Iran has killed off Reeves’s fiscal rules. Here’s how to radically rewrite them
Bring back quantitative easing, reboot the OBR and – for a while – let inflation shrink the debt mountain
Politics
GB News Scandal: How Ofcom let GB News corrupt British media
The regulator is there to make sure news channels don’t break the rules. But somewhere along the line, it stopped doing its job. Why?
How Brexit screwed the economy – a horror story
We were lab rats in one of the biggest economic experiments of all time. It was a disaster, and it’s getting worse all the time
Do your duty! Watch an hour of GB News
We need Ofcom to act against a TV channel out of control. Here’s how you can help
Trump’s Iran war is becoming a fundamentalist Christian crusade
The war is being overseen by senior US officials, including Pete Hegseth, with beliefs and attitudes towards non-believers that are almost medieval
Whose children shouldn’t go to university? Not mine
There are plenty of politicians and commentators out there who will tell you that too many kids go to university. But they don’t mean their own kids
How Germany turned a bookshop prize into a culture war
Culture minister Wolfram Weimer has cancelled grants for three left-leaning stores
The Africans dying in Putin’s failing war
The Russian army is luring Kenyans to fight in Ukraine. Processed and sent to the front after minimal training, most of them are dying before their first pay cheque has even cleared
How Europe can win the war after the war
Reshaping our place in the post-Trump, post-Brexit, post-Iran world is about strength, not virtue
It’s football, but without the oligarchs
Union Berlin was on the verge of going under, when the fans decided they would rebuild the club, starting with the stadium. And it worked
The bold Brexit moves that could save Labour
A royal commission on the effects of leaving the EU would reboot Starmer’s reset and steal a march on the Greens
Lucie Aubrac, the pregnant spy who outwitted the Gestapo
Her remarkable wartime exploits – including a dramatic prison break – made her a legend of the French Resistance
The rain in Spain is mainly causing pain
The weather in the south of the country has been so severe that floods have swept everything away in their path
The year in pictures
A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war
Who’s funding David Frost’s climate-sceptic think thank?
The Institute of Economic Affairs has received huge amounts of cash from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch
When climate fiction stops being fiction
As Cop30 approaches, apocalyptic visions look more everyday than ever
The Tory peer and the heat pump job he failed to clear
Former energy minister Martin Callanan has taken a job with a heat pump firm he failed to clear with the watchdog
Sponsor at Farage’s own conference accuses him of ‘far right’ rhetoric
The founder of Quews News has used his YouTube channel to slam the Reform leader’s views on immigration
How Brexit screwed the economy – a horror story
We were lab rats in one of the biggest economic experiments of all time. It was a disaster, and it’s getting worse all the time
The Star Citizen question: can you make a decent game for a billion bucks?
It has been in development for 16 years and yet players keep falling through the floor into the infinite void of space. After all that money, will there be a decent game at the end of it?
If you have kids but can’t be arsed to speak to them, what’s the point?
It’s depressing to see tiny children glued to screens and worrying to think what this total absorption in tech will do to their young minds. Are we raising a generation of screen-addicted zombies?
Palantir boasts its AI will harm Labour voters. Why doesn’t Starmer kick it out?
CEO Alex Karp said the quiet part out loud in an interview. Yet his company is still embedded in our NHS and defence
Who owns the moon?
A 1967 treaty says it belongs to no one – but Putin and Musk have other ideas…
Self-confessed Luddite Farage stashes his cash in Kwarteng’s bitcoin business
Two months after admitting he didn’t “do computers” the Reform leader has invested £215,000 into the former chancellor’s crypto firm
Like ski jumping, but more terrifying
Ralph Steadman and the death of fun
The wellness scam economy of the algorithm age
The philosophy behind the BBC’s Waiting for the Out
Renate Reinsve’s impossible journey
Naomi Alderman: ‘The right side is not largely defined by your opinions’
Joan Armatrading shows the right are wrong about Birmingham
