Adam McKay: another satirist lost to activism His latest film's agenda is painfully obvious

Sunday

26.12

Boxing Day need not be an anti-climax The Feast of Stephen is just the beginning

Saturday

25.12

Why celebrating Christmas is the rational thing to do Cultures need myths to survive

Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday

24.12

Why do I spend so much time on TikTok? There's a reason I'm on the app for four hours a day

The world’s most powerful space telescope is finally launching After a 30-year wait, the James Webb Space Telescope is heading to space

Donald Trump is winning vaccine politics The former president is doubling down on his biggest achievement

The case against Liz Truss No one better reflects the vacuity of contemporary politics

Thursday

23.12

The glamour of Joan Didion The writer could make meaninglessness matter

Joe Manchin: the last blue dog Democrat The Virginia Senator no longer fits in today's Party

Marshall Auerback

Mark Drakeford’s nonsense Covid rules are back Yet again the Welsh leader is using the virus for political purposes

Jack Dorsey’s big idea for a crypto future The Twitter founder's vision could be paradise or hell on earth

Wednesday

22.12

Kyle Rittenhouse: the latest Right-wing celebrity The acquitted shooter joins a long line of accidental political pin-ups

Why South Africans are refusing the vaccine Brian Pottinger talks to Freddie Sayers about his country's response to Covid

Government: lockdowns hurt minority groups most A new report makes for grim reading

“Non-crime hate incidents” aren’t gone yet Thousands of false allegations will still be recorded on scant evidence

Tuesday

21.12

Hispanics are turning away from Joe Biden A new poll finds that 65% of Latinos disapprove of the President

Caroline Nokes is confused about gender self-ID It's necessary to know people's birth sex

No one should cheer Rachel Riley’s libel triumph Her victory could have a stifling effect

The trouble with Nadhim Zahawi’s ex-teacher army The Education Secretary's big idea sounds better than it is

Kristina Murkett

What the non-decision on lockdown means The political atmosphere has fundamentally shifted

Monday

20.12

Farewell to the ‘non-hate crime incident’ Harry Miller won an important victory

Richard Rogers’ most important work was not his architecture His commitment to traditional urbanism remained highly influential

Nicholas Boys Smith

SAGE’s doomsday predictions are damaging public trust Dramatic Covid models are increasingly greeted with cynicism

The CCP gets religious about Karl Marx The largest atheist organisation in the world has started using Godly language

Sunday

19.12

The Scout Association apologises to Maya Forstater over ‘misgendering’ Another victory for gender critical feminists

Friday

17.12

Only the Treasury can control Sturgeon and Drakeford Rishi Sunak's 'big bazooka' can ensure a unified policy response to Covid

Vox discovers Western esotericism — 100 years late The publication mistakes an ancient set of beliefs for something new

The Supreme Court rejects non-gendered passports A welcome judgement from the UK's highest court

Brexit can no longer save Boris The PM's defeat in Shropshire North shows that the UK has moved on from 2016

Alan Wager and Anand Menon

The Fed risks losing all credibility over inflation Jerome Powell faces the unenviable choice of a market crash or inflation

Philip Pilkington

Thursday

16.12

It’s time for the West to engage with the Taliban As a winter crisis looms, the Afghan people need our support more than ever

A superforecaster’s guide to the North Shropshire by-election The Tories have a much stronger chance than the bookies believe

Millions of adults can’t be boostered The aim of jabbing everyone by the new year has been doomed from the start

Cases of Covid fatigue reach an all time high New research shows that people are tuning out of the virus

Europe’s biggest economy is on the brink Germany's economic forecast is looking increasingly bleak

Wednesday

15.12

Billie Eilish tells us what we already know about porn The singer said that it destroyed her brain at a young age

Mary Harrington

Deep data dive: is Omicron the end of the pandemic? Pieter Streicher makes the case for cautious optimism in South Africa

Cummings was right about mavericks in Government A new report suggests recruitment in Westminster needs shaking up

Andrew Orlowski

We had rights before the Human Rights Act We can do without the 1998 Act — common law does a better job anyway

Tuesday

14.12

Is Ghislaine Maxwell winning? The prosecution is having a torrid time so far

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created Freddie Sayers spoke to Larry Sanger about why he left

Why trans activists can’t beat JK Rowling The author knows exactly when and how to intervene

Get ready for exams to be cancelled… again The return of teacher-assessed grades now looks inevitable

Kristina Murkett

Austin pays the price for defunding the police The city experienced a record number of murders this year

Monday

13.12

The Anglo-French fish war ends without victory A breakthrough in Brussels this weekend

Why I’m voting against Plan B Covid restrictions We must not normalise invasive and discriminatory restrictions

Emmanuel Macron pays Viktor Orbán a visit An unlikely alliance is forming between Paris and the central European state

Alexander Faludy

The NYT’s latest hit job backfires The paper's attack on a suicide forum ended up driving membership

Saturday

11.12

Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Donald Trump Freddie Sayers speaks to the columnist and commentator about the crisis in America

Friday

10.12

Don’t fret — Notre-Dame can survive a facelift A modern twist to the cathedral's interior can always be swept away again

Nicholas Boys Smith

Emmanuel Macron kickstarts his re-election campaign The president hopes that an optimistic message will serve as a counter to Zemmour's declinism

Feelings don’t care about your facts Sporting achievement is now secondary to more subjective considerations

Mary Harrington

The Japanification of the Eurozone ECB holdings of government debt are now very close to Japanese levels

Thursday

09.12

Joe Biden is turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants An extreme drop in deportations has coincided with a nationwide crimewave

New Zealand’s smoking ban will backfire Making it illegal to sell cigarettes to future generations will create a black market

Hispanic Americans are no longer ‘minority voters’ We are witnessing a generational shift in voting patterns among Latino voters

Elon Musk is right: declining birth rates are a threat to civilisation He may have cynical motives, but his point stands

Wednesday

08.12

The NFT bubble will burst The mania over digital tokens bears familiar hallmarks

Our grammar school system is broken Regional inequalities are hindering social mobility

Kristina Murkett

What drugs on TV tell us about media elites Their world is more removed from reality than ever

Has Omicron wrong-footed the Covid elites? The peak in Gauteng, South Africa, may come sooner than expected

Tuesday

07.12

Don’t make misogyny a hate crime The state should focus on violence against women — not hurt feelings

Bitcoin is more than a Wall Street plaything The cryptocurrency can offer freedom from surveillance and government control

How America’s progressive citadels became crime centres Left-wing policies have been a disaster in the US's most liberal cities

The Nowzad decision looks more absurd than ever Damning evidence shows that Farthing's dogs cost human lives

Night workers deserve to be seen Over three million employees do their jobs while the rest of us are asleep

Zemmour is just the beginning France is moving dramatically Rightwards — and it's time the Brits took notice

Monday

06.12

Parliament can — and should — override judges The UK legislature is, after all, the ultimate repository of sovereignty

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ death shows the dark side of lockdowns Domestic abuse skyrocketed when restrictions were in place

California mathematicians turn against woke curriculum A group of 500 teachers and scientists have objected to a politicised syllabus

Please stay out of Africa, Tony Blair This continent has bigger problems than Covid

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Bob Dole: the Republican Machiavelli The former Senate leader backed Trump when few others would

Why Bitcoin is tracking the stock market It has become dominated by speculative day traders

Philip Pilkington

Saturday

04.12

Kathleen Stock: I won’t be silenced The Sussex University professor resigned after an aggressive campaign of targeted harassment over her views.

Friday

03.12

Could France have its first female president next year? Valérie Pécresse may pose a bigger threat to Macron than Éric Zemmour

Labour can’t hide behind a ‘progressive alliance’ The Party is struggling to channel anti-government discontent

We are all turning into cyberpunks Debates over 'xenobots' and abortion are making it harder to know what is human

Mary Harrington

Don’t count on university alumni to protect free speech Some donors are applying pressure — but others are fighting back

Thursday

02.12

Inside Australia’s Covid internment camp Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention

Oxford City Council quietly passes radical trans motion An unchallenged bill on 'trans inclusivity' could threaten single-sex spaces

Oxford Feminist Union

The NHS Covid beds that were never used Managers wasted billions on buying capacity in private hospitals

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes for compulsory vaccination The EU has no power to implement, let alone enforce, such a policy