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03/28/2022 - 6:21pm

Is Emmanuel Macron frightened of Vladimir Putin? Fear is one explanation for the French President's diplomatic efforts

Why the Will Smith slap is good news Our ADHD culture only survives off such 'scissor events'

Is John Mearsheimer guilty of “toxic masculinity”? Foreign policy realists are being seen through the prism of gender

Mary Harrington

The exodus continues from America’s biggest cities Covid, crime and hybrid work are remaking urban life

OSINT is having a bad war Open source intelligence cannot see through the fog of war

Andrew Orlowski

Saturday, March 26

Buzzfeed was never as brilliant as it thought it was So long and thanks for all the listicles

Friday, March 25

The Tories finally repeal a bad law The end of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act should inspire Conservatives

The EU was doomed from the start As the union celebrates its 65th, it's time to think about retirement

Self-ID will not give trans people “dignity and respect” Why is Caroline Nokes pushing so hard against current Government policy?

Don’t let the lockdown hawks re-write history Certain commentators are claiming ZeroCovid was a purely pre-vaccine measure

Why are so many Russian generals dying? Soviet-era command structures are, strangely, still in place

Katherine Bayford

Thursday, March 24

Post-sanctions life in Moscow is… not that different The effects have not kicked in for ordinary Russians — yet

Constantin Duhamel

Demanding roubles for gas is a victory for Putin The Russian's decision is accelerating the shift away from US-led dominance

Philip Pilkington

Madeleine Albright epitomised the liberal era that is over The globalised world that defined her project in the 1990s is no more

Kamala Harris: the Vice-President nobody wanted Even Joe Biden is struggling to defend his choice

Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin’s war rescue liberalism? The Stanford Professor explains how the invasion could revitalise the West

Wednesday, March 23

Rishi Sunak could have helped the poor — but didn’t We face a cost of living emergency that will hit the poorest hardest

The Covid-cautious are hungriest for war There's a strong correlation between a fear of Covid and a desire for open conflict

Mary Harrington

Elvira Nabiullina: the Kremlin official still beloved by the West Many still hold Russia's central bank governor in high regard

Maximilian Hess

Tuesday, March 22

Why Israel won’t join anti-Russia sanctions It has security concerns on its border with Russia-backed Syria

Éric Zemmour can’t blame Putin for his slump The populist candidate is now in fifth place

Why women fear cancel culture more than men A recent NYT poll reveals a stark gender divide on self-censorship

Putin’s invasion has thrown Erdogan a lifeline Turkey has been welcomed back into the Western fold

Monday, March 21

Bill Roggio: Who is really winning the war in Ukraine? The analyst tells Freddie Sayers that the media is giving a misleading picture

Conservatives should amend the Equality Act — not repeal it A small amount of legal tweaking can tame the Blob

James McSweeney

Should we envy China’s army of billionaires? The country now has more than America and India combined

Germany lifts Covid restrictions — and people aren’t happy Germans are anxious about their sudden freedom

Now is not the time to start an economic war with China A group of US Senators are pushing a scheme that would end in disaster

Philip Pilkington

Friday, March 18

Is the New York Times headed back to the centre? A new tone at the paper hints at a broader change

Park MacDougald

Eastern Europeans are getting hawkish on Ukraine Citizens are pushing their leaders to stand up to Russia's aggression

William Nattrass

How Andrew Cuomo can win His re-election as Governor of New York may not be as farfetched as it seems

Boris can’t ignore the culture wars forever The PM has a plan to deal with racial inequality — but will he go through with it?