Bernie Sanders: Democrats are a threat to democracy

Gary Lineker exit has exposed BBC’s double standards Corporation rules around political views are deeply muddled

Fertility clinic bombing heralds weird new era of terrorism Internet subcultures are teetering into real-world violence

Mary Harrington

My night with Romania’s defeated populists George Simion’s loss has not ended the country’s populist groundswell

Trump should not demand a ceasefire in Putin call Russia has no incentive to concede while it is winning on the battlefield

Jennifer Kavanagh

Donald Tusk is powerless to stop Poland’s Right-wing wave

Sunday

18.05

Moody’s US credit rating downgrade has spooked investors Is Trump taking the budget deficit seriously enough?

New report exposes fallacy of UK Net Zero target Economic growth is being stifled by high energy prices

Labour’s foreign aid cuts are long overdue Why didn’t the Tories reduce Britain’s bloated overseas development programme?

Saturday

17.05

China threatens Scott Bessent’s economic rebalancing act

Wolfgang Munchau

Can Germany really build the strongest army in Europe? Friedrich Merz’s agenda is fraught with obstacles

Labour is panicking over deportation hubs Rebuffed by Albania, Keir Starmer is having to look elsewhere for ‘third countries’

Friday

16.05

Harvard is preparing to outlast Trump’s war on DEI The university is finding ways to evade the President's executive orders

Grok’s ‘white genocide’ glitch: a cautionary tale for AI’s future

Is the NHS caving to pressure over trans clinic age limits? Activists continue to resist the Cass Review

Istanbul Ukraine talks are for show, not peace Putin and Zelensky’s non-attendance has rendered these negotiations pointless

Bethany Elliott

Do Labour MPs really support Starmer’s immigration crackdown? They are torn between their convictions and the Reform threat

Thursday

15.05

Top Democrats distance themselves from progressive past

Michael Baharaeen

Assisted dying bill is crumbling under late amendments

Andrew Norfolk: a rare hero in the grooming gangs story A dogged journalist, he brought wider attention to awful crimes

Blue-state housing crisis is costing Democrats voters Americans are fleeing coastal cities for Republican strongholds

Are we over-medicalising neurodivergence? ‘Face blindness’ should not fall into the same category as autism

Kristina Murkett

Wednesday

14.05

David Hogg saga exposes fecklessness of Democrats The party is trying to evade any internal criticism

Pope Leo XIV: the holy critic of artificial intelligence

Trump’s Middle East tour seals end of Opec After years of dependence, America is charting a new course on energy

Ralph Schoellhammer

Pfizergate ruling increases pressure on Ursula von der Leyen The European Commission President has lost her transparency battle with the NYT

Scotland’s assisted dying vote guarantees nothing Disability campaigners are still putting up a fight to oppose the bill

Tuesday

13.05

Jake Tapper is wrong: Biden was declining long before 2024

Emily Jashinsky

Ruben Gallego launches centrist challenge inside Democratic Party The Arizona Senator has bucked the party line on immigration and other issues

Why is Josh Hawley the only Republican defending Medicaid? He is cementing his status as the GOP’s most authentic populist

Edinburgh University’s accent bias training won’t work Are Scottish students really the victims of discrimination?

Iain Macwhirter

The NEU has abandoned women — and the law Britain’s largest teaching union is defying the Supreme Court's gender ruling

Josephine Bartosch

Labour’s grip on London weakens as Reform UK surges

Monday

12.05

A Putin-Zelensky meeting is long overdue It is childish for world leaders not to talk to each other directly

Starmer’s immigration plan is a poor Farage tribute act Labour voters will not be convinced by crackdowns on foreign workers

Why is the police investigating ‘thought crime’ tweets? British officers have lost sight of their core mission

China tariffs deal could backfire on Trump

Jennifer Kavanagh

Government-backed data bill opens door to gender self-ID An officially sanctioned app may let people choose their own sex

Sunday

11.05

Labour and Tories are losing the immigration argument

Tariffs alone won’t save US pharma American supply chains remain heavily dependent on China

Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski

Stephen Miller’s dangerous plan to suspend habeas corpus It would undermine centuries of Anglo-American jurisprudence

Where are Britain’s Left-wing protectionists? Labour has fallen pretty to neoliberal orthodoxy

Richard Johnson

Saturday

10.05

Trump may recognise a Palestinian state The US President is reportedly frustrated with Benjamin Netanyahu

Is the EU basing policy on flawed sexual assault data?

Can Nigel Farage’s deportation plan succeed? The Reform leader must avoid a referendum sideshow

Friday

09.05

Trump’s trans military ban goes too far

Lisa Selin Davis

Trump should not shy away from taxing the rich MAGA voters want a truly populist agenda

The EU will suffer in any US trade deal The Anglo-American trade agreement won't be easy for Brussels to follow

Wolfgang Munchau

Tesla has bigger worries than boycotts

Is the UK-US deal a blip in the global trade war? Other countries may struggle to repeat Starmer's modest achievement

Pope Leo XIV heralds a renewal of Catholic social justice He is a universal pastor who is in love with the Leonine tradition

Thursday

08.05

Trump is losing ground — and still beating Democrats The party is failing to capitalise on the President's waning approval

Michael Baharaeen

Xi-Putin meeting complicates Trump’s ‘Reverse Nixon’ strategy Separating the two powers may now be impossible

Bethany Elliott

Times Square statue is a relic of the BLM era

India strikes are dividing Nato Western nations are torn over how to address the South Asian conflict

French Left is paving the way for a Bardella presidency

Wednesday

07.05

Are Republicans about to cave on Medicaid? A drafted GOP budget proposal includes cuts to the programme

Emily Jashinsky

Maurice Glasman: Labour is facing Tory-style destruction The peer today cautioned against his party's adoption of progressive liberalism

Biden’s BBC interview: an outdated vision of US power His latest condemnation of Trump is rooted in an obsolete Cold War mentality

Mr Beast’s new book will turn literature into clickbait

Labour is heading for a new civil war MPs are fighting over the meaning of last week’s results

Why is Keir Starmer giving tax breaks to Indian workers? A new bilateral trade deal will hurt the UK labour market

Tuesday

06.05

Mark Carney passes first Trump test The Canadian PM performed well at the White House, but trouble lies ahead

Sending more Patriot systems to Ukraine won’t deter Putin

Jennifer Kavanagh

Friedrich Merz is already a lame duck A divided Bundestag will not play to the Chancellor’s advantage

Ralph Schoellhammer

Artists afraid to speak freely, report finds A new organisation has recorded a widespread chilling effect in the culture sector

Is Israel about to take permanent control of Gaza? Netanyahu’s latest planned offensive could be the most significant yet

The UK gig economy is an illegal immigrant hotspot

Monday

05.05

Trump’s film tariffs will backfire on Hollywood He is undercutting a key source of American soft power

Chinese influence is leaving California dangerously exposed

Mental Health Awareness Month: a progressive vanity project Twee campaigns neglect those who most need help

Carolyn D. Gorman

Lucy Powell’s grooming gangs dismissal shames Labour A commitment to multiculturalism is warping the Left’s moral compass

Mary Harrington

Scotland’s assisted dying bill is a warning for Westminster

Sunday

04.05

CIA’s China recruitment videos are a gift to Xi Jinping Efforts to tempt away CCP officials only harden Beijing’s view of an existential clash

William Matthews

Trump isn’t to blame for Australian Liberals’ defeat Peter Dutton led an ineffectual campaign against a weak government

Meta’s AI ‘friends’ will exacerbate loneliness

Kristina Murkett

Europe is still addicted to Russian fertiliser New figures reveal the hollowness of sanctions

Jack Smith and Susanne Munschenk

Saturday

03.05

Why has Scotland abandoned its misogyny law? Last month's Supreme Court judgment has forced the SNP’s hand

Albanese win can’t hide Australia’s anti-establishment turn Today's election marked a record-low combined vote share for the two main parties

Reform UK pact may now be the Tories’ best hope

Has America made peace in Ukraine impossible? US withdrawal from negotiations leaves two irreconcilable sides

Bethany Elliott

‘Extremism’ label will only help the AfD Germany's intelligence agency has made a nakedly political classification