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Macron's Legacy

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Why is the BBC hiding the backgrounds of terrorists?

Simon Cottee

Wednesday, October 21 Wednesday
Oct 21^st

Reaction 18:00

Impeaching Hegseth will backfire on Democrats

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The reality that impeachment is simply highly unlikely to succeed.

Michael Baharaeen

Analysis 16:00

France has failed to learn the lessons of Britain’s riots

France has failed to learn the lessons of Britain’s riots

Peter Franklin

Reaction 11:45

The Covid Inquiry has a care home blindspot

David Paton

Debate 07:00

Labour’s headphone dodger crackdown is too timid

Will Solfiac

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Three cheers for the omniculture

Diversity

Three cheers for the omniculture It’s the West’s real strength

Michael Lind

8 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:03am

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help

review

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:04am

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:02am

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help

review

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help “Persevilience” won’t save Britain

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:04am

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture Only frauds talk about their feelings

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:02am

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help

review

Alastair Campbell’s vacuous self-help “Persevilience” won’t save Britain

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:04am

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway’s war on therapy culture Only frauds talk about their feelings

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:02am

From the UK edition

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Tuesday, October 20 Tuesday
Oct 20^th

Debate 11:30

Labour-Lib Dem coalition would hurt both parties

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Under PR, it’s now possible that the Lib Dems would lose seats.

Lee David Evans

Sunday, October 18 Sunday
Oct 18^th

Debate 08:00

Labour’s ‘extreme’ porn ban is a threat to free speech

Charlie Davies

Friday, October 16 Friday
Oct 16^th

Reaction 16:30

Andy Burnham is a gift to Scottish nationalists

Iain Macwhirter

Wednesday, October 14 Wednesday
Oct 14^th

Analysis 07:00

Britain’s economy is living on borrowed time

Britain’s economy is living on borrowed time

John Rapley

Tuesday, October 13 Tuesday
Oct 13^th

Analysis 07:00

Is Labour set for a showdown with the Bank of England?

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, October 12 Monday
Oct 12^th

News 16:00

Humza Yousaf: Greens’ Zionism motion was a misstep

Humza Yousaf: Greens’ Zionism motion was a misstep

Shea Ferguson

Sunday, October 11 Sunday
Oct 11^th

News 16:00

Jess Phillips: Labour should put Rejoin in its next manifesto

Rob Lownie

Friday, October 9 Friday
Oct 9^th

Reaction 07:40

Holborn by-election decisively ends the Green wave

Holborn by-election decisively ends the Green wave

David Jeffery

Thursday, October 8 Thursday
Oct 8^th

Explainer 13:00

Why Birmingham is Britain’s benefits capital

Dan Cave

Dispatch 07:00

Kemi Badenoch’s popularity won’t spark a Tory revival

Rob Lownie

The Budget is Britain’s tribal ritual

Culture

The Budget is Britain’s tribal ritual Does John Healey have shamanic powers?

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Oct 22 2026 - 12:00am

Brussels will destroy Andy Burnham

Rejoin

Brussels will destroy Andy Burnham The EU was never Labour’s friend

Jonny Ball

6 mins

Oct 21 2026 - 12:04am

France has not fallen

Cultural imperialism

France has not fallen Americans need to look in the mirror

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Oct 20 2026 - 12:04am

How the radical Left came for Mamdani

Virtue hoarding

How the radical Left came for Mamdani Activists see compromise as treason

Aaron Bastani

6 mins

Oct 20 2026 - 12:02am

Watch & listen

The Econoclasts Macron’s Legacy

Andrew Hussey & Philippe Lemoine Who are the French rioters?

The Econoclasts The US is breaking with Europe on Russia

Kevin Esvelt The warning of the Russian plague

The Econoclasts France is showing Europe what comes next

Politics

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07.22 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

06.29 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

06.27 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

What liberals get wrong about social media

What liberals get wrong about social media

Matt Feeney

8 mins

Britain shouldn’t leave Sierra Leone

Britain shouldn’t leave Sierra Leone

Alex Diggins

12 mins

The Econoclasts Europe’s war fever is getting dangerous

Tuesday, October 20 Tuesday
Oct 20^th

Review 18:00

There will never be another Norm Macdonald

There will never be another Norm Macdonald

Matthew Gasda

Debate 14:00

Democrats are facing a Jewish exodus

Sam Kahn

Analysis 07:00

Labour is wrong to blame Brexit for the small boats crisis

Philip Cunliffe

A dangerous rewrite of rape law

Crime and punishment

A dangerous rewrite of rape law It puts sexual partners in an impossible position

Jenin Younes

6 mins

Oct 21 2026 - 12:00am

deep history

The sacred art of graffiti On cave drawings, teenage vandals and future ruins

David Keenan

6 mins

Aug 21 2026 - 10:12am

Weekend Dispatch

Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0 The alliance relies on coercion and censorship

Lily Lynch

7 mins

Jul 11 2026 - 12:03am

Clarissa Ward Will mainstream media survive?

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why is Britain blocking AI?

Data centers

Why is Britain blocking AI? Our dysfunction is costing us

Tom Ough

6 mins

Oct 21 2026 - 12:03am

Conservatives

Why hot people are Right-wing The beautiful inhabit a different reality

Turi Munthe

5 mins

Jul 2 2026 - 12:00am

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
UnHerd is for people who dare to think for themselves.

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Why Democrats won’t stop inflation

Economy

Why Democrats won’t stop inflation It’s the price of ending globalization

Justin H. Vassallo

7 mins

Oct 20 2026 - 12:01am

Monday, October 19 Monday
Oct 19^th

Debate 18:30

Women are not the scapegoats of the Trump presidency

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 17:00

Japan is abandoning its nuclear weapons taboo

Japan is abandoning its nuclear weapons taboo

Philip Patrick

News 14:30

UK terror watchdog: free speech absolutism undermines democracy

Rob Lownie

Reaction 11:45

Is Reform UK unfairly targeted by the media?

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Any misconduct is immediately cast as evidence that the party is an essentially criminal organisation.

Harry Jee

Dispatch 07:00

Protests are a response to France’s legitimacy crisis

Harrison Stetler

Weekend Essay

Can Burnham banish Maggie's ghost? She’s the root of Labour’s woes

Jonny Ball

7 mins

May 25 2026 - 12:00am

Exclusive

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:02am

Iain McGilchrist AI versus the human soul

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Women shouldn’t settle for mid men

Dating

Women shouldn’t settle for mid men The fairer sex has raised its standards

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Oct 21 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Spotlight

The twilight of the intellectual dark web Heterodox thinkers have become circus acts

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

May 9 2026 - 12:10am

Culture

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08.04 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

07.19 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

02.15 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

Britain’s teddy-bear morality

Britain’s teddy-bear morality

Cosmo Adair

5 mins

The cinema of 9/11

The cinema of 9/11

David Thomson

6 mins

Nick Bostrom The truth about the AI panic

Sunday, October 18 Sunday
Oct 18^th

Review 18:00

‘You Can See Everything’ exposes the delusion of Millennial idealism

‘You Can See Everything’ exposes the delusion of Millennial idealism

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 15:00

Destruction of France’s beautiful buildings is a civic tragedy

Nicholas Boys Smith

Analysis 13:00

Trump’s sanctions waiver is about America, not Russia

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Trump is on no one’s side but his own.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Saturday, October 17 Saturday
Oct 17^th

Analysis 16:00

Netflix is no longer a cultural behemoth

Oliver Bateman

Explainer 13:00

Europe’s protests are a revolt against Atlanticism

Europe’s protests are a revolt against Atlanticism

Thomas Fazi

Analysis 08:00

Is Christine Lagarde preparing to flee a Le Pen presidency?

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The scope for ECB intervention is much more limited than it was in the last decade.

Wolfgang Munchau

Zohran Mamdani is no revolutionary

The Left

Zohran Mamdani is no revolutionary Whatever happened to Islamo-communism?

James Billot

5 mins

Oct 19 2026 - 12:01am

writing

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

5 mins

Apr 10 2026 - 12:00am

Atlanticism

Can SNL save British comedy? It has caught Donald Trump’s eye

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

Mar 23 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts The centre-Left’s betrayal destroyed Europe

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

France has not fallen

Cultural imperialism

France has not fallen Americans need to look in the mirror

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Oct 20 2026 - 12:04am

Terrorism

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

Science

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06.18 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

11.25 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

10.01 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

The lesson of the Russian plague

The lesson of the Russian plague

Filippa Lentzos

6 mins

Inside the Lyme disease industrial complex

Inside the Lyme disease industrial complex

Margaret McCartney and Deborah Cohen

9 mins

The Econoclasts The AI extinction myth is a scam

Inside the Anthropic HQ

Inside the Anthropic HQ Employees are fluent in memes and abstractions

Mary Harrington

8 mins

Oct 17 2026 - 12:15am

Friday, October 16 Friday
Oct 16^th

Reaction 18:30

Democrats have a new identity crisis

Ryan Zickgraf

News 14:00

Alice Weidel: We don’t want a German caliphate

Shea Ferguson

Analysis 10:00

Greens’ Zionism row could tear the party in two

Greens’ Zionism row could tear the party in two

Peter Franklin

Reaction 07:00

NHS’s trans ban comes far too late

Joan Smith

Weekend Essay

How Gorton beat Denton The new politics is ethnic, not sectarian

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How the radical Left came for Mamdani

Virtue hoarding

How the radical Left came for Mamdani Activists see compromise as treason

Aaron Bastani

6 mins

Oct 20 2026 - 12:02am

Weekend Essay

Why myths can save humanity Old stories fill our lives with dignity

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

Faith

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09.19 2026

Muslim cleric’s award withdrawal shows limits of liberal Christianity

07.05 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

09.26 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

Russell Brand’s American rebirth

Jack Burke

9 mins

How to survive the end times

How to survive the end times

Simon Critchley

7 mins

Helen Andrews Are women to blame for woke?

Thursday, October 15 Thursday
Oct 15^th

Explainer 19:00

Big money is pulling the Democrats Left

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Mamdani's success has convinced more donors to join the fray.

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 14:00

Anti-Trump stance is the Tories’ best bet against Farage

David Jeffery

Analysis 10:00

MI5 is woefully underprepared for next foreign terror threat

Dominic Adler

Reaction 07:00

Sally Rooney’s book withdrawal is a tragedy for literary sadgirls

Sally Rooney’s book withdrawal is a tragedy for literary sadgirls

Poppy Sowerby

Wednesday, October 14 Wednesday
Oct 14^th

Explainer 18:30

OpenAI spy scandal marks new front in espionage

Elliot Leavy

Debate 16:00

Will Greta Gerwig betray CS Lewis’s Narnia vision?

Niall Gooch

Reaction 13:00

Oxford University has lost its marbles over idioms

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They represent language at its most various, characteristic and inventive.

Philip Hensher

Debate 10:00

The school screens war has become a class signifier

Kristina Murkett

The DOGE revolution isn't over

Weekend Analysis

The DOGE revolution isn't over We live in an age of mindless destruction

Malcom Kyeyune

6 mins

Oct 17 2026 - 12:03am

Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix The former nurse is as banal as she is evil

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

Feb 6 2026 - 12:00am

50 years on

Agatha Christie and the red scare Twenties crime capers were obsessed with communism

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

Aris Roussinos Inside the war for Piddington

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Trump has triggered the Ukrainian endgame

War

Trump has triggered the Ukrainian endgame Europe can’t avert a deal

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Oct 19 2026 - 12:03am

weekend essay

Britain's Atlantic subordination Our place in the world is clear

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

War

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08.27 2026

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

07.31 2026

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons?

Britain’s military bases are imperiled

Britain’s military bases are imperiled

David Shipley

6 mins

Britain can't win the Everywhere War

Britain can't win the Everywhere War

Mary Harrington

6 mins

The Econoclasts Economic stagnation has broken German democracy

Meet Canada's Wild West secessionists

Weekend Dispatch

Meet Canada's Wild West secessionists A free Alberta needs more than black gold

Tim Querengesser

8 mins

Oct 17 2026 - 12:01am

Tuesday, October 13 Tuesday
Oct 13^th

Reaction 15:00

Mamdani’s NYPD reforms will punish good policing

Josh Appel

Dispatch 13:00

Spain’s housing protests should scare European leaders

Julian Bovill

Debate 10:00

Shane Gillis SNL response is confected outrage

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Every year or two the show reconnects with its countercultural roots.

Ryan Zickgraf

Looksmaxxing is the new trans Clavicular’s cybertruck smashes conservative hope

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

Year In Review

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

Wolfgang Munchau The AfD momentum is unstoppable

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How Macron Antoinette failed France

Riots

How Macron Antoinette failed France Le Pen has outshone him

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

6 mins

Oct 19 2026 - 12:02am

America

The futility of retiree protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

Society

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09.29 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

09.28 2025

The WHO’s anti-alcohol campaign is a war against joy

09.25 2025

ICE shooting doesn’t herald a new era of Left-wing violence

A life with Siberian tigers

A life with Siberian tigers

Polly Clark

6 mins

There's nothing more French than a riot

There's nothing more French than a riot

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

The Econoclasts Iceland has exposed Europe’s unity illusion

Monday, October 12 Monday
Oct 12^th

Reaction 18:30

James Talarico conspiracies embarrass MAGA influencers

James Talarico conspiracies embarrass MAGA influencers

Sohrab Ahmari

Analysis 13:45

Nigel Farage’s asylum pledge isn’t extremist

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The case for accepting refugees is no longer self-evident to much of the public.

Chris Bayliss

Debate 10:00

Anthropic’s Claude cruelty policy risks humanizing AI

Timandra Harkness

Reaction 07:00

Drumcree march ban comes at a cost to nationalists

Drumcree march ban comes at a cost to nationalists

Gerry Lynch

Sunday, October 11 Sunday
Oct 11^th

Analysis 13:00

Will Trump’s diesel deal with Russia bring down Zelensky?

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It was clear from the outset that the deal was going to be a victory for Putin.

Maximilian Hess

Explainer 08:00

AfD is moving closer to power by softening EU stance

Peter Franklin

When the English ate the rich

Weekend Spotlight

When the English ate the rich The Peasants’ Revolt is socialist catnip

Samuel Rubinstein

8 mins

Oct 17 2026 - 12:00am

zoomers

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

History

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts America is spiralling towards a debt crisis

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why my classmates want me silenced

Woke Two

Why my classmates want me silenced Cancel culture is back in force at Columbia

Nikos Mohammadi

4 mins

Oct 16 2026 - 12:34am

Nobel peace prize

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Oct 9 2025 - 11:59pm