has more members than the Tories

James Sean Dickson

Thursday

26.12

Republicans, not Democrats, are the biggest threat to Trump The President-elect's majorities in Congress are razor-thin

The strange military history of Boxing Day

Can the Democrats win back religious voters? Prominent figures are urging the party to re-embrace faith

Wednesday

25.12

National Trust will regret modernist Clandon Park restoration The charity's approach ignores what Britons love about these buildings

Nicholas Boys Smith

Could Pierbattista Pizzaballa be the next Pope?

Tuesday

24.12

Progressive policies are fuelling rise in New York subway murders This year is set to be the deadliest in decades

Report: SAGE Covid modelling made huge overestimates

UK recession fears could force out Rachel Reeves The Chancellor's tax policies now appear untenable

Monday

23.12

Will Matt Gaetz survive House Ethics report?

Magdeburg was not a far-Right attack Terrorists increasingly act on grievances that elude any single ideology

Elbridge Colby: the brain behind Trump’s foreign policy The China hawk is lined up for a key Pentagon role

Kazan strike shows Ukraine’s growing boldness

Bethany Elliott

Sunday

22.12

Magdeburg attack puts migration at heart of Germany’s election An establishment silence around the issue has been broken

Michael Bröning

Sadiq Khan is failing Londoners on housing The Mayor has little to show for eight years in office

James Sean Dickson

Peter Mandelson is a canny choice for US ambassador The New Labour grandee can convince Trump of Britain's importance

Saturday

21.12

Magdeburg suspect prompts more questions than answers

Ralph Schoellhammer

EU resorts to Brexit lawfare despite Starmer’s Europe reset The bloc is softening up Britain ahead of a withdrawal agreement

Philip Cunliffe

The Bank of England has turned on Labour’s Budget Central bankers are blaming Starmer and Reeves for rising inflation

Philip Pilkington

Friday

20.12

Government shutdown is a fight for the future of MAGA

Emily Jashinsky

Labour can’t fix Britain’s benefits problem Over half of Britons receive more from the state than they pay in

America is abandoning Syria’s Kurds Turkish troops are gathering on the border as the West turns away

François Bayrou is already causing Macron problems France's new PM remains deeply unpopular

Europe is sabotaging Ukraine by delaying peace talks The West risks leaving Trump and Putin to decide the war's outcome

Thursday

19.12

Have the Never Trumpers admitted defeat?

Will CNN apologise for its Syrian prisoner misinformation? Clarissa Ward represents much of what is wrong with journalism

Labour has broken its promises on single-sex spaces Anneliese Dodds has approved self-ID by the back door

Denmark’s Quran law shows hypocrisy of criticising Iran Outrage at a singer's arrest rings hollow from a country still in fear of blasphemy

Felice Basbøll

Homeschooling wasn’t to blame for Sara Sharif’s murder

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

18.12

Politically divided housing: more proof of American polarisation Real estate platform Oyssey lets homebuyers check their neighbours' voting record

Chinese spy case won’t change Labour’s Beijing policy Keir Starmer must maintain diplomatic ties, despite the sins of Xi Jinping

Judith Butler is no longer a feminist

Wisconsin school shooting: online conspiracies are the new normal Social media sleuths are shaping narratives for their own ends

Justin Trudeau’s own party is pushing him to the brink Canada's embattled PM is clinging on — for now

China’s ‘United Front’ is the centre of a global spy ring

Tuesday

17.12

Donald Trump would be unwise to clamp down on the media Big networks will survive DOGE's cut recommendations

Emily Jashinsky

Turkey and Israel are now the Middle East’s powerbrokers Assad's fall is pushing Europe to appease Erdoğan and Netanyahu

Could Trump create a new monetary system? Treasury secretary pick Scott Bessent has spoken of a global 'realignment'

Philip Pilkington

Why is the SNP spending millions on foreign aid?

Iain Macwhirter

New Ofcom guidance will stifle free speech online Big Tech companies have received an invitation to silence the powerless

Timandra Harkness

Monday

16.12

Luigi Mangione has sparked a healthcare debate in America It shouldn't have taken Brian Thompson's murder for things to change

Trump should ignore hawks and withdraw from Syria Pursuing terrorists does not require occupying the areas in which they operate

Americans are right to be worried about New Jersey drones

Germany’s ‘Dunkelflaute’ is causing an energy crisis in Europe Renewable energy production has caused a price spike on the continent

France’s downgraded credit rating spells trouble for the West Rising interest rates are hampering efforts to rein in deficit spending

Sunday

15.12

Perry Link: another scholar subjected to DEI inquisition US academic's treatment by the University of California looks dispiritingly normal

Is Steven Bartlett finally facing a reckoning?

1 Undershaft: a soulless addition to London’s skyline Eric Parry's skyscraper looks like a data centre

Saturday

14.12

Olaf Scholz’s destructive policies will survive the next election

Ralph Schoellhammer

US government losing public trust over New Jersey drones A failure to be transparent is inviting further scrutiny

Are progressive policies to blame for Scottish school absences? Restorative justice schemes have widened the gap with England

Kristina Murkett

Friday

13.12

MAGA embraces the vaccine-autism theory

Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-Trump turn is good business The Meta CEO recently donated $1 million to the President-elect's inaugural fund

Why did liberals ignore cousin marriage for so long? Fear of offending Muslims trumped female welfare

Ed Miliband’s offshore wind expansion is already doomed Electricity produced in Scotland still can't be used in England

Gaza independents party confirms rise of UK sectarianism