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• How Scotland learned to love Nigel Farage
• There are three ways moderates could yet save the Tories. One is to renounce Brexit | Polly Toynbee
• Announcing the Sigma Awards 2025 Shortlist
• Keir Starmer can’t build a stronger European partnership by stealth. He has to declare it aloud | Rafael Behr
• Stop sneering at Reform voters
• One cheer for the UK trade agreement - Washington Examiner
• Australia’s clean energy industry has just survived a near-death experience. Where to from here? | Kane Thornton
• Emily Damari, a 28-year-old British-Israeli who was held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, blasts the Pulitzer Prize Board for awarding the award to Mosab Abu Toha
• The UK deal is a good start, but Trump needs more to declare victory
• Cardinal Robert Prevost, a U.S. citizen, is the first American pope
• Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation | Gaby Hinsliff
• Pope Leo XIV Crowned as First American Pontiff
• This trade deal belongs to Donald Trump
• India launches series of strikes on locations within Pakistan and Kashmir
• 'Hero of the story is actually the villain,' former African Development Foundation employees tell Daily Wire
• The ‘Darth Vader’ tribunal speaks to our hyper-fragile times
• The European Union plans to hit more than $100 billion worth of U.S. goods with additional tariffs
• This is a speech by Christopher J. Farrell, Director of Investigations and Research for Judicial Watch
• This case arises from the kidnapping of three Israeli citizens by Hamas in October 2023
• The myth of the Bad War
• Can Ed Miliband stand the heat?
• Trump says he will announce a major trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning
• UK Finds Its Trade Mojo As It Inks Deals From Delhi To DC
• Who killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – and why? | Dion Nissenbaum
• Did Mexican President 'La presidenta' Sheinbaum really say no to U.S. troops?
• Paul Begala: Harvard hired a 'Palestinian-Canadian' to teach a class on Hamas. It's not a 'movement for freedom, for liberation.'
• Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform UK will continue to prosper | Larry Elliott
• How State Agents Target Journalists the Government Claims to Protect: Stark Warnings from Mexico and Honduras
• On VE Day, remember the war – but can we resolve to honour all who fought in it? | Gary Younge
• France and Poland’s reconciliation is a sign of Europe’s alarm over US disengagement
• More Troops Injured as U.S. Planes Keep Plunging Into Red Sea
• The Greens’ identity crisis: where to now for a party built on protesting against the status quo?
• Biden's $230 million Gaza aid pier cost more than $31 million in damage, according to a new Pentagon report
• US has surrendered the seas to China — here’s how to win them back
• Aid groups want to prolong war, dodging the tariff apocalypse and other commentary
• I want to define cancel culture because I think people are equating many different things that are not cancel culture
• European elites destroy democracy in order to save it
• The Conclave Is Here. But Another Church Is Making a Decision That Will Be Just as Consequential.
• This Jewish woman's attack by a pro-Israel mob went viral. Now she's speaking out.
• A Holocaust tale for today
• 'American Intifada: How the Left Learned to Hate Israel and Love Hamas,' by Uri Kaufman
• That sound you’re hearing is public nuisance capitalism
• Friedrich Merz arrives as a humbled new German chancellor – but that may not be the worst way to start | Jörg Lau
• Nicola Sturgeon has learned nothing from the trans debacle
• The Reserve Bank played it safe and didn’t cut interest rates in April – and households suffer as | Greg Jericho
• Modi’s deadly bombing strike on Pakistan goes to the heart of India’s great dilemma | Chietigj Bajpaee
• The African Development Foundation may have been the most corrupt agency in D.C., a Daily Wire investigation finds
• India must step back from the brink
• India conducts multiple airstrikes on Pakistan
• Letter of the week: Roundabout responsibilities
• Reform is the right-wing media’s monster
• Farage is a protean politician and more pragmatic than is generally understood
• Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill | Ahmed Moor
• Author: The 7 October warning failure was uniquely complete—a full-spectrum failure produced by the Israeli intelligence community’s belief that Hamas had been deterred from confronting the IDF
• Canada’s Newest Identity, Made in the USA
• Déjà Vu, Dr. Strangelove. India Strikes Back
• Paralysis as usual in Starmer’s No 10
• Labour needs a hard reset
• Hamas has 'a window of opportunity' to agree to a hostage deal with Israel before Trump’s visit
• Victor Davis Hanson: The pressure is all on Iran. What is the likely scenario? The likely scenario is they will lose face if they negotiate away their nuclear weapons
• Last week, Syrian jihadists attacked Druse communities in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya
• Essential Open Source Tools for Journalists Investigating Air Pollution
• If the Greens really are to become the Reform-style populists of the left, Zack Polanski could be their man | Owen Jones
• The lack of Liberal women isn’t just a political liability – it’s a structural failure. Of course we should consider quotas | Maria Kovacic
• The war to end all peace
• Reform's locals-victory was no fluke
• Cosplaying Reform will doom Labour
• The crackdown on the AfD is an assault on democracy
• German Democracy Is in Peril
• Singapore’s People’s Action Party wins a decisive victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since 2024
• Rubio announces the U.S. has rescued all the hostages held by the Venezuelan regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas
• Tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan spike after India launches airstrikes on Pakistan-controlled territory
• U.S. Troops Are Being Attacked Every Other Day in the Middle East
• How ‘eating bitterness’ has pushed China’s enraged workers to the brink
• India Launches Missile Attack on Pakistan-Controlled Kashmir
• An intelligence memo casts further doubt on Trump's nonsensical definition of 'alien enemies'
• U.S. aid official who refused to give government access to his agency’s books may have steered contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments
• A Wake-Up Call to British Labour
• A political pillow fight Down Under
• Trump says India has agreed to drop 'one of the highest tariffs in the world'
• Trump says the U.S. will stop bombing Yemen's Houthi rebels
• Seize Gaza, or make it uninhabitable. That’s Netanyahu’s plan – and either way he wins | Yair Wallach
• Israel Bombs Yemen’s Capital Airport, ‘Fully Disabling’ Houthi Terrorist Base
• India, UK Strike Ambitious Trade Deal
• The Settlers: An Incomplete Portrayal
• Did Trump Do Europe a Favor?
• Israel is starving us in Gaza. This is what that feels like | Aya Al-Hattab
• Fighting the War on Western Man
• Yes, of course Oxford Street should be pedestrianised. But let’s not stop there | Phineas Harper
• Silencing the Press: The Case of Alsu Kurmasheva and the Growing Threat of ‘Foreign Agent’ Laws
• The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming | Polly Toynbee
• Starmer can turn Reform’s rise to his advantage
• The fight for Labour’s future
• On Humanitarian Aid to Gaza - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU | Simon Nixon
• Israel has no choice but to take control of Gaza and at last destroy Hamas
• The Pakistan-Taliban Divorce Gets Messy
• The bloodbath in Labour’s heartlands
• The delicious media meltdown over Reform’s success
• As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons