Afghans board a plane for the UK in Kabul

09/23/2021 - 8:15am

Reasons to be optimistic about Afghan integration We have learnt a lot from our European neighbours' mistakes

Wednesday, September 22

Sorry, the energy crisis has nothing to do with Brexit or hippies Ideologues are projecting their own biases

Ken Burns: America is in a pre-civil war condition Few know American history as well as the documentary maker

TikTok’s voyeuristic probe into Gabby Petito’s disappearance Social media sleuths may be hindering the case more than helping

Kristina Murkett

In Germany, our energy crisis is far worse than yours Since the removal of nuclear energy, we don't have many options left

Report: politics is not tearing American families apart A new report suggests that fears of an incoming civil war may be overblown

Tuesday, September 21

Paul Kingsnorth is right: we’re in a spiritual crisis The West's consumerism has run amok

Elizabeth Oldfield

How grannies became the new frontline activists Octogenarians are getting themselves arrested — and it makes sense

Why wokeism won’t rule the world Tyler Cowen thinks it will be America's next great export — I disagree

The Ebola lockdown that everyone forgot It was trialled and failed in 2015

How the Lib Dems silenced debate on conversion therapy Dissenting arguments went missing at this weekend's conference

Monday, September 20

There will never be another Only Fools and Horses It was the last TV show collectively watched by the nation

Elites have lost faith in Enlightenment rationality Two new reports confirm that we are heading back to a medieval mentality

Mary Harrington

Evergrande could trigger a global economic crisis The real-estate bubble in China is reminiscent of 2008 — only worse

Will Fauci bypass the FDA ruling on booster jabs? In both the US and UK, leaders are sidelining their expert committees

How the Lib Dems can break the blue wall Focusing on ex-Tories, not a 'progressive alliance', is the right strategy

Friday, September 17

AUKUS is a risky bet on American hegemony How confident should Australia and the UK be that US dominance will last?

Bari Weiss: there are signs of sanity returning The writer tells Freddie Sayers why she is optimistic about the future

Tim Pool: 10 years on, Occupy activists have flipped They now champion causes that used to be associated with the Right

Sir Clive Sinclair: a visionary ahead of his time He didn't get everything right, but foresaw trends decades ahead

Dominic Sandbrook

The Theranos stories they don’t tell you about Outrageous fraud is common in the world of venture capital

The Merkel era was not Germany’s golden age A new poll finds that a plurality of Germans miss the old days

Thursday, September 16

The AUKUS pact is bad news for France Australia's new security partnership with the US and UK is a snub to Paris

Jonathon Kitson

Scrapping SATs will not reduce racial inequality The alternatives are even more biased

Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn A new app digitally superimposes women into videos — this is only the start

Wednesday, September 15

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government And, incidentally, I called it a year ago

Gavin Newsom wins, but California loses The Governor's victory papers over deep issues in the state

Record inflation? Blame Eat Out to Help Out The biggest contribution to the rise in CPI came from the hospitality sector

Norm Macdonald: the only comedian to survive Trump He managed to outlive the great death of comedy of the post-2016 era

Buying Bitcoin may backfire on the Taliban Its price is unpredictable from one day to the next

Tuesday, September 14

Tyler Cowen changes his mind on crypto The influential thinker says he is no longer a sceptic

The case against new Covid restrictions Cases are shrinking without them — exponential growth now seems impossible