'Creative' street art in Shoreditch, London. Credit: Getty

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Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative? Social liberals are not the luminaries they think they are...

Wednesday, July 8

Steven Pinker: They’re trying to cancel me Freddie Sayers chats to the Harvard Professor about his denunciation by the illiberal Left

Rishi Sunak sparks the economy into life An emergency stimulus is the electrical shock the UK needs

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has to do three big things in his summer statement today

Tuesday, July 7

English nationalism: the dog that is starting to bark Polling shows growing popular support for independence from the UK

In the Karen Wars, no woman is safe Never forget: veiled misogyny comes in many forms

Monday, July 6

Would you have sex with an alien? A clever quiz question exposes an important ideological divide

Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation My only child misses her friends — robots like Moxie are not the answer

Mary Harrington

Briefing: what are Kanye West’s politics? The rapper has tweeted that he is running for president

Friday, July 3

Younger people are getting Covid — why is that bad news? The Leicester spike offers the chance to see what the real effects are

Let’s put an end to macho cultural pessimism It has been a common feature of elite outlets for decades

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday, July 2

Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter Freddie Sayers chats to the Contributing Editor of City Journal about race relations in the US

I’m on the Oxford vaccine trial — here’s what it’s like For the next year, I'll be sticking a swab up my nose every week...

Dear Harry, maybe go back to ribbon-cutting? The prince’s conversion from a royal to the high priest of wokeness is nauseating

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks! Sizewell C is another white elephant from a dangerous foe

Wednesday, July 1

The BLM protests are the perfect Dionysiac moment The Greek god revelled in the primal wildness of the mob

Mary Harrington

It’s Germany’s EU now The new President of the EU Council has been in charge all along

How Keir Starmer can beat Boris His pro-flag, law and order approach is proving popular with the public

Tuesday, June 30

Interview: is Saudi Arabia making progress? Freddie Sayers speaks to Prince Khalid Bandar, Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to the UK

Should we decolonise Constantinople? The Hagia Sofia is now the 'Ayosofa' — a term used by the Ottoman Empire

Shouldn’t artists be worrying about Beauty instead of Politics? Today’s pop culture is reaching Victorian levels of moral righteousness

Joanna Rossiter

Digging up King David in the Israeli mountains Archaeologists are unearthing a very different account of Jewish history

Monday, June 29

France’s Green revolution Rising support for the environmentalists could hamper Macron's hopes for 2022

Liked tweets nearly cost me my university job The complaint was dropped, but others may not be so fortunate

Gove signals the end of the Left-Right divide The minister's latest speech was radical — but can he deliver it?

Friday, June 26

Stranded seafarers could trigger a national food crisis An under-reported Covid effect is threatening global supply chains

Mary Harrington

Welcome to the Age of Unreality June 2020 marks the end of a shared idea of truth

Thursday, June 25

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules Freddie Sayers speaks to Peter Borg-Neal, CEO of a 28-strong pub group

It’s official: Labour is no longer the party of the poor British politics really has turned upside down...

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea The author's flawed concept of psychohistory has real world examples

Wednesday, June 24

US journalists are fanning racial tensions In trying to solve one social evil, something more dangerous could emerge

The Age of Excuses is over Covid has shown how quickly an economy can transform — let's re-structure it