September 4, 2025

England’s ‘Raise the Colours’ inspires flag protests in Dublin

Rachel Reeves is not to blame for spiralling UK gilt yields Decades of rising imports and plateauing exports have left Britain worse off

Wednesday

03.09

Will Democratic mayors follow Muriel Bowser’s Trump pivot? The DC leader has welcomed federal intervention in the capital

Emily Jashinsky

Google’s legal respite is not the end of its troubles This week’s antitrust trial puts the White House in a difficult spot

Andrew Orlowski

Tom Homan: the border wall saves lives

Afghanistan earthquake awakens anti-Taliban resistance Politicians are offering religious rhetoric rather than aid relief

Is therapy to blame for the sex recession? New data points to a further decline in intimacy

Osaka protests are just the start of Japan’s immigration backlash

Tuesday

02.09

National Guard ruling will play into Trump’s hands The President can frame the decision as proof of his political courage

Trump is overlooking rural America’s homicide problem Crime in Southern and Western towns has received scant attention

Jeff Bloodworth

Zack Polanski is a threat to Jeremy Corbyn

John Bolton: Ukraine should have joined Nato in 2008 Trump’s former advisor has suggested war could have been avoided

Chris Columbus doesn’t understand why he disagrees with JK Rowling Trans activists still refuse to engage with gender-critical arguments

Monday

01.09

Putin-Xi alliance highlights Western fractures Europe and America are far from united in the face of the Chinese threat

Bethany Elliott

My neighbour’s child only ever knew war in Gaza

Are teenage girls really unhappier than boys? Generation Z anxiety has been supercharged by the pandemic

Mary Harrington

North Sea oil won’t save the Tories — or Britain Kemi Badenoch is wrong to suggest increased extraction will cut bills

Epping tips back into unrest after migrant hotel ruling Locals protested this weekend against the Court of Appeal decision

Sunday

31.08

Trans disagreements already threaten new Corbyn party

Chickenpox jab rollout risks repeating Covid-era mistakes Faith in government messaging on vaccines has still not recovered

Cologne immigration pact opens door for AfD German parties have agreed not to discuss the negative effects of foreign arrivals

Saturday

30.08

Will Trump make Penn Station beautiful again?

Nicholas Boys Smith

Can Farage protect Reform UK from audience capture? James McMurdock’s race row shows an unsettling proximity to the far-Right

Rachel Reeves’s bank raid will drive Britain into stagnation Labour is trapped in a cycle of crisis management

Friday

29.08

Democrats’ dark-money empire is falling apart

Emily Jashinsky

Epping ruling is a hollow victory for Labour

Norway’s divestment from Israel is purely symbolic Any sanctions programme not backed by Washington is powerless

Maximilian Hess

Tony Blair is not the answer to the Gazan crisis A history of prior failures in the Middle East hasn’t deterred the former PM

A European ‘reassurance force’ in Ukraine is a fantasy The continent is utterly incapable of providing sufficient support

Thursday

28.08

Progressives underestimate the danger of subway disorder

Rafael A. Mangual

Trump, like Obama, is overreaching on gender in schools Presidents should stop politicising the curriculum

Lisa Selin Davis

Purple Aki revealed Liverpool’s uneasy racial politics