What's happening today beneath the surface

Monday, November 24th Monday
Nov 24^th

Debate 07:00

Debate

Europe's peace plan for Ukraine is a futile gesture

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, November 23rd Sunday
Nov 23^rd

Reaction 19:00

Reaction

X’s location tags expose the real engines of online outrage

Oliver Bateman

Debate 16:00

Debate

Church weddings are an antidote to liquid modernity

Binding yourself to another person is a profoundly counter-cultural act.

Niall Gooch

Explainer 13:00

Explainer

Trump peace plan offers Ukraine a Finnish model for success

Johan Wennström

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Weekend History

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

Jeff Bloodworth

8 mins

22 Nov 2025 -

Weekend review

The horndog rebellion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The film mistakes lust for liberation

Matt Feeney

8 mins

22 Nov 2025 -

Identity

Confessions of a Heritage American Do I fit into the white-nationalist utopia?

Michael Lind

8 mins

21 Nov 2025 -

Books

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov 2025 -

Books

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov 2025 -

Mental Health

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

Dispatch

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

From the UK edition

Monday, November 24th Monday
Nov 24^th

Analysis 10:00

Analysis

Rachel Reeves’s Budget is putting Labour over the UK economy

John Rapley

Sunday, November 23rd Sunday
Nov 23^rd

Reaction 08:00

Reaction

NHS puberty blocker trial puts vulnerable children at risk

Joan Smith

Friday, November 21st Friday
Nov 21^st

Analysis 07:00

Analysis

Covid Inquiry doubles down on myths that justified lockdowns

Leaders remain determined to evade accountability for the devastation they inflicted.

David Paton

Thursday, November 20th Thursday
Nov 20^th

Reaction 15:45

Reaction

New EHRC guidance reinforces gender stereotypes

Victoria Smith

Explainer 13:00

Explainer

Britain’s narrowing roads are a new war on cars

The new advice shows a total lack of imagination for the future of transport use.

Tim Abrahams

Debate 07:00

Debate

British Steel sale threatens national security

Andrew O'Brien

Wednesday, November 19th Wednesday
Nov 19^th

Reaction 07:00

Reaction

Shabana Mahmood’s rise is frightening the Left

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, November 18th Tuesday
Nov 18^th

News 13:30

News

Nigel Farage calls for visa bans on Nigeria and Eritrea

Archie Earle

Reaction 07:00

Reaction

Shabana Mahmood’s visa ban doesn’t go far enough

Tom Jones

Monday, November 17th Monday
Nov 17^th

Reaction 07:00

Reaction

Can Angela Rayner fix a broken Labour Party?

Jonny Ball

Sex

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

weekend analysis

Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission Can Labour return to its working-class roots?

Jonny Ball

8 mins

22 Nov 2025 -

Dispatch

Meet Faversham’s answer to Akhmed Yakoob A young activist is embracing working-class rage

Fred Sculthorp

7 mins

21 Nov 2025 -

The Ashes

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Tim Wigmore

6 mins

20 Nov 2025 -

Poppy Sowerby on the empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’

Olivia Nuzzi is the inheritor of New Journalism

The truth about 'Smart Cities'

Europe's peace plan for Ukraine is a futile gesture

X’s location tags expose the real engines of online outrage

Church weddings are an antidote to liquid modernity

Trump peace plan offers Ukraine a Finnish model for success

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

The horndog rebellion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The film mistakes lust for liberation

Confessions of a Heritage American Do I fit into the white-nationalist utopia?

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Rachel Reeves’s Budget is putting Labour over the UK economy

NHS puberty blocker trial puts vulnerable children at risk

Covid Inquiry doubles down on myths that justified lockdowns

New EHRC guidance reinforces gender stereotypes

Britain’s narrowing roads are a new war on cars

British Steel sale threatens national security

Shabana Mahmood’s rise is frightening the Left

Nigel Farage calls for visa bans on Nigeria and Eritrea

Shabana Mahmood’s visa ban doesn’t go far enough

Can Angela Rayner fix a broken Labour Party?

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission Can Labour return to its working-class roots?

Meet Faversham’s answer to Akhmed Yakoob A young activist is embracing working-class rage

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Watch & listen

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

Is Pennsylvania slipping out of Trump’s grasp?

Inside Trump and Mamdani's unlikely alliance

Europe’s migrant return scheme is doomed to fail

Why is America selling its schools to China? ‘Red Fred’ has the answer

The futility of retiree protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

The Econoclasts

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Our Mission

Russia’s veterans are bringing violence home The state keeps them in battle mode

Ukraine-Russia peace plan offers best chance to end the war

Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation

UK Covid Inquiry is an exercise in political theater

Germany is not ready to lead Nato forces in Europe

Why Human Design is perfect for our age It’s religion for the LinkedIn class

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

The Econoclasts

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Jimmy Kimmel suspension confirms comedy belongs to the Right

National Gallery’s modern art push is a disaster for the Tate

Chris Columbus doesn’t understand why he disagrees with JK Rowling

‘Bugonia’ captures American paranoia

Film buffs are Frankenstein's real monsters

Tom Steyer would drag California further Left on climate

Don’t confuse the AI bubble with dotcom mania

German censorship funding increases by 500% since 2020

Will Netanyahu finally crack down on settler violence?

Revised HHS trans report exposes moral failures in gender medicine

Hawks are trying to drag America into war with Venezuela

Olivia Nuzzi is the inheritor of New Journalism

France-Ukraine deal can’t hide leaders’ unpopularity

Jack Schlossberg’s ChatGPT candidacy Three generations of Kennedys are enough

Trump’s monumentalistic aesthetic He wants to memorialize America's greatness

Estonian opioids are heading for Britain Nitazenes are far deadlier than fentanyl

China vs. the dollar & Europe’s far-Right failure

The Econoclasts

What progressives won't say about abortion The sanitized narrative ignores ethical truths

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Do we really want a world without mothers?

AI companions are destroying human relationships

NHS support for cousin marriage is a betrayal of women