Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest.

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Viktor Orban vs the Pope: rival strains of Christian thought Supporters of both worldviews can point to strong theological backing

Joe Biden declares ‘War on Covid’ Like Bush's War on Terror, this conflict is open-ended and a potential disaster

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday, September 13

Asset strippers are coming for your supermarket Private equity buyers are burdening companies with huge debts

KPMG enters the diversity minefield The firm wants more working class staff, but can't define who they are

Kristina Murkett

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage Using the tennis star for political point scoring obscures her background

Did Ayn Rand defeat vaccine passports? Sajid Javid is known to be a fan of the individualist philosopher

Mary Harrington

At last — a system to make flying guilt free Thanks to new technology climate apocalypse doesn't have to be our future

Saturday, September 11

9/11 responders gave me faith in the masculine ideal As a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan, I saw it for myself

Friday, September 10

Why Britain is uniquely vulnerable to a new wave of terrorism Deep links with Pakistan will open the door to terrorists

Priti Patel is playing a dangerous game with France Britain risks losing its favourable arrangements with France on migrants

Modest fashion is making a comeback Consumers are growing bored of BDSM chokers and embracing the 'granny style'

Mary Harrington

The myth of Blue Labour Boris Economically and socially, the Prime Minister remains an instinctive libertarian

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters The party is economically liberal, but the people who vote for them are not

Thursday, September 9

Curtis Yarvin schools Tucker in ‘neoreaction’ The Right-wing blogger joined the Fox News host to discuss his theories of power

Denmark is paying the UK to take their Afghan refugees An undisclosed sum was paid to Britain to accept 23 interpreters

Will the Amish take over America? Historically persecuted religious sects are winning the demographic war

The cynicism behind El Salvador’s Bitcoin decision The people don't want it, but that won't stop the currency's cheerleaders

Wednesday, September 8

Bill Gates finally realises that lockdown hurts children A major advocate for social distancing is having second thoughts

No Judith Butler, gender-critical feminists aren’t ‘fascists’ The academic can't frame everything as a Right-wing transphobic attack

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher Sanae Takaichi could become Japan's first female PM

What has Bernie Sanders actually accomplished? The Senator turns 80 today — his most enduring legacy may be his failures

Tuesday, September 7

Is Justin Trudeau going the way of Theresa May? The Canadian PM's cynical election call looks like it is backfiring

Marshall Auerback

Michael K. Williams was an antidote to today’s identity politics His portrayal of Omar Little in The Wire defied stereotypes

Kristina Murkett

Social care is a constitutional row waiting to happen A UK-wide tax hike to pay for social care in England will anger devocrats

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong! Silicon Valley is investing in life-extending technology — should we worry?

Monday, September 6

Don’t listen to the progressives, Gavin Newsom If the governor wants to survive his recall, he should remember who his voters are

Why I’m not renewing my Irish passport Hilary Mantel may want to become European again, but I don't

The Government Censorship Unit you’ve never heard of The "Counter Disinformation Cell" is monitoring your online statements

Wooden homes: is it time to go back to the future? Beautiful, green and slow to age, this material is a British mainstay

Nicholas Boys Smith

Saturday, September 4

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

Friday, September 3

The right way to look at the Bangladesh mask study The evidence isn't conclusive, but then again it rarely is

The ACLU turns against free speech The once-vital group is being captured from within by hyper-partisan activists