Signs of the Times
Autumn 2025 Collection of News Articles and Recommended Books
Alongside every edition of our newsletter, we assemble a collection of articles from new and legacy media to help you navigate this time of change. This is our list for the Autumn Season, 2025. Scroll down for our Recommended books.
UK
Aris Roussinos The extinction of British liberalism
Tony Diver Starmer is lying about China spy case, claim Tories
Tim Sigsworth Nearly nine out of 10 do not back Starmer’s Palestine recognition
James Titcombe How the gig economy conquered Britain & stoked migration crisis
Katharine Birbalsingh My open letter to Bridget Phillipson
Yanis Varoufakis Britain’s Thatcherite doom loop: Farage will be worse than Truss
Charles Hymas Reform’s welfare crackdown
Michael Searles NHS hospitals ‘named and shamed’ in new league tables
Blue Labour Labour must rebuild our national economy (statement)
Aris Roussinos Why Farage is a Burkean
George Owers Why Reform needs Danny Kruger
Tom McTague The delusional joy of Labour conference
Kemi Badenoch Closing party conference speech
Jonny Ball Maurice Glasman interview: Will Reform replace Labour?
Trevor Phillips Starmer has made an enemy of the people by demonising marchers
Allison Pearson Britain’s majority not racist, just terrified of losing the country
Andrew Doyle What fascism really means
Tim Shipman Interview with Shabana Mahmood
Julie Henry Why white, working-class children fail: The race divide in English schools
John Power The Oxford Union’s lynch-mob mentality
Fin de Pencier Meet the man putting hundreds of England flags up around York
Antisemitism in the UK
Maurice Glasman Manchester synagogue attack dishonours our entire nation
Robert Mendick Rabbi led the defiant congregation in prayer
Tanya Gold The future of British Jews: I hope for solidarity. I expect silence.
Miriam Cates We need to talk about Islamic antisemitism
Tom Slater Britain has abandoned Jews to this savagery
Charles Moore Labour’s Islamist grievance politics forces Jews to live in fear
Jacob Howland Manchester: the result of the anti-Israel campaign machine
Mendick/Evans/Makoii Manchester attacker’s father praised Oct 7 Hamas terrorists
Michael Gove When Jews feel unsafe, the candle of freedom is going out
Stephen Pollard As Jewish families mourned, ‘globalise the intifada’ mobs came out
Israel-Palestine
Smith/Bodkin Hamas agrees to first phase of Trump’s Gaza peace deal
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour The End of a Neoliberal Middle East And the New Era
Ross Atkins Israel’s war in Gaza and proportionality
The APPG on UK-Israel 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report
Allison Pearson Eli Sharabi, Hamas hostage for 491 days
FDD British government concluds Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza
America
Michael Lind Putting American workers first is tearing Trump’s coalition apart
Michael Lind The Real Jobs of the Future
Zack Dulberg, Max Horder Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence
Noah Lanard ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy
Wolfgang Munchau Why economists get Trumpism wrong
Joel Kotkin Why Immigration Can’t Revive the Economy
Kaizen Asiedu White People Didn’t Invent Slavery
Sohrab Ahmari What America lost with Charlie Kirk’s open, earnest debate
Batya Ungar Sargon Here Come the New Industrialists
Patrick McGee Apple’s vast supply chain dependency on China
International
Iben Thranholm Denmark’s ‘spiritual rearmament’ is a lesson for the West
Flavia Krause-Jackson An End to France’s Fifth Republic Edges Closer
Katja Hoyer Europe’s demographic crisis turbocharges uncontrollable populist forces
Katja Hoyer How Merkel fuelled the AfD: Her asylum policy was a disaster
Wolfgang Munchau Europe’s deadly debt spiral to decline
James Crisp Germany tried Labour’s ILR volunteering migration plan. It failed.
David Cowan Nvidia chips and the threat to National Security
Michael A. Reynolds How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
Mark Urban How China could take control of Taiwan without a shot being fired
David Blair A single missile has exposed the weakness of Qatar
Humanity
7News Australian sex offender the first prisoner to use voluntary assisted dying
Theresa May “Suicide is wrong”
Knapton/Pinkstone Babies could be born without biological mothers
Alexander Raikin How America abandoned its assisted suicide safeguards
Adam Kirsch The Tyranny of Transhumanism
Lionel Shriver Transgenderism proves people will believe anything
Martin Vander Weyer Don’t surrender to soulless self-checkouts
Wessie Du Toit How green politics failed. Placards won’t save the planet
Katie Gatens My daughter used ChatGPT as a therapist, then took her own life
Steerpike Lords overwhelmingly against assisted dying
Changing Church
Jordan King 7,000 Christians Have Been Killed in Nigeria This Year, Group Says
George Owers The Lanyard Class Archbishop: the essence of what’s wrong with CofE
Madeleine Davies The “Quiet Revival” research: myth or reality (long read)
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour The Rise of Critical Christianity
Tom Holland Islam, Christianity & the West
Damian Thompson Why Pope Leo was right to canonise Carlo Acutis
Joanna Williams The right is flocking to Christianity, making liberal clergy squirm
Mahon McCann and Jordan Hall Two converts discuss how to survive the meta crisis
Pope Leo XIV Dilexit Te (I Have Loved You) first apostolic exhortation
Recommended Books
George Owers The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain
Tim Rogan The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism
Alan J Roxburgh and Roy Searle Forming Communities of Hope in the Great Unravelling: Leadership in a Changing World
Forde/Drummond Celebrating Forty Years of Faith in the City (multiple authors: includes chapter by Jenny Sinclair)
Eli Sharabi Hostage: The first memoir by an Israeli hostage
Patrick McGee Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Adrian Pabst and Roberto Scazzieri The Constitution of Political Economy: Polity, Society and the Commonweal