Signs of the Times
Summer 2025 Collection of News Articles and Recommended Books
Alongside every edition of our newsletter, we assemble a collection of articles from beyond the mainstream media to help you navigate this time of change. This is our list for the Summer Season, 2025. Scroll down for our Recommended books.
UK
Aris Roussinos The Ulsterisation of English Politics: Westminster is losing legitimacy
Melisa Tourt The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions [Online Safety Act]
James Martin Charlton How the police learn two-tier policing
Jack Maidment Lord Glasman: Starmer has six months to save his premiership
Megan Kenyon Corbyn and Sultana launch described as bungled and confused
Mary Harrington Pray for Albion: liberalising abortion and assisted suicide in one week
Bolton/Pitts What’s the point of Corbynism?
Rakib Ehsan Politicians still won’t admit Britain's integration problem
Jonathan Hinder The left-wing case for controlled immigration
Tim Shipman The asylum hotel crisis will cost Labour
Trevor Phillips interviews Maurice Glasman on summer riots and the lanyard class
Sky News Small boat crossings exceed 25,000, up 50% from 2024
Prosperity Insitute Why and How to leave the ECHR
Charles Hymas Albanian people smugglers halved prices to £2,000, lowest price since 2002
Gutteridge/Penna Free speech concern as Home Office monitors anti-migrant social media
Baroness Casey National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Natasha Leake Grooming gang audit links immigration with the exploitation of British girls
Channel 4 One Day in Southport (film)
Mary Harrington Labour’s grooming gang shame: The public sector needs to be purged
Dominic Cummings What Can Be Done? The British State is Fundamentally Broken (Pharos Lecture)
McVitie/Curtis/McEvoy Britain faces a revolutionary moment. Labour must respond
Ian Leslie and Helen Thompson Britain’s next crisis: why a fiscal reckoning is imminent
Liam Halligan Inflation risks taking Britain towards debt-crisis cliff edge
Policy Exchange Your Money or Your Life: London's Knife Crime, Robbery and Street Theft Epidemic
Wes Streeting 10-year plan for NHS reform to deliver through AI and neighbourhood care
Albie Matthews Call to protect farmland from mega solar expansion
Jide Ehizele The New Racism of the British Right
Taggart/Chan Millions to be forced to work for longer under state pension reform
DCMS (UK Government) Civil Society Covenant
Henry Zeffman Government to restrict civil service internships to working class students
Oliver Eagleton Why populists keep winning and what progressives should do about it
David Blair I saw first-hand how Putin and Xi manipulate the naive British state
Ethan Croft Anti-Semitism ‘normalised in middle-class Britain’
Free Speech Union Trade Unions Today: Protecting Workers’ Rights or Policing Workers’ Speech?
Sam Ashworth-Hayes Two-tier policing: nail in the coffin for Britain’s social contract
Esther Webber How the House of Lords could kill Britain’s assisted dying bill
America
Matthew Lynn Why aren’t the stock markets spooked by Trump’s new tariffs?
Michael Lind Bessent’s latest gaffe exposes how hollow Trump’s ‘populism’ really is
Philip Pilkington America Needs a New Bretton Woods
Oren Cass Six months of trade and tariff policy from President Trump
Jennifer Bilek The Architects of "AI Rights" are a Threat to Humanity
Joe Barnes The full, untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine
Michael Powell NYC Mayor Mamdani’s proposals don’t hold up. Does it matter?
International
Michael Behrent Jean-Claude Michéa, the French Conservative Communist
Anne-Françoise Hivert Sweden's teen hitmen are on the rise
Jack Power Nordic states may commit to deportation hub scheme
EPSU Nine European governments attack ECHR for protecting migrant rights
Thomas Fazi The European Green Deal Has Failed
Fati N’Zi-Hassane Africa’s richest four hold more wealth than half the continent
Jonathan Beale & Paul Kirby Russia strikes Kyiv defying Trump ceasefire demand
Da Wei What does China Want in Ukraine?
Helen Thompson China is winning the rare earths war
Helen Andrews How Australia Stopped Grooming Gangs
Telegraph New Zealand overturns Jacinda Ardern’s ban on oil and gas
Israel-Palestine
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Palestine: Revisiting the History of Bin Laden and Modern Jihad
Adrian Blomfield Hamas could be forced into exile by Arab states
The Dinah Project Research Findings on Sexual Violence on October 7
Jonathan Sumption A question of intent: on Israel and Gaza
John Spencer I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza
Heba Saleh Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
Tim Sigsworth Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt call Hamas to disarm and surrender
Richard Spencer World Food Programme says famine thresholds have been crossed in Gaza
Richard Spencer what recognising a Palestinian state would mean in practice
Con Coughlin Macron forgets that Hamas does not want Peace
Thanassis Cambanis Israel is breaking the Middle East
Changing Church
Deneen/Pecknold/Pappin A New Leonine, Augustinian, and American Pope
Sohrab Ahmari The Pope versus the populists: can there be reconciliation?
Philip North Bishop claims church leaders 'silent' on grooming
Kabumba/Adetayo/Kamale Islamic State rebels attack Congo Catholic Church, killing 34
Bess Twiston Davies Groundbreaking “WeBelieve” Catholic Festival Attracts thousands
Giles Fraser No one wants to be Archbishop of Canterbury
Stephen Cottrell Archbishop of York’s Presidential Address to General Synod
Danny Kruger On the need for a Christian restoration
Kristina Millare St. John Henry Newman to be declared 38th doctor of the Church
David Voas Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report
Michael Merrick The mission of Catholic schools in the new era
Cardinal Vincent Nichols Gen Z’s Faith Comeback, Gaza War & Assisted Dying
Christopher Wells Cardinal Pizzaballa: The Church will never abandon the people of Gaza
Madeleine Davies C of E General Synod votes against measures to redistribute Church wealth
Jack Burgess Human dignity must be protected from rise of AI, Pope says
School for Synodality Reading the Final Document: Lectio Divina resources
Rocco Buttiglione and Andrew Willard Jones The Catholic answer to Nationalism
Prison Advice Care Trust Picking Up the Pieces: Criminal Justice Reform
Linda Bordoni Pope reaffirms commitment to full communion with Orthodox Church
George Lapshynov Theos Report: The Church and the Integration of Refugees
Massimo Faggioli The U.S.-born pope faces a different United States
Recommended Books
Kathleen Stock Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death
Rocco Buttiglione Modernity’s Alternative
Jean-Claude Michéa Towards a Conservative Left: Selected Writings
Diocese of Hereford Crossing the Threshold Toolkit: step-by-step guide to managing a church building project
Alan J Roxburgh and Roy Searle Forming Communities of Hope in the Great Unravelling: Leadership in a Changing World
Multiple authors Celebrating Forty Years of Faith in the City (eds Forde/Drummond) (includes chapter by Jenny Sinclair)