Destigmatisation has its downsides. Credit: Getty

December 18, 2025

Scotland is making a dangerous bet on medical cannabis

Iain Macwhirter

Looser EV rules reveal cracks in Europe’s green strategy Plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars have been softened

Wednesday

17.12

Why does Trump World keep speaking with liberal journalists? White House cooperation with unfriendly media has repeatedly backfired

Emily Jashinsky

Is country-club Republicanism dying? A new survey reveals GOP reliance on more liberal ex-Democrats

For Labour, the Chagossians aren’t the right kind of victims. Credit: Getty

Chagossians will not be silenced by Western guilt

Norman Podhoretz’s universalism is an antidote to our identity politics The late writer foresaw America’s modern-day internal strife

UK youth unemployment is nearing crisis point One in seven young people are not in work

Is Kemi Badenoch really pulling Tories back from the brink? Conservative electoral decline is demographically predestined

Tuesday

16.12

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression cited 'an uptick in attempts by the political right to silence speech in 2025'. Credit: Getty

US college censorship hits record high in 2025

Susie Wiles: Trump believes Putin wants all of Ukraine A new report has revealed a stark assessment of the Russian leader’s ambitions

Defending FGM sanitises abuse of women British academics are making excuses for an abhorrent practice

Josephine Bartosch

Britain can’t afford to fall behind in what may prove to be the next industrial revolution. Credit: Getty

The British case for data centres

If a coup doesn’t fell Starmer, next year’s elections will Talk of regicide is reaching fever pitch but no replacement is likely to do any better

David Littlefair

Monday

15.12

New hate speech bill reflects Canada’s widening sectarian divisions The country must be more than the sum of its persecution complexes

Rob Reiner’s liberal optimism shaped a generation of cinema His films had a moral centre but didn’t preach

‘It was always building towards something as awful as Bondi.’ Credit: Getty

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

The dark side of the global surrogacy market Chinese billionaires are procuring armies of children with US passports

Mary Harrington

Zelensky’s Nato concession is an admission of reality The promise of membership was never credible

Bethany Elliott

Stripping Net Zero powers won’t solve London’s housing crisis Labour is falling well short of what's required

Sunday

14.12

John Cena’s retirement spells end of apolitical American life He was a bridge to a time before hyper-partisanship

Australian Jews have been sounding the alarm for years. Credit: Getty

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Limor Simhony Philpott

Why have half of secondary school pupils been off with anxiety? We are rewarding self-limiting behaviours

Kristina Murkett

Saturday

13.12

Losing dive bars will crush neighbourhood life No rooftop lounge or cocktail bar can replicate these defining third spaces

The Secretary General is wrong to scaremonger. Credit: Getty

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other? Alarmist coverage is running ahead of the evidence

Friday

12.12

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK Mass immigration has prompted a rethink

Samuel Rubinstein

Great British Railways rebrand is hollow nostalgia Our train system should be a source of national pride, not an embarrassment

'The Pathways trial is the institutional repetition of a mistake we already made.' Credit: Getty

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses Leaked US documents prove that Brussels has no plan for peace or war

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday

11.12

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit? Maduro’s fall may be imminent, but a vacuum will be far more dangerous