Colleagues try to help an off-duty police officer who was left unconscious. Credit: ACTU17

07/13/2023 - 5:00pm

Off-duty police officers targeted in French riots A disturbing development is emerging in the country's quiet suburbs

Erdogan’s EU bid is not what it seems He knows the bloc won't embrace Turkey as a member

For Europe’s future defence, look to the ‘quad’ France, Britain, Poland and Ukraine are serious about security

Blue states are learning the wrong lessons from Portugal Drug policy involves more than just decriminalisation

Charles Fain Lehman

Wednesday, July 12

The ‘black manosphere’ got there long before Andrew Tate Today's influencers weren't the first to warn about the masculinity crisis

Prof Ashok Swain: the strange disappearance of the anti-war movement The academic talks Nato, cluster bombs and escalation in Ukraine

Nato offers Ukraine the worst of all worlds Half a promise is worse than no promise at all

Nancy Kelley leaves Stonewall in a mess The outgoing charity boss dragged a once-great organisation down a rabbit hole

Josephine Bartosch

As trust in the US falls, countries want their gold back The seizure of Russia's foreign reserves marked the end of fair-play capitalism

Philip Cunliffe

Tuesday, July 11

Blame cancel culture for declining trust in universities New polling shows just how far public confidence has plummeted

Being fit is far-Right now, apparently A series of articles equate healthy living with fascism

In defence of Twitter anons There may be downsides, but anonymity has given social media its energy

Gender surgeon promotes bizarre range of ‘nonbinary surgeries’ Blair Peters's field has strayed from the core tenets of medical care

Eliza Mondegreen

Monday, July 10

Bank of England: digital currency will be a ‘step forward’ But Governor Andrew Bailey had a caveat

Jonah Hill has become a victim of his own therapy The actor cloaked coercive demands to his ex with the language of self-care

Kristina Murkett

Farewell Mark Rutte, Europe’s last centrist dad The Dutch PM's brand of modern, moderate conservatism is no more

It’s too late for Joe Biden to make friends with China The President has spent too long ostracising Xi Jinping

Philip Pilkington

Calls for violence in the trans debate only come from one side An activist advocated punching feminists at a rally this weekend

The promise of Nato membership won’t help Ukraine Expect vague rhetoric as leaders gather in Vilnius this week

William Nattrass

Friday, July 7

Starmer on education: a mashup of Blair and Alain de Botton The Labour leader's big speech was wordy and short on substance

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters, the blame game begins Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised allies for delaying arms shipments

William Nattrass

Germany ‘needs 1.5 million new immigrants per year’ Olaf Scholz claims only new arrivals can save the country's pension system

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi Sunak will survive the ‘mini-general election’ But three by-elections later this month will be brutal for the Tories

France’s riots are following the George Floyd playbook Protesters have targeted elite gentrified areas

Thursday, July 6

The shadow of Pax Romana The fragility of the greatest empire haunts us

The Russian economy is outperforming Germany’s Sanctions have been proved dramatically ineffective

Wolfgang Munchau

LGB Alliance’s victory is another loss for gender ideology Mermaids tried — and failed — to get the group struck off the charity register

Will Threads finish off Elon Musk? Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter alternative targets an already wounded rival

The rewritten history of Captain Tom The story told about the war veteran was always strangely partial

Is Europe going cold on Net Zero? The EU and UK appear less firmly committed to net neutrality by 2050

Wednesday, July 5

Macron is right: the French rioters are bored kids Social media and violent popular culture have made a bad situation worse

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

China gears up for trade war with latest export controls Beijing has the semiconductor and defence industries in its sights

Philip Pilkington