Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, and his mercenaries in Bakhmut

05/22/2023 - 8:15am

The fall of Bakhmut has major implications for Ukraine There are fears that Russian troops will make further territorial gains

Sunday, May 21

Martin Amis was the last great literary cynic The author has been succeeded by a far more sincere generation

Friday, May 19

Why Cannes gave Johnny Depp a hero’s welcome The film festival has reinvented itself as the capital of the anti-woke pushback

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Greece: a rare case of an effective conservative government By talking less, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has achieved a lot more

Chinese cars are about to wreck the German market Government subsidies for electric vehicles are hurting domestic suppliers

Ralph Schoellhammer

Finally, the BBC gets a sex attacker’s pronouns right Unlike Isla Bryson, Andrew Miller is being referred to as a man

BuzzFeed plans to generate most of its articles from AI The embattled company told investors it is putting its hopes in technology

Thursday, May 18

Is Nato really an LGBT ally? Jens Stoltenberg's remarks about homophobia won't go down well in Turkey

Where is Rishi Sunak’s industrial strategy? Britain is tearing up its existing policies as its rivals steam ahead

Just how deep does Ukrainian corruption go? Volodymyr Zelenskyy sees it as a threat to his government

Maximilian Hess

Nationalising the energy sector won’t work Unite's proposal makes little sense in practice

Philip Pilkington

What the New York Times gets wrong about detransitioning The newspaper is painting a one-sided picture

Eliza Mondegreen

Wednesday, May 17

The Durham report is a total whitewash The inquiry into Russiagate lets the FBI and the media off the hook

Ashley Rindsberg

Keir Starmer finally punches the Tories where it hurts Housing is a big weak spot for the Conservatives

James Sean Dickson

Ukraine’s F-16 fighter jets break another weapons taboo Rishi Sunak has pledged to provide a new level of air support

The ‘degrowth’ lobby is on the rise A well-funded movement is arguing against economic growth

Here in Taiwan, nobody mentions the war Despite the looming Chinese threat, a calmness pervades the island

Tuesday, May 16

Sir Richard Dearlove: British elites are China’s useful idiots The former MI6 boss spoke out at a conference today

Gavin Newsom meets reality with California’s budget deficit The Governor can no longer satisfy both ends of his party

The baby problem is not confined to liberal democracies Miriam Cates identified the issue, but she is wrong about the cause

Steely Dan: the original postliberals of pop The duo's cautionary lyrics have received new attention from Generation Z

Why the Online Right deifies Daniel Penny The ex-Marine who killed Jordan Neely has been compared to a Roman emperor

Monday, May 15

Does Suella Braverman really want lower migration? Tory rhetoric masks a serious lack of action

Faltering Lukashenko presents an opportunity for Putin His rumoured illness could boost Russia's war effort

Bethany Elliott

Does Ukraine have Brexit to thank for Western support? Jacob Rees-Mogg has more of a point than Remainers think

The UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba Its view of the Israel-Palestine conflict is extremely one-sided

National conservatives versus anti-authoritarian populists There's a new divide on the Right that will decide the future of conservatism

Sunday, May 14

Bashar al-Assad could be the real winner of Turkey’s election Frontrunner Kemal Kilicdaroglu wants to reconcile with Syria

Friday, May 12

Welcome to the lucrative world of AI girlfriends An online influencer is capitalising on modern loneliness

Kristina Murkett

The media’s race obsession is too black and white A new US study shows that other groups are widely ignored

Jukka Savolainen

Millennial Millie is no better than Mondeo Man Imagined voter archetypes are a media preoccupation

Will Linda Yaccarino turn Twitter into a dating site? The new CEO could temper some of Elon Musk's wackier reforms

Mary Harrington