Baby Storme filming her single “This City is a Graveyard” in a Target. Credit: YouTube

08/17/2023 - 8:00am

TikTok warriors have turned against real workers Baby Storme's accusation illustrates the superficiality of online identity politics

Wednesday, August 16

The ghost of New Labour haunts Starmer in Scotland Gordon Brown's backseat driving won't depose the SNP

Javier Milei is not a South American Trump The winner of the Argentinian presidential primaries is an ultra-libertarian

Who is Humza Yousaf to talk about ‘toxic masculinity’? Scotland's First Minister has long turned a blind eye to the abuse of feminists

Cancelling our comedy show proves the point Comedy Unleashed has had its Edinburgh Fringe show called off

Tuesday, August 15

Nato official: Ukraine could cede territory to join alliance Stian Jenssen made the controversial proposal in Norway this week

Two years on, the Afghanistan disaster hasn’t happened Media coverage obscures uncomfortable elements of the Taliban's success

Falling rouble shows cracks in Russia’s war economy Oil prices can back up the currency, but not forever

Maximilian Hess

The Guardian uses selective polling on campus free speech The paper is desperate to disprove the idea of cancel culture

Could fantasy football help treat gambling addiction? A growing subculture of fans credit the online game for their recovery

Monday, August 14

Indian Americans are finding their political voice Vivek Ramaswamy is only the latest overachiever with roots in the subcontinent

Can Netflix tell if you’re gay? Algorithms are preempting young people coming out

Mary Harrington

Britain is not a poor country Comparisons to Germany don't tell the whole story

Germany cannot keep ignoring AfD voter concerns Despite efforts to ban the party, support is surging

A shortage of houses is not the problem Property has become overly financialised

Philip Pilkington

Saturday, August 12

Gen Z shouldn’t dismiss marriage so lightly A TikTok depicting the downsides of wedlock has gone viral

W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang

Friday, August 11

Joe Biden’s Chinese tech sanctions risk backfiring Pushing Beijing's economy to the brink will also hurt America

Marshall Auerback

Sam Harris has dumped the Intellectual Dark Web The heterodox thinker has been busy denouncing his former allies

Princess Diana’s bulimia isn’t a children’s story A picture book is no way to introduce the subject to girls

Americans vastly overestimate police brutality New research found that liberals are particularly susceptible

Thursday, August 10

Covid alarmism returns with the Eris variant The media is fuelling fear over an impending summer wave

Europe’s populist Right is far from united Despite a polling surge, the group has major ideological differences

France’s establishment strikes back at new Right-wing editor Geoffroy Lejeune is the enfant terrible French elites love to hate

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Welsh Labour is a warning to Keir Starmer The outgoing Mark Drakeford is no friend of the Union

Democrats should not get complacent over Donald Trump Joe Biden's party is too eager for a 2020 rematch

Wednesday, August 9

The UK is becoming an outlier on pornography Britain's attitude to regulation isn't laissez-faire — it's non-existent

Kristina Murkett

The ‘queering’ of the Mary Rose insults gay history The curation of objects from Henry VIII's flagship borders on narcissism

Is AI fuelling eating disorder content? A new report shows the ease of circumventing safety guardrails online

Why did Mhairi Black compare feminists to white supremacists? Misogyny appears to be an official SNP policy

Ukraine may pay a price for its Black Sea warfare Strikes on oil tankers risk a response from non-Western powers

William Nattrass

Tuesday, August 8

Debating Gavin Newsom will boost Ron DeSantis The two governors offer strikingly different visions for the country

Jennifer Aniston falls victim to ‘like’ vigilantes The actress came under fire for liking a post by Jamie Foxx