Former First Lady Michelle Obama flexes her muscles. Credit: Getty

11/16/2022 - 3:00pm

‘Michelle Obama arms’ have gone out of fashion The former First Lady is dialling back on her exercise regime

Kemi Badenoch: Beware the new authoritarians The politician warned that too many young people want to ban everything

Donald Trump launches his bid for president — as the underdog The ex-president spoke for an hour without mentioning Ron DeSantis

Jeff Bezos should be careful who he gives his money to Not all charitable donations end up in the right place

Tuesday, November 15

Why Joanne Harris must go The Society of Authors Chair has no interest in upholding freedom of speech

The New York Times pushes back against puberty blockers The resistance to trans ideology is well under way in America

The spectre haunting the Autumn Statement The Government is failing to address the extent of the energy crisis

Philip Pilkington

Central Europe re-arms in face of Russian threat Visegrád countries have committed to massively increased defence spending

William Nattrass

After Italy and Sweden, will Spain shift Right? If the country's conservative parties unite, they will be a serious electoral force

Jorge González-Gallarza

Monday, November 14

Today’s biggest political divide is over growth and tech The question of how to live within limits has paralysed both sides

Mary Harrington

The moral lesson from Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall The crypto meltdown shows us that we must be wary of unbridled altruism

Why shouldn’t young black people be Right-wing? A Channel 4 documentary fails to grasp why some minorities lean conservative

Inaya Folarin Iman

Blake Masters fails to conquer Arizona Peter Thiel’s protégé was the victim of a broader shift back to the centre

China abandons ‘one size fits all’ Covid policy There are echoes of the Great Barrington Declaration in Beijing's latest plans

Saturday, November 12

You’ll miss Elon Musk when he’s gone The new Twitter CEO isn't like other billionaires

Friday, November 11

Sweden is Ron DeSantis’s trump card The Florida Governor's Covid policy has been vindicated

Johan Anderberg

Will there be a ceasefire in Ukraine this winter? All sides are hinting at peace talks — but the obstacles may be too great

Is Tucker Carlson a “stochastic terrorist”? There's a fashionable new term in town, and it isn't helpful

The trouble with Rishi Sunak’s LNG deal The pact with the US on supply of natural gas isn't all it seems

Izabella Kaminska

Elon Musk is not a national security threat — TikTok is Joe Biden is focusing on the wrong social media giant

Kristina Murkett

Thursday, November 10

Right-wing populists need a new strategy Behaving grotesquely isn't enough

FTX won’t be the last crypto collapse The aborted bailout shows that no digital assets giant is safe

European autonomy remains a distant dream The continent is divided and more reliant than ever on outside powers

Ralph Schoellhammer

The Scottish Book Trust has given up on free speech Writers' organisations are betraying the people they're meant to represent

Wednesday, November 9

Ron DeSantis: the new champion of Trumpism The Florida Governor has found a winning formula

Batya Ungar-Sargon

The ‘Dump Trump’ movement has officially begun Republicans are growing sick of their former leader

Ashley Rindsberg

Yoram Hazony: The case for national conservatism in the UK The Israeli thinker makes his case for bringing the movement to the UK

Panda La Terriere

Why I feel sorry for Just Stop Oil activists Their pain has emerged from a religious vacuum

Blame weak candidates for G.O.P.’s loss of Pennsylvania Republicans squandered a good opportunity to win

The ‘end of democracy’ waits for another year The Democrats' rhetoric may have turned the tide, but at what cost?

Florida was a Covid referendum All the major issues were downstream effects of the pandemic response

Marshall Auerback

Tuesday, November 8

Elon Musk needn’t worry about Twitter’s Left-wing rivals Mastodon and Tribel are poor imitations