Anti-refugee protests at East Wall, Ireland

12/12/2022 - 7:00am

Are protests bringing Right-wing populism to Ireland? The carefully placed cordon sanitaire around certain issues is breaking

Conor Fitzgerald

Friday, December 9

Meghan and Harry are right about the royal briefing war Courtiers are the real power behind the throne

Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper?

ChatGPT: a morbid symptom of our declining universities The AI chatbot threatens academics because teaching quality is now so low

Philip Cunliffe

The future of the Wagner Group rests on Bakhmut The mercenary force is leading the charge for a key battleground in Ukraine

Welcome to the Dyson Zone: your isolated world The latest gadget from the British inventor is dystopian

Thursday, December 8

Canada’s euthanasia regime is a cautionary tale for the UK British MPs' enquiry into assisted dying is a dangerous move

Mary Harrington

The greatest threat to free speech is the EU Unlike in the US, compulsory 'moderation' of social media is already written in law

Chinese anti-lockdown protestors: heroes, not loons The establishment media is adopting a very different tone for the latest protests

Panda La Terriere

Keir Starmer has sold out to the City Labour's leader may have cured his party's money problems — but at what cost?

Wednesday, December 7

The Reichsbürger coup attempt is a warning to Germany Democracy is at its most fragile during periods of economic crisis

Ralph Schoellhammer

ChatGPT is not politically neutral The new AI chatbot espouses an all-too-familiar Left-liberal worldview

France’s moderate Right is drifting into irrelevance Les Républicains is surrounded by parties with more charismatic figureheads

Francois Valentin

Why is the Biological Weapons Convention not getting attention? A significant global development has received barely any coverage

Izabella Kaminska

The EU may blink first in its Orbán standoff Hungary has shown the bloc that it also has cards to play

William Nattrass

Tuesday, December 6

Democrats’ new calendar is a coup for the Establishment In the name of diversity, the party is kneecapping progressives

Why did Slate change its Covid headline? The article's title was gradually watered down

The absurdity of California’s reparations proposal Activists are focusing on past injustice at the expense of present inequality

Labour’s constitutional plans are dangerous Gordon Brown's ideas would make the country ungovernable

The Russian oil price cap won’t work Europe will inflict more damage on its own economy than Russia's

Philip Pilkington

Monday, December 5

The most surprising revelation in Elon Musk’s Twitter files Despite the CEO's claim, there was no evidence of government collusion

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won’t save us The Woke Inc. author on why Musk's Twitter takeover is not all it seems

Panda La Terriere

Keir Starmer can finish what the Tories started The Labour leader is finally unveiling some policy — he needn't look far

Goodbye Eddie Izzard — and good riddance Perhaps going 'girl mode' wasn't such a good idea

King Charles should not meet Ngozi Fulani An overly apologetic monarchy will not survive

It’s time to end gas sanctions on Russia Europe is facing a long and dark winter

Philip Cunliffe

Saturday, December 3

Five ways Labour can make Brexit work Keir Starmer needs to champion his own kind of levelling-up

Jonathan Rutherford

Friday, December 2

Will the Democrats turn their back on Israel? A new Right-wing government led by Benjamin Netanyahu may cause problems

Oxford students are going back to the dark ages History graduate Ellie Hargreaves is the latest to be burnt at the stake

It’s time to leave Kanye West alone The music artist needs help, not attention

Chester result could have been worse for the Tories The outcome doesn't suggest a 1997-style wipeout

Covid protests may pose a longer-term threat to Xi’s China It's not just the Zero Covid measures that demonstrators are angry about