Irmgard Furchner in court on 20th December. Credit: Getty.

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Was this Germany’s last ever Nazi war crime trial? Irmgard Furchner's conviction brings belated justice to Holocaust survivors

Tuesday, December 20

There’s nothing hardline about Tory immigration policy Liberals are distracted by what the Government is saying rather than doing

ChatGPT’s score system shows political bias is no accident OpenAI's content filters use a questionable methodology to censor 'hate'

Leaked slides reveal dark side of Canada’s euthanasia policy Patients are now seeking death because they cannot afford to live

Joe Biden is wrong to end Title 42 Lifting the measure will result in millions more crossing the border

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Monday, December 19

Who could replace Elon Musk as Twitter’s new CEO? The tech entrepreneur may be stepping down sooner than expected

European populism is going mainstream The insurgent Right ebbs and flows, but keeps coming back

Why did students complain about my history talk? Apparently, I was guilty of affecting their mental well-being

A wage-price spiral won’t help workers Public opinion is already catching up with reality

Philip Pilkington

Is Elon Musk just another Silicon Valley CEO? The Twitter boss perfectly embodies Ayn Rand's rational egoism

Friday, December 16

Rusich: Russia’s neo-Nazi militia with broader ambitions The extremist group has been spotted alongside Putin's forces

Which party will speak for Britain’s working class? The great dealignment has made our workers a malleable voting bloc

Philip Cunliffe

New evidence confirms the Blob’s hawkishness Proximity to Washington leads to more support for military intervention

University of Edinburgh cancels gender identity film screening The shutdown of the event is another case of students stifling campus debate

Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ Epidemiologist at the centre of the Twitter Files storm speaks out

Thursday, December 15

Cambridge Dictionary doesn’t know what a woman is Its new definition is at odds with biological reality

Zero Covid means no ‘Chinese century’ Xi Jinping's Covid restrictions have stunted his country's progress

World Cup: multiple arrests but no major violence in Paris Rumours of an imminent civil war were greatly exaggerated

The EU is regulating itself into irrelevance From Twitter to greenhouse gas emissions, the answer is always more red tape

Ralph Schoellhammer

Wednesday, December 14

Were the Minsk agreements designed to fail? Russia has responded to controversial remarks made by Angela Merkel

Trans organisation pulls ‘biological condition’ article Translucent performed a U-turn after a wave of online criticism

A dark online Sandy Hook subculture is growing Social media platforms are awash with fanwork of Adam Lanza

The danger of the eurozone’s hidden divide Imbalances between nations are growing year-by-year

Sir Jeremy Farrar becomes WHO’s Chief Scientist The professor publicly dismissed the lab leak theory in 2020

Tuesday, December 13

Sex not limited to biological sex, Scottish court rules The decision has profoundly troubling consequences for women

Viktor Orbán names his price The Hungarian PM has fallen into line with EU leaders after a €5.8 billion deal

William Nattrass

The energy crisis has caught politicians cold The authorities failed to foresee the predictable winter gas demand

Philip Pilkington

Azadeh Moshiri exposes the flaws of diversity schemes A superficial focus on race ignores a more important element: class

Kristina Murkett

Elon Musk can’t have it both ways on free speech The Twitter CEO cannot own the public square while calling for prosecutions

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Monday, December 12

Now Ngozi Fulani’s charity faces the spotlight Sistah Space is being accused of unusual business practises

How deep does the EU’s corruption scandal go? Several arrests shed light on the shadowy role of NGOs in the bloc

William Nattrass

Podbabies: coming to a womb facility near you A dystopian concept imagines 30,000 lab-grown babies in AI-controlled pods

Mary Harrington