Meet the new Russia, just like the old Russia. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

04/07/2022 - 8:00am

Russians are apathetic about Putin’s crimes in Ukraine In Moscow few care what's occurring south of the country's border

Wednesday, April 6

Alexei Navalny is no liberal hero A new documentary overlooks some of the campaigner's troubling history

Nicholas Harris

How will Viktor Orbán use his supermajority? The Hungarian PM has the power to make significant constitutional changes

William Nattrass

In Shanghai, Zero Covid means zero freedom Dystopian images are coming out of the Chinese city

The Left and Right are both wrong about Channel 4 Privatising it won't help either side

Astroturfing has come to social media Companies are secretly encouraging influencers to shill for their products

Study: divorce affects children more than death New research has made a startling discovery

Tuesday, April 5

The new Polish militarism Spooked by Ukraine, Poland is committing its resources to defence

Luka Ivan Jukic

Fewer university students would be a good thing Traditional degree courses will be a shrinking part of post-school education

Dot Cotton: the last great working-class dame June Brown gave representation to a neglected strand of British femininity

Monday, April 4

Even Twitter is ganging up on JK Rowling How much more does the author have to take?

Liberals were never prepared to beat Orban The Left's plan failed miserably

How TikTok glamourises mental health disorders Self-proclaimed ‘mental health advocates’ have become dangerously influential

Kristina Murkett

Can France’s deplorables secure a Le Pen victory? The country's disenfranchised could swing the election in her favour

Friday, April 1

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: France’s Corbyn takes on Macron The socialist veteran is surging in the polls

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

The Overton window for Christian beliefs is narrowing In Finland, two people were tried simply for quoting the Bible

Germany faces a spring of discontent The country recorded its highest inflation rate in 40 years

Good riddance to Britain’s Brutalist architecture I won’t mourn the disappearance of our post-war monstrosities

Don’t turn the Ukraine refugee crisis into a new normal Ultra-liberal immigration policies are domestically divisive

Thursday, March 31

Sajid Javid: Zero Covid has been a disaster The Health Secretary sat down with Freddie Sayers to look back at the pandemic

Has Putin’s invasion hurt the European Left? Across the continent, there have been opposite results

The NFT market is unravelling Despite a huge increase in sales, fraud has been rampant

The BBC’s faint praise for Mary Whitehouse A new documentary claims to be even-handed but can't quite manage it

Charlie Bentley-Astor

Wednesday, March 30

Sajid Javid: ‘When it comes to sport, it should be sex not gender’ The Health Secretary shared his thoughts on trans athletes with Freddie Sayers

Are Brits giving up on the NHS? A new poll finds that over two-thirds of the population are dissatisfied

Emily Bridges has no place in women’s cycling The cyclist's inclusion in the championship is unfair to women everywhere

Why is the UK shrinking its army in response to Ukraine? Ministers are invoking dubious analysis to justify cutbacks

Ukraine’s neighbours welcome refugees — but for how long? The citizens of Eastern Europe are already dividing along familiar lines

William Nattrass

Tuesday, March 29

The Russian army’s number one problem? Hazing Conscripts are poorly trained and face endless abuse

Katherine Bayford

Rishi Sunak’s plan to regulate crypto will fail Governments need to worry about trust, not controlling innovation

Philip Pilkington

For pro-lockdown campaigners, all roads lead to the Kochs The attempts to smear critics of lockdowns as Right-wingers will only backfire

Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorf

Ignore the wheat panic: the world still has plenty The war in Ukraine is unlikely to cause mass starvation