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'The EU's LGBTIQ+ Strategy is less about human rights than about branding' | Josephine Bartosch

EU doubles down on gender ideology with radical self-ID plan

This week, Hadja Lahbib, a European Commissioner, announced the bloc’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy. She declared that it would be a “new phase in our efforts to promote equality for LGBTIQ+”, aimed “at…

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‘Reading it hasn’t affected my religious tendencies either way, but it has definitely undermined my faith in science’ | Kathleen Stock
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The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Not an Agatha Christie Novel / Jesus of Nazareth

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A Reform UK chancellor would be in the exact same position as Rachel Reeves, forced to hike taxes and kowtow to bond markets | Henry Hill

Will Reform UK ever be the party of business?

Reform UK is reportedly stepping up its efforts to woo business. This week the Times reported that Nigel Farage is due to meet Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire chemicals magnate, merely weeks after…

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‘Chewing out hapless reporters and junior staff is not a personality quirk — it’s a political defect.’ | Zaid Jilani

Katie Porter shows why Democrats keep alienating Republican voters

The California governor’s race is being shaken up by a testy interview between former Democratic congresswoman Katie Porter and a local news reporter. Porter, who is running for governor, was asked…

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To the Israeli Right, the ceasefire deal looks like a dangerous capitulation. Hamas and its Iranian backers view it in the same way | David Rose and Ali Hamedani

How the Gaza ceasefire could fall apart

The Israeli cabinet is meeting this afternoon and is widely expected to approve a ceasefire deal in Gaza. It means that US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war and redevelop the…

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‘Being Anglo-Nigerian myself, I'm just about old enough to remember when British blackness was Caribbean in character’ | Ralph Leonard
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Why the Right mythologises Windrush

A fading historical moment? / Babylon

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‘The reigning value system of the arts in this century has been one of increasingly unabashed obsession with wild financial success, naked greed, grifting, and cynical rebranding’ | Sam Jennings
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The last days of poptimism

Sabrina Carpenter’s music is pure 70s A.M. radio, country, and the occasional Prince-lite disco track. Credits: Island Records

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During the pandemic stamp duty holiday, house prices rose at their fastest rates since the 2004 boom. Scrapping it will hardly solve the housing crisis | Andrew O’Brien

Scrapping stamp duty will alienate Northern Tories

When Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged on Wednesday to abolish stamp duty on primary home sales, the proposal received widespread support. Stamp duty is the third-most hated tax in the UK,…

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‘While the highest offices in the CCP are staffed with engineers, Washington is the capital of a lawyerly society’ | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
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Will China’s breakneck growth stumble?

While the highest offices in the CCP are staffed with engineers, Washington is the capital of a lawyerly society. Photo: Greg Baker/Getty.

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‘Trump has demonstrated his remarkable knack for corralling rival factions into alignment with his goals.’ | Tom Rogan

Gaza ceasefire could be Trump’s greatest victory yet

President Donald Trump appeared to secure a huge political victory on Wednesday evening when he announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to implement “the first Phase of our Peace Plan”. Trump’s…

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‘The Greens have built walls high enough to shut out dozens of their own members whose only crime was to hold gender-critical views’ | Julie Bindel
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The Green Party’s war on women

Does Queen Caroline know what a woman is? (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Getty)

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Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius or just a smart guy who got lucky? If the AI bubble bursts, we’ll soon know | Gavin Haynes

Will Sam Altman’s chipmaking gamble implode?

Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius? Or is he just a smart guy who struck it lucky and is now about to go shopping with the global capital markets’ credit cards? His company OpenAI has this year…

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Prominent Tory politicians throughout the conference have tried to reposition the party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform — by calling their rivals Left-wing | Max Mitchell

‘Farage is socialist’ becomes new Tory attack line

Prominent Tory politicians throughout this week’s conference have tried to reposition their party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform: by…

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‘Christianity in this charged moment is no longer an intricate constellation of disputed beliefs but something easier to grasp: an identity’ | Michael Ledger-Lomas

Christian nationalism’s godless heart

To be Christian is to commit oneself to values — the family, the nation the West — that are under threat. Credit: Matej Divizna / Getty Images

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'Just as Trump is making headlines with deportations, he is opening the back door for yet more poverty-wage labour on America’s farms' | Dustin Guastella

Trump’s new farm rule betrays American workers

Last week, the Trump administration pushed through a rule change that went largely unnoticed by the mainstream press. Under the new rules, H-2A workers — the only uncapped guest worker programme in…

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‘People incapable of defending their arguments at the pub were able to broadcast their ignorance without justification or debate’ | Poppy Sowerby

How posers conquered politics

‘Given a platform, political posers thrived.’ Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Getty Images

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When a dying Lord Nelson asked Captain Hardy to kiss him, little did he know that two centuries later he'd be written into LGBT history | Philip Hensher

‘Queer history’ doesn’t need Lord Nelson

There is a venerable journalistic principle that any question posed in a headline can be answered with the word “no”. For instance, “can drinking salt water add 10 years to your life?” In the same…

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‘Does Stephen Fry or Paloma Faith really care enough about the outcome to publicly stab somebody in the back?’ | Tom Chivers

Lies, damned lies, and Claudia Winkleman

‘What’s fascinating about the show is that you get to see something very rare.’ The Traitors / BBC

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‘Nor does the Thatcherite policy mix do much to quell the populist backlash fermenting outside the dynamic metropolitan citadels’ | Jonny Ball

The march of the undead Tories

A Thatcher-themed séance won’t save the Tories. Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty.

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The EU’s new 50% steel tariffs won’t just hit China.

They could finish off what’s left of Britain’s industry, warns Chris Bayliss 👇

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Bluesky tried to be the antidote to X.

Now it’s fighting the same culture wars it was built to escape, writes Katherine Dee 👇

Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks

Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now…

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'Examining one’s sexual attractions is not the same as deciding whether or not to alter one’s body or identity' | Lisa Selin Davis

Supreme Court should stand up for free speech on conversion therapy

Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing Chiles v. Salazar, known colloquially as the “conversion therapy case”. This case tests the limits of state authority over therapy — what can be…

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‘Reform may be feeding off the anger poor communities like those in South Wales are feeling today, but they didn’t cause it’ | Brad Evans
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Nationalism has claimed the Valleys

‘Miners from South Wales made up the largest contingent of volunteers from Britain in the fight against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War.’ Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty.

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‘Thomas Pynchon passes out shadow tickets left and right, just as God does, because that’s how life goes' | William T. Vollmann
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Thomas Pynchon's world of shadows

‘Prohibition still in hypocritical force and Al Capone’s heirs blowing up the competition.’ Photo: George Rinhart/Getty.

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The Tory Party is taking inspiration from Trump on immigration following meetings between senior Conservatives and JD Vance, Chris Philp said today | Max Mitchell

Chris Philp: Tories are looking to Trump for deportations plan

The Conservative Party is taking inspiration from the Trump administration in crafting its immigration proposals, according to Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp. Speaking at a fringe event at the…

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