‘In a topic so sensitive, definitions are critical.’ Credit: Getty

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Did trans suicides really spike after puberty blocker ban? Activists are spreading dangerously misleading claims

Josephine Bartosch

Public support for legalising the drug is decreasing. Credit: Getty

NYT’s turn on marijuana is a victory for public health

Are Wes Streeting’s leadership hopes dead? After the Mandelson scandal, members will be even more suspicious of him

Chatbot ‘friends’ are stunting children’s growth Reliance on technology can be confusing at such a formative age

Kristina Murkett

Tuesday

10.02

‘Which way do we go now?’ Credit: Getty

Silicon Valley is pivoting away from Trump

Abandoning Mars could be Elon Musk’s biggest mistake Building data centres on the Moon would be far too expensive

Church of England infighting is driving away worshippers Not all doctrines and traditions should be constantly up for discussion

Is it too late to save UK universities from Chinese interference? Beijing’s influence is already deeply entrenched

Luke de Pulford

Gender is a broad church. Credit: Getty

Olivia Colman joins the non-binary celebrity club

Monday

09.02

Anas Sarwar’s intervention hurts him more than Starmer Cracks are emerging between Labour and its Scottish wing

Iain Macwhirter

What Morgan McSweeney got right He understood populist concerns better than anyone in the Labour Party

David Littlefair

Isis, not Al-Qaeda, is the West’s greatest terror threat Intelligence points to a single network driving today’s most urgent security risks

Sunday

08.02

Sanae Takaichi’s historic victory plays to Trump’s advantage Japan’s Iron Lady’s gamble has paid off

The chief of staff's Blue Labour sympathies irked the party's Left. Credit: Getty

Morgan McSweeney’s exit may work in Starmer’s favour

Elijah Schaffer scandal reveals hollowness of trad movement Behind the talk of family and faith lies a culture of hypocrisy and grievance

Leader Alice Weidel has had hotel bookings cancelled on the campaign trail. Credit: Getty

Anti-AfD resistance is spreading beyond party politics

Saturday

07.02

Russian general shooting could derail Ukraine peace talks Moscow now has a ready-made pretext to step back from negotiations

Bethany Elliott

Britain has a fetish for military politicians Ex-soldier Al Carns is now an improbable contender for the Labour leadership

Friday

06.02

US funding for MAGA think tanks in Europe will backfire As well as being wasteful, the move will aggravate allies

'Labour has no perfect candidate to replace a thoroughly imperfect PM.' Credit: Getty.

Labour leadership hopefuls are tainted by Starmer’s failures

Kamala Harris’s ‘Headquarters’ is a digital vanity project KamalaHQ’s relaunch repeats every mistake that cost Democrats young voters in 2024

Bitcoin crash is first sign of a market death spiral A weak jobs market coupled with hot inflation could lead to stagflation

UK ‘supermax’ prisons are a white flag to violent offenders US-style units are an admission of defeat on de-radicalisation

Thursday

05.02

'It may not matter who is on the ticket in 2028.' Credit: Getty.

The return of yellow dog Democrats

Europe’s censorship dispute could shatter US alliance A Congressional report has exposed attempts to restrict free speech

Wolfgang Munchau

Palestine Action verdict is not two-tier justice Hung juries don’t mean that suspects have been let off

Labour MPs are diluting the meaning of citizenship New Government reforms expose the holes in the Left’s post-nationalism

Wednesday

04.02

'The main source of scepticism about the renminbi is political, not technical.' Credit: Getty.

China won’t end dollar hegemony

Mandelson scandal exposes rotten core of peerage system There are few checks in place to penalise bad behaviour

Samuel Rubinstein

Elon Musk’s SpaceX bet is a costly mistake His $1.25 trillion merger is looking to put data centres in space

Andrew Orlowski

Are UK high streets beyond saving? A new cash injection fails to tackle the root causes of Britain’s malaise

No easy way out. Credit: Getty

Peter Mandelson puts the Met Police in an impossible position