Reports sugget Zhipu AI has released a new model that can rival leading US systems. Credit: Getty

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China is threatening America in the AI race Its cheaper models could give Beijing an edge

Starmer’s Defense Investment Plan is a problem for the Right Neither Reform UK nor the Conservatives have an easy attack line

Tuesday, June 30

Democrats won’t learn from Supreme Court trans ruling Conservative Justices have upheld states’ rights to restrict women’s sport to biological females

Lisa Selin Davis

The Pope has received robust backing from some surprising corners of the Church. Credit: Getty

Risk of Catholic schism has rallied traditionalists behind Pope Leo

Why is Zack Polanski so obsessed with imperial guilt? His view of history relies on national self-flagellation

Samuel Rubinstein

Decriminalizing rough sleeping won’t help the homeless Britain’s streets will only become grimmer as vagrancy goes unpunished

Ben Ramanauskas

The NHS is still putting gender ideology over women’s rights Healthcare trusts are blinded by the dogma of trans activism

Monday, June 29

ICE raids have prompted a series of protests across America in the last year. Credit: Getty

Trump’s Lance Schroyer pick shows nobody wants to run ICE

London grooming gangs probe could shame the Met The force has a history of fudging sexual abuse investigations

Heavy is the head. Credit: Getty

King Charles is making a mistake by leaning into multiculturalism

Sunday, June 28

Crimea will decide the Ukraine war Kyiv’s forces have forced the Russian-occupied territory into a state of emergency

Bethany Elliott

Will Philip Larkin make Burnham a good prime minister? Britain needs leaders who can read

Joseph Williams

It’s time for a British Panthéon France commemorates its thinkers with suitable gravitas

Saturday, June 27

Nixon is now a lodestar for modern Right-wing counterculture. Credit: Getty

Richard Nixon has become a MAGA hero

Nathan Pinkoski

John Bolton’s guilty plea is the endpoint of DC’s leaking culture DOJ hypocrisy preceded Trump’s presidency

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics Labour has found its first media-savvy communicator in the digital age

Friday, June 26

Failed Senate revolt proves Trump’s hold over the GOP Republicans always fall behind the President eventually

International order is breaking down in the Gulf War in Iran has pushed oil producers apart

Reports suggest half of the 400,000 migrants slated for deportation have been allowed to remain. Credit: Getty

Bureaucracy has stifled Labour’s migration agenda

Would repealing the Equality Act help white working-class boys? The proposal by Reform UK can only go so far

Thursday, June 25

Falling oil prices will take a long time to benefit consumers Donald Trump is hoping for a quick drop in costs at the pump to help in the midterms

New Colombian president could be the key to Trump’s drug war But full-scale military attacks on criminal organizations would destabilize the country

Daniel DePetris

'The greatest danger posed by this bill is not that it will fill the prisons with therapists, parents and GPs. It is that it will make them afraid.' Credit: Getty

Labour’s conversion therapy bill is not fit for purpose

Josephine Bartosch

A digital currency won’t free Europe Plans for an electronic payment system backed by the ECB are moving forward

Wednesday, June 24

Trump’s fraud crackdown is an easy win The President’s populist instincts remain strong

Emily Jashinsky

Police facial recognition expansion won’t make London safer It will erode public freedom

Timandra Harkness

The first child under 12 has been euthanised in the Netherlands according to the nation's health ministry. Credit: Getty

Euthanasia of child in Netherlands is a warning for UK

Adam James Pollock

New York primary results show Democrats’ far-Left pivot Winning candidates, backed by Zohran Mamdani, have a radical record

Women have reasons to fear a Burnham premiership His record on trans activism deserves further scrutiny

Tuesday, June 23

Clavicular has exposed the hollowness of American dating culture The online streamer recently went viral for comments about Paris

Nikos Mohammadi

Tucker Carlson could break the GOP He has withdrawn support from the party and could launch his own movement

France’s alcohol bans are an affront to fun Trigger-happy clampdown’s have become the norm for the state

Richard Crampton-Platt