'A serious immediate prospect of another superpower replacing America, as with Suez, is not on the cards.' Credit: Getty.
9 Apr 2026 - 5:00pm

Iran is not Trump’s Suez Crisis America’s status as the global hegemon remains largely intact

Richard Vinen

09.04
'We are lost to infinite self-referentiality, and originality has made way for universally palatable profitmakers.' Credit: Eddie Dalton/YouTube.

The music industry was a slop factory long before Eddie Dalton

Lias Saoudi

09.04

Democrats are still falling into Trump’s trap on trans issues Turning gender into a moral test is a losing position

Ben Appel

09.04

Reform UK reveals hollowness of slavery reparations claims Britain is needlessly apologetic in the face of Commonwealth bullying

Michael Murphy

Wednesday, 8 April

08.04

Kanye West ban highlights the perils of state morality Was liberal neutrality always an illusion?

Jide Ehizele

08.04
Iranians respond to this week’s ceasefire announcement. Credit: Getty

Iran ceasefire won’t erase months of market turmoil

John Rapley

08.04

Polymarket and Kalshi: the new gods of the attention economy Infiltration of prediction markets into everyday life must be resisted

Ryan Zickgraf

08.04

Labour’s knife crime plan is an empty PR stunt Shiny new tech obscures a failure to tackle root causes

David Matthews

08.04
When it all falls down. Credit: Getty

Kanye West visa ban sets a dangerous precedent

Sarah McLaughlin

Tuesday, 7 April

07.04

Trump and Crassus share a fatal misunderstanding of Iranian civilisation The President is doomed to repeat the same mistake as the Roman general

Antonio de Loera-Brust

07.04

Fatherlessness is fuelling Britain’s masculinity crisis Research on the absence of male role models casts a worrying light on family life

Stella O'Malley

07.04

Anthropic’s new AI model could lead to White House reconciliation Another Manhattan Project may be emerging

Gavin Haynes

07.04

Kemi Badenoch is in denial about broken Britain Admitting the problem — and her party’s responsibility — is a necessary first step

Peter Franklin

07.04
The EU's queen of bureaucracy. Credit: Getty

Fuel rationing is a symptom of the EU’s energy naivety

William Nattrass

Monday, 6 April

06.04

Bluesky is already running out of steam The platform is struggling to retain users

Oliver Bateman

06.04

Releasing 12,000 shoplifters shows limits of progressive policing Labour’s soft touch on law and order is already backfiring

Dominic Adler

06.04

Sarah Mullally gives British Christians reason for pride The Archbishop of Canterbury’s first Easter sermon was a pleasant surprise

Niall Gooch

Sunday, 5 April

05.04

Sectarians are exploiting Britain’s fractured society Mawkish invocations of ‘unity’ are no longer enough to combat the threat

Ralph Leonard

05.04

The world no longer needs a reserve currency Economic power is moving away from America

Charles Gave

05.04
AI chatbots aren't nudging people towards the centre. Credit Getty

The FT’s AI optimism rests on shaky science

James Rosen-Birch

Saturday, 4 April

04.04

I have watched Antifa grow more extreme A multinational summit aimed at combatting the group is long overdue

Richie McGinniss

04.04

Downed fighter jets over Iran mark a dangerous turning point What began as a show of strength is rapidly becoming a lesson in overreach

Christopher McCallion

04.04

Your Party has been cannibalised by the Greens Corbyn’s outfit is fielding a reduced slate of candidates in May’s local elections

Jonny Ball

Friday, 3 April

03.04
Rocket man. Credit: Getty

Is SpaceX’s IPO just a hype bubble?

Alys Key

03.04

ITV’s transgender Elizabeth I: a strangely reactionary revisionism ‘Majesty’ arrives with the promise of provocation — but it does not deliver

Pratinav Anil

03.04

Farage’s triple lock decision will condemn the Right to irrelevance Reform UK is destined to make the same mistakes as the Tories

Peter Franklin

03.04

A food inflation crisis is coming Labour needs a plan to support farmers during the Iran war

Andrew O'Brien

Thursday, 2 April

02.04

Pam Bondi was never going to survive in Trump’s DOJ She failed to advance the President’s interests

Tom Rogan

02.04
Nancy Pelosi's term runs out in less than a year. Credit: Getty

Race to replace Nancy Pelosi tests limits of liberal Zionism

William Liang

02.04

Cosmeticorexia is a symptom of social media replacing play Companies are marketing skincare products to worryingly young audiences

Kristina Murkett

02.04

Has Alex Preston AI saga killed the literary critic? The writer’s use of chatbots shows how vapid book reviews have become

Cosmo Adair

02.04
Large gatherings of young people have engaged in shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in south London this week. Credit: Getty

Clapham chaos shows the reality of two-tier policing

Chris Bayliss