02/17/2022 - 7:00am

The West is facing an unprecedented rent crisis Property prices and rental values are skyrocketing

Wednesday, February 16

Unions are failing women The NEU is the latest to bow to trans activists

Josephine Bartosch

P.J. O’Rourke: a brilliant satirist undone by the Trump era His writing lost its sting when the MAGA crowd arrived

Wanted in Turkmenistan: a dull dictator The country has endured two attention-seeking narcissists, but that could change

Trudeau’s state of emergency is all about the money Civil liberties were suspended to protect foreign investment

Finally, Olaf Scholz shows some backbone with Russia The German Chancellor's summit with Vladimir Putin was his most assured yet

Tuesday, February 15

Louis Gave: What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines The financial markets have been underwhelmed by the data

Another effect of lockdown: childhood obesity New data shows a major uptick in severely obese children

Kristina Murkett

A misinformation ‘investigation’ reignites the censorship machine A Times story on YouTube 'cashing in' on anti-vaxxers is an invitation to censors

RIP to the Zero Covid ideology Only China now clings to the dream of a Covid-free world

5 million French citizens become ‘unvaccinated’ overnight The unboosted are now excluded from bars, cinemas and other public venues

Glenn Loury: Reject race politics and embrace humanity Freddie Sayers spoke to the economist about race relations in America

Monday, February 14

Joe Biden’s Ukraine strategy is confusing the markets Publicising intel that later proves to be incorrect could undermine credibility

Philip Pilkington

It’s time for Stormont to collapse The current crisis could give Westminster a chance to implement reform

In Spain, the Right-wing edges closer to power Vox made significant gains in yesterday's regional election

Anne Applebaum swaps foreign policy for fan-fiction The Atlantic columnist's advice to Liz Truss bordered on the surreal

Mary Harrington

Friday, February 11

It’s time for Joe Biden to recognise the Taliban Without US aid, the country will implode

The Ottawa ‘Freedom Convoy’ comes to France Protestors unhappy with vaccine passports are descending on Paris

Goodbye Cressida Dick — and good riddance She was the first woman to lead the Met, but her mistakes were catastrophic

Nicolas Sarkozy plays coy in French election campaign The former French president has refused to endorse Valerie Pécresse

The World Economic Forum has lost the plot From cold showers to animal inequality, the WEF is putting out weird content

Thursday, February 10

Ottawa trucker: Why we’re not going anywhere Freddie Sayers investigates the Canadian anti-mandate movement

Fact-checkers wrongly label ‘crack pipe’ story false After a signal from the Biden administration, the censorship machine kicked in

Park MacDougald

Ceramicist de-platformed for being a ‘SWERF’ Claudia Clare was disinvited from the Craft Potters Association due to her views on sex work

Peloton’s stock crash is just the beginning No company better symbolised the market bubble that we're in

Chinese CCTV is coming to to a town near you AI-powered cameras from the East are popping up across the country

Wednesday, February 9

Teen girls are struggling with male attention on TikTok The video platform is complicating the relationship between users and creators

NHS England deletes misleading Covid stats video It removed a video claiming 1% of children with Covid are hospitalised

Is Russell Brand the British Joe Rogan? The British comedian is politically difficult to box — and that's why he has enemies

The hole in Sajid Javid’s NHS masterplan It all comes down to the workforce — why don't health secretaries ever see that?

The German Chancellor won’t say the words ‘Nord Stream 2’ Olaf Scholz refuses to commit to sanctioning Russia

Tuesday, February 8

MSNBC tries to sanitise a civil rights hero The network was wrong to portray Bayard Rustin as a progressive