Taylor Sheridan’s oil-industry drama trades in gender stereotypes, reactionary politics, and blatant product placement. Why, then, is it so damn satisfying?

Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said in an interview published Tuesday that Russians need to rethink their attitudes toward early parenthood, reframing it as the “norm” amid government...

Shadow minister posts picture of himself at protest outside Essex hotel that has become anti-immigration flashpoint Robert Jenrick has been severely criticised by Labour after the shadow justice secretary was pictured at an anti-asylum rally in Essex attended by a veteran far-right activist. Jenrick posted photos on X showing himself visiting the protest outside the Bell hotel in Epping, where police have been attacked and police vehicles vandalised by groups of men taking part in the demonstration. The MP met protesters including a woman with a T-shirt bearing the message: “Send them home.” Continue reading...

When a gunman riding a powerful motorbike pulled up outside a busy restaurant in north London and fired six shots in two seconds, the first bullet shattered the glass and hit a nine-year-old girl in the head.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly demands that he be given control of the whole of the Donbas as part - and only part - of his price for any peace deal with Ukraine.

Semi-legitimate "crime" is built into the liberal strategy because it is allergic to hard power and formal sovereignty. But this is unstable. Eventually, the liberal centre will not be able to govern....

Gaslighting as Governance They tell us crime is falling as women are raped in public parks and children are assaulted in schools by “new arrivals” we were told would enrich our culture. Question this...

In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced exiled YouTuber Ilya Varlamov to eight years in prison in absentia on charges of violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law and spreading “false information” about the...