Hong Kong pays a heavy price for Zero Covid approach The city-state is suffering from the highest Covid death rate in the world

Is the US prepared for a United States of Eurasia? War always creates power vacuums — the West must fill them

Russophobia is sweeping through central Europe The Czech Republic is treating Russians like second-class citizens

William Nattrass

As anti-Semitism rises in New York, prosecutors fail to act The NYPD made an arrest in just one in five anti-Semitic hate crimes

Charles Fain Lehman

Thursday

10.03

Investigating Aleksandr Dugin and the “soul of Russia” Freddie Sayers speaks to Marlene Laruelle about the far-Right philosopher and Putin's endgame

Ukraine’s bloody spring will gift the world a hungry winter An impending wheat crisis could push millions into starvation

The inside story on Putin’s decision to invade A Russian journalist provides key insights into events running up to the invasion

Putin blows up his own currency The ruble's value has fallen by 40% since Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Wednesday

09.03

Sorry Sheryl Sandberg, but women do go to war Meta's COO made a bizarre claim on International Women's Day

Katherine Bayford

Oil and gas sanctions hurt the West more than Russia A rise in price benefits the producer, not the consumer

Philip Pilkington

Welcome to the Bitcoin golden era The Russian invasion of Ukraine has accelerated a shift towards crypto

First Germany, now Japan leaves pacifism behind The Ukraine crisis has shattered the country's pacifist consensus

John Bercow was not just a bully, but a failure too His was arguably the worst Speakership in history

Tuesday

08.03

International Women’s Day: contrived, commercialised and cynical Companies have outdone themselves

Kristina Murkett

Leonid Ragozin: How I got Russia wrong The Russian journalist tells Freddie Sayers why he no longer recognises his homeland

The Ukraine crisis is dividing the Balkans Serbia is struggling to maintain a balancing act between East and West

New Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines The real-world trial in New York yielded disappointing results

Jay Bhattacharya

America’s worst kept secret The Supreme Court is shielding the CIA over a widely reported issue

Monday

07.03

Sanctions will push Russia onto the dark web A major state actor could now legalise internet piracy and hacking

Philip Pilkington

Africa’s food crisis pre-dates the war in Ukraine Revisionists are already trying to erase the impact of Covid policy on the continent

Gerhard Schröder’s legacy will be forever tainted The ex-Chancellor's position on Russia is indefensible

Europe is still bankrolling Russia The market value of gas exported from Russia to the EU is going up

Friday

04.03

Russian sanctions bring Kazakhstan to the brink On top of existing tensions and police brutality, my country may not survive

Emmanuel Macron’s party is filled with odd-balls and misfits En Marche has many colourful characters

Banning RT is a Soviet — not western — tactic Free speech and access to information gives Europe a competitive advantage

Jacob Mchangama

Is this the end of the G20? The international club has already ceased to function

Thursday

03.03

Why India abstained on UN resolution over Ukraine Ties between the two countries go back to the Cold War

Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act won’t help trans people Today's bill is as bad as feared

Is Ukraine breaking the Geneva Convention? Publishing videos of Russian soldiers for propaganda purposes may be a breach

How the Ukraine war took over TikTok Slav-centric content was filling the video platform long before Putin's invasion

Companies race to remove any mention of Russia From cancelled meerkats to a vodka ban, home-made sanctions are everywhere

Nicholas Harris

Wednesday

02.03

Is the Russian war machine broken? Freddie Sayers asks RUSI analyst Justin Bronk why the Russian airforce is still grounded

Whatever happens in Ukraine, China will emerge the victor The crisis has accelerated the shift of power from Washington to Beijing

Marshall Auerback

The mystery of Paris’s missing Voltaire statue The explanations for the absence are becoming increasingly bizarre

In his first State of the Union, Biden punches left The President made clear overtures to the centre ground

Park MacDougald

Banning Russia Today sets a dangerous precedent It's rarely a good sign when Big Tech and Western leaders agree

Tuesday

01.03

Andreas Umland: The real nuclear threat is not from weapons Could clashes around nuclear reactors in Ukraine end in another Chernobyl?

Why Ukraine should not join the EU Accession would only further destabilise the bloc

William Nattrass

In Ireland, it’s progressives who have the real power Working in the shadows, they are using NGOs to protect elite consensus

Conor Fitzgerald

The war in Ukraine: is it really taking place? Jean Baudrillard's analysis of the 'virtual' Gulf War is more relevant than ever

Monday

28.02

Banning Russia from SWIFT will hurt the West The sanction will only push Putin into the arms of China

Philip Pilkington

Why the West cares more about Ukraine Our shared cultural identity is a legitimate factor

Meanwhile, the UK grabs new anti-protest powers Today's Police Bill debate looks set to allow the Government to forcibly evacuate protestors

Every company is now a weapon of war The longstanding myth of neutral commerce was killed off this weekend

Mary Harrington

For some Tory MPs, the stakes aren’t high enough There's ongoing talk of a no-fly zone and even launching missiles at Russia

Saturday

26.02

Europe faces a dilemma over the Ukrainian refugee crisis So far only eastern European countries have pledged their support

William Nattrass

Friday

25.02

Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t chosen on merit alone The President announced his Supreme Court pick with no mention of some selection criteria

Park MacDougald

San Francisco parents: How we took back control of our schools Flo Read meets the mothers and fathers who led a historic school board recall

Ukraine does not need to be ‘de-Nazified’ The smear is an oft-cited part of Vladimir Putin’s playbook

The French Right still hasn’t found a winner Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse are all slumping

Konstantin Kisin: Did the alternative media get Ukraine wrong? Freddie Sayers talks to the YouTube host about biases in both directions

Why is Ukrainian State Twitter waging a meme war? The country's official account appears to be targeting a western audience

Watch out for the Covid to Ukraine expert pivot Members of the pandemic commentariat are trying to reinvent themselves

Thursday

24.02

Shock and despair at London’s Ukraine protest It was supposed to be a demonstration, but it looked like a vigil

Putin’s speech reveals a dangerous and distorted worldview This is no longer a man the West can do business with

Don’t blame the Ukraine crisis on NATO enlargement Historically, Russia has provoked European countries into joining

Parents are right to be terrified of the metaverse The platform is already being used by perverts and sexual predators

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

23.02

Another major slip-up at The New York Times The Trojan Horse Affair podcast is littered with errors and distortions

Ashley Rindsberg

Give Emmanuel Macron a break His attempts to win over Putin have been ridiculed — but at least he tried

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

The Ukraine crisis proves Bitcoin is not a safe haven The cryptocurrency has had a torrid time in 2022

Sanctions won’t hurt Russia They didn't work in 2014 — and they won't now

Philip Pilkington

Tuesday

22.02

Joe Biden is making the housing crisis worse His administration is squeezing Americans out of the property market

If they can identify Q, they can identify you… Forensic linguistics are chipping away at internet anonymity

Was Grace Lavery silenced by her own community? She pulled out of an UnHerd event after pressure from fellow trans activists

In defence of the Gatsby house Building a stately home is a constructive way for the rich to spend their money

Monday

21.02

Ignore the doomerists — we need to learn to live with Covid The outcry at the PM's decision has come from familiar quarters

I worry about the Finlandisation of America I see troubling parallels between my native country in the Seventies and America

Jukka Savolainen

Bill Gates wants you to eat artificial meat The green revolution is coming — for everyone except the billionaires

Mary Harrington

Shock poll rocks Spanish politics Vox is now the second most popular party in Spain

Friday

18.02

How the Charter of Rights let Canada down The document has reduced our definition of freedom to box ticking

The New York Times erases JK Rowling The Grey Lady wants readers to 'imagine Harry Potter without its Creator'

Virginia Woolf predicted her own cancellation The novelist is the latest addition to the 'racism list'

Rules for politics in the classroom don’t go far enough Nadhim Zahawi's attempt to reduce partisan teaching is full of holes

Apple is cheering on the new normal Endless health data won't help us move on from Covid

Timandra Harkness

Thursday

17.02

The ECJ ruling is a political attack on Hungary and Poland These countries are being targeted for their social conservatism — not corruption

William Nattrass

Dear EU leaders, Africa has bigger problems than Covid The relentless push to vaccinate the continent won't help Africans

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

The start of a counter-revolution in San Francisco The ousting of the city's woke school board is a sign of things to come

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

Wednesday

16.02

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