Jean Baudrillard in France, 1990. Credit: Getty

03/01/2022 - 7:00am

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

Monday, February 28

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, February 26

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

William Nattrass

Friday, February 25

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, February 24

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, February 23

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, February 22

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, February 21

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, February 18

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'