Boris Johnson in the Commons today

01/31/2022 - 6:04pm

Sue Gray’s report is good news for Boris… so far There have been no new revelations about Partygate

Denmark’s state modeller: why we’ve ended all Covid laws Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr Camilla Holten-Møller about her country's bold decision

Grading the French Left: less than adequate The highly touted popular primary failed to unify Left-wingers

Across Europe, Right-wing populists are back Hard-Right parties made significant gains in Portugal and the Netherlands

Joe Rogan is bigger than Spotify The streaming giant is right to stand by its star podcaster

Saturday, January 29

The Edge of Europe: On patrol at the Poland-Belarus border Aris Roussinos joins the Polish army to investigate the migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border

Friday, January 28

Why do women on OnlyFans pretend to be girls? Users are editing their faces to appear younger

The UK economy’s superpower: creating jobs Unlike the rest of Europe and America, labour participation keeps going up

Why I’d choose Boris over Nicola Sturgeon Give me a mendacious Lord of Misrule over a technocratic tyrant

Mary Harrington

Italy’s special relationship with Vladimir Putin Italian business leaders met the Russian president this week

Maurizio Vezzosi

Thursday, January 27

There will never be another Barry Cryer His style of comedy has been erased from British television

Why Scotland and Wales are silent on Ukraine The UK is facing major foreign policy crisis, but the first ministers aren't intervening

BMJ fights back against Facebook fact-checkers The medical journal was censored for 'misinformation' by the tech giant

Why regulation of Bitcoin still won’t happen Elites are now too invested to act against crypto

Wednesday, January 26

Kate Clanchy: my life’s work has been taken away The writer speaks to Freddie Sayers about teaching, writing, and cancel culture

Poll: Trump to beat Biden by 6 points in 2024 The former President now has a clear lead over the Democrat

The UK mops up students from Zero Covid countries The pandemic has increased, not decreased, the number of foreign applications

Kristina Murkett

Japan’s new Covid crackdown is all about politics The ‘quasi state of emergency’ sounds dramatic, but it's anything but

Friedrich Merz takes Merkel’s old party to the Right The CDU's new leader wants to offer Germany a conservative option

Tuesday, January 25

Amnesty’s stance on prostitution is hurting women Decriminalising the purchase of sex will only help the industry grow

Elite universities should stop prizing victimhood Embroidering stories about hardship is easier for affluent candidates

War in Ukraine would provoke a new migrant crisis How will Eastern Europe respond to millions of Ukrainian refugees?

William Nattrass

The era of record company profits is coming to an end 2022 is looking set to be a very bearish year

Philip Pilkington

Monday, January 24

To witness the Covid divide, walk from Brooklyn to Queens Attitudes are no longer about red states or blue states — it's all down to class

Park MacDougald

It’s transfer season on the French hard Right Three politicians defect from Marine Le Pen to Éric Zemmour

What NHS workers told me at the mandate protest To cast them all as 'anti-vaxxers' misses the point

California Governor: my state is looking ‘third world’ Gavin Newsom is finally admitting there is a problem

Sunday, January 23

The countryside case for Veganuary Those of us who shoot and fish have much in common with vegans

Saturday, January 22

Canova’s Theseus get masked up in Vienna Austria's number one museum has fallen victim to hygiene theatre

Friday, January 21

What’s going on in Quebec? The French Canadian province has gone in an increasingly authoritarian direction

Anxiety: the hidden cause behind school absences Lockdown has had a detrimental impact on students' mental wellbeing

Kristina Murkett

Could Ukraine be today’s Schleswig-Holstein? Dominic Cummings has compared today's involvement to the 1864 Prussian invasion