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The DEI industry’s most notorious grifters Offences range from exorbitant fees to outright fraud

Javier Milei’s libertarian experiment begins The new Argentinian president has had a busy first week in office

Juan David Rojas

Friday, December 15

Rishi Sunak’s social media ban is unworkable The PM's proposal ignores the damage caused by the algorithm

Kristina Murkett

John Mearsheimer: there is no two-state solution The foreign policy realist offered a grim assessment of the conflict

Are the police finally standing up for gender-critical feminists? Rachel Maclean has been given the protection she deserves

How an Elon Musk university could disrupt academia The billionaire is pumping $100 million into a new higher education scheme

Did social media activism hurt the Ukrainian cause? State-sponsored boosterism created a bubble of unrealistic expectations

Thursday, December 14

The Fed is playing a dangerous game on interest rates Chair Jerome Powell hinted that the Reserve may cut rates next year

Putin revels in a fractured West during annual call-in The Russian President is exploiting division in Washington

Bethany Elliott

Across America’s cities, voters are driving out progressives A recent spate of elections has sent a message to Left-wing leaders

Kemi Badenoch is right about Britain’s trans ‘epidemic’ Linguistic disputes can't disguise the surge in referrals

Josephine Bartosch

Don’t rule out a Conor McGregor presidency The MMA fighter has a better shot than many might think

Conor Fitzgerald

Wednesday, December 13

Labour won’t learn from Mark Drakeford’s failures The outgoing leader achieved almost nothing during his time in office

Ukraine’s accession to the EU could cost €190 billion Can the bloc afford a new member-state?

The AfD’s rise has become unstoppable Public trust in the government is falling, and the German Right stands to gain

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi’s Rwanda plan is destined to fail Yesterday's vote bought the PM time but not salvation

Tuesday, December 12

Support for Israel is falling across US and UK American support remains much higher than in Europe

What QALYs reveal about lockdowns Rishi Sunak has brought attention to a key measure of pandemic management

Andy Cook: how lockdowns broke Britain The Covid Inquiry is missing key facts

PEN America’s new president is no free speech champion Jennifer Finney Boylan disowned a letter signed by J.K. Rowling

Eliza Mondegreen

Rishi Sunak: lockdown costs outweighed benefits The PM quoted a significant QALY finding in yesterday's inquiry hearing

The Tory landslide was a lifetime ago Four years on, the party has forgotten what it was elected to do

Monday, December 11

Even Democrats are waking up to America’s campus crisis Concerns about the state of higher education have reached the White House

City Supervisor: San Francisco is not progressive enough Dean Preston defended his approach to tackling crime and homelessness in the city

The hidden meaning behind Alex Jones’s return to X Elon Musk has reinstated the InfoWars host on the platform

Mary Harrington

It’s too soon to topple Rishi Sunak Budding assassins on the Tory Right should hold fire if they want to reach power

The West is wrong about China’s economy Rumours of an impending collapse are greatly exaggerated

Philip Pilkington

Sunday, December 10

More than one in eight African Americans deny the Holocaust A new poll finds that anti-Israel feeling has developed into more extreme forms

The Battle for San Francisco Watch our documentary investigation into a city on the edge

UPenn president’s resignation could be a turning point Liz Magill stepped down following a Congressional hearing on antisemitism

Saturday, December 9

Conservatives are too obsessed with TikTok The platform is dangerous — but not for the reasons the Right thinks

Friday, December 8

Is TikTok really making young Americans antisemitic? Republican Nikki Haley made a questionable claim this week