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Explainer NOW

Any US-China trade deal will be a mirage

Both sides have tactical reasons to calm the immediate storm.

Miquel Vila

Analysis 5h

Another Kamala Harris run would only benefit the GOP

Zaid Jilani

Reaction 10h

Is Christian revivalism at odds with nationalism?

Ralph Leonard

Saturday, October 25th Saturday
Oct 25^th

Analysis 19:15

The real danger of the AI bubble

Wolfgang Munchau

Explainer 16:00

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

Peter Franklin

Debate 13:00

Ed Miliband’s renewables drive is too much, too soon

Britain needs cheap energy, not cheap accounting tricks.

Kathryn Porter

Reaction 08:08

UK asylum failures endanger women

Joan Smith

View more from the newsroom

Why feminists fell out of love Mankeeping spells the death of intimacy

Matt Feeney

10 mins

25 Oct

weekend dispatch

Dominic Cummings’ new nerd army

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

25 Oct

Ireland can’t escape Big Daddy

Lucy Sweeney Byrne

7 mins

25 Oct

weekend dispatch

Dominic Cummings’ new nerd army Britain’s Young Turks are looking for growth

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

25 Oct

Ireland can’t escape Big Daddy Authority is still associated with England

Lucy Sweeney Byrne

7 mins

25 Oct

anti-vax

The toxic cult of Andrew Wakefield The disgraced doctor has found a new audience

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Oct

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

6 mins

23 Oct

The Green Party’s shallow revolution Polanski will usher in Farageism

Jonny Ball

6 mins

24 Oct

Trump is coming for Venezuela He’s embraced a Neo-Monroe Doctrine

John Masko

8 mins

24 Oct

Culture

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

From the US edition

Explainer NOW

Any US-China trade deal will be a mirage

Both sides have tactical reasons to calm the immediate storm.

Miquel Vila

Analysis 5h

Another Kamala Harris run would only benefit the GOP

Zaid Jilani

Reaction 10h

Is Christian revivalism at odds with nationalism?

Ralph Leonard

Saturday, October 25th Saturday
Oct 25^th

Analysis 19:15

The real danger of the AI bubble

Wolfgang Munchau

Explainer 16:00

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

Peter Franklin

Make Sports Sacred Again Gambling promotes addiction and decay

Bhaskar Sunkara

5 mins

25 Oct

The Catholic fight over immigration The Church upholds migrant rights — and borders

Edward Feser

6 mins

25 Oct

Climbing ‘The Magic Mountain’ today Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism

Morten Høi Jensen

5 mins

25 Oct

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

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

23 Oct

Watch & listen

Emily Jashinsky The MAGA tug of war

Emily Jashinsky The Jay Jones text scandal

Helen Andrews The great feminisation

Emily Jashinsky Trump’s Venezuela intervention

Emily Jashinsky KJP’s book tour fumble

Our writers

Kathleen Stock

Mary Harrington

Aris Roussinos

David Rose

Poppy Sowerby

Yanis Varoufakis

Sohrab Ahmari

Helen Thompson

Christopher Caldwell

Wolfgang Munchau

Terry Eagleton

David Patrikarakos

Politics

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29.09 2025

Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

29.09 2025

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

29.09 2025

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Shabana Mahmood versus the Labour Party

Rob Lownie

7 mins

Bolloré & Bonnassies Can science prove that God exists?

Friday, October 24th Friday
Oct 24^th

Explainer 19:10

Beyond Meat is the dawn of a new era of meme investing

Gavin Haynes

Reaction 17:00

Trump’s war on the cartels is only just beginning

Tom Rogan

Analysis 15:15

NBA scandal reveals how gambling has corrupted the game

Oliver Bateman

Debate 11:55

Jess Phillips has betrayed grooming gangs survivors

She has increasingly come to resemble just another hectoring, middle-class Labour politician.

Julie Burchill

Reaction 09:00

Is Caerphilly just a hiccup in Farage’s Welsh takeover?

Henry Hill

Explainer 07:00

Islamic extremist network is spreading in Birmingham

David Rose

Thursday, October 23rd Thursday
Oct 23^rd

Analysis 19:00

New oil sanctions will not stop Russia’s war machine

Jennifer Kavanagh

Reaction 17:20

JD Vance’s Israel rebuke is a long-overdue reality check

Sohrab Ahmari

Explainer 14:00

Why Britain’s churches are disappearing

A cluster of thorny issues have recently made maintenance more difficult.

Gerry Lynch

Debate 11:30

Grooming gangs inquiry could be fatal blow to Starmerism

Jide Ehizele

Analysis 07:00

OpenAI’s new browser is a security risk

Andrew Orlowski

How the elites stole France The theft is the pinnacle of their complacency

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

5 mins

22 Oct

The Green Party’s shallow revolution Polanski will usher in Farageism

Jonny Ball

6 mins

24 Oct

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

Trump is coming for Venezuela He’s embraced a Neo-Monroe Doctrine

John Masko

8 mins

24 Oct

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters Cinema doesn’t need to be serious

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
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Mission Statement

Dispatch

The rising violence of Irish rebellion A volatile politics is taking to the streets

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

22 Oct

Wednesday, October 22nd Wednesday
Oct 22^nd

Reaction 19:30

Trump’s Argentinian beef plan sparks MAGA backlash

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 18:00

Will Muslim vote propel Zohran Mamdani to victory?

John Ketcham

Analysis 15:30

British Indians are shifting to Reform UK

Rakib Ehsan

Reaction 11:55

Louvre heist blame game ignores France’s decline

Scandals involving the nation's treasures are read as symbols of the wider political climate.

Francois Valentin

Online 10:30

Wikipedia’s falling traffic is an opening for new platforms

Ashley Rindsberg

Factcheck 07:00

Is King Charles overstating social media’s role in Manchester attack?

Simon Cottee

Tuesday, October 21st Tuesday
Oct 21^st

Debate 20:00

Zohran Mamdani is a neoliberal, not a socialist

Michael Lind

Reaction 18:30

Trans ID decline points to social contagion

Lisa Selin Davis

Analysis 16:20

Burqa ban would only harden Britain’s religious divisions

The decision to wear a niqab stands as a rejection of national culture.

Chris Bayliss

Reaction 13:30

AWS outage exposes fragility of our ‘smart tech’

Mary Harrington

Debate 09:45

Scrapping NCHIs is not the end of the thought police

Josephine Bartosch

Reaction 07:00

Surging membership turns Greens into counter-populist power

Peter Franklin

The progressive mindset has won We all think history is on our side

Ben Cobley

5 mins

23 Oct

Meet Japan’s Iron Lady Sanae Takaichi is polarising the nation

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

Will Rachel Reeves tackle the Bank? Its powers are undemocratic

Leah Downey

7 mins

23 Oct

The Battle of Hastings isn’t over Brits still ache for Anglo-Saxon England

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

UK

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25.10 2025

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

30.09 2025

NHS support for cousin marriage is a betrayal of women

29.09 2025

Has Starmer given up on winning back Reform voters?

The battle behind digital IDs

Toby Green

8 mins

Will Labour learn to love defence?

Paul Mason

7 mins

Emily Jashinsky John Bolton’s DOJ indictment

Monday, October 20th Monday
Oct 20^th

Analysis 20:00

Democrats’ anti-Trump strategy is running out of road

Swing voters simply aren’t swayed by talk of Trump's 'threats to democracy'.

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 16:00

Antidepressant craze won’t cure Gen Z sadness

Kristina Murkett

Analysis 13:30

Israel-Hamas clashes will not break the ceasefire

David Swift

Debate 10:45

No Kings protests can’t overlook workers

Ben Burgis

Explainer 07:00

Met investigation could be a reckoning for Prince Andrew

Dominic Adler

Sunday, October 19th Sunday
Oct 19^th

Debate 18:00

US Tomahawk refusal protects Ukraine from false hope

Jennifer Kavanagh

Analysis 16:00

Trump’s India strategy is a gift to China

What explains his actions? Wounded vanity.

Kapil Komireddi

Explainer 13:00

Who will survive the AI crash?

Gavin Haynes

Reaction 08:00

Prince Andrew’s title surrender reveals a ruthless Firm

Niall Gooch

How HR strangled Whitehall Civil servants waste time on trivialities

Ioan Phillips

6 mins

21 Oct

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct

What are Britain’s biohackers so afraid of? They crave control in a disordered world

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct

Peter Hitchens, Suzanne Moore, Reem Ibrahim & Michael Gove The Thatcher Debate

The rise of the multipolar world order

These Times

Why is London ignoring its grooming gangs?

Julie Bindel

7 mins

22 Oct

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

US

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28.09 2025

Scott Bessent’s warning is clear: Europe must defend itself

27.09 2025

Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to America’s oligarchs

26.09 2025

James Comey indictment: a dark shift in executive power

Why economists get Trumpism wrong

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

How American privacy died

Tiffany Jenkins

8 mins

Emily Jashinsky The Democrats’ tea party moment

review

On Jeffrey Epstein and the Marquis de Sade Pitiless libertinism is corrupting the West

Mary Harrington

7 mins

21 Oct

Saturday, October 18th Saturday
Oct 18^th

Review 18:30

After the Hunt is not an ‘anti-woke’ film

It is a tragedy about the human tendency to mistake moral language for moral action.

Ryan Zickgraf

News 15:00

Labour MP: the establishment parties have no connection to electorate

Rob Lownie

Debate 13:00

Tinkering with Motability won’t satisfy the bond markets

Tom Jones

Explainer 08:00

Chinese spying scandal is the end of old-school espionage

Bethany Elliott

Friday, October 17th Friday
Oct 17^th

Analysis 18:30

ICE raids are pushing both parties to the extreme

Emily Jashinsky

Online 17:00

Why Anglofuturism has gone mainstream

Tom Ough

Debate 14:00

BBC’s obsession with ‘relevance’ is killing great history TV

Dan Jackson

Dispatch 11:40

Palestine protesters disrupt LSE sexual violence event

Rape denial is common, but this is a new low.

Joan Smith

Debate 09:50

Maccabi Tel Aviv ban is a failure of multiculturalism

Jide Ehizele

Reaction 07:00

Major new poll puts anti-AfD firewall in peril

Peter Franklin

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct

Luke Rosiak Growing Left-wing violence

Trump’s Economic Revolution

These Times

MAGA’s Dark Abundance mission Will the movement take off?

Tom Ough

8 mins

22 Oct

Trump wants a war with blue cities And Chicago might give him one

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

Europe

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15.10 2025

Are Europe and China set for a chip war?

28.09 2025

Europe will regret seizing frozen Russian assets

26.09 2025

Sarkozy conviction is a win for French democracy

Giorgia Meloni’s patron saint of nationalism

Andrea Valentino

6 mins

Is Guinness really Irish?

Alexander Poots

6 mins

Prof. Eric Kaufmann Is this the end of trans?

Thursday, October 16th Thursday
Oct 16^th

Debate 18:30

Trump’s Venezuela plot will cause another border crisis

Branko Marcetic

Analysis 16:00

Britain needs new taxes — but not on the wealthy

Andrew O'Brien

Dispatch 13:00

In Gaza, we are now at the mercy of gang warfare

Hasan Jber

Reaction 10:00

Is female vanity behind the birth-rate crisis?

The supposed loss of the right kind of body can seem a price not worth paying.

Victoria Smith

News 07:00

Oxford Union President-elect: cancel culture worse after Charlie Kirk’s death

Rob Lownie

Wednesday, October 15th Wednesday
Oct 15^th

Online 21:30

Young Republican racist chat leak marks end of edgelord era

Oliver Bateman

Explainer 17:30

ChatGPT will kill our erotic imagination

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 15:30

Migrant integration is about more than fluent English

Treating it as a technical problem reduces social cohesion to a bureaucratic exercise.

Jide Ehizele

News 13:00

Trump: Hamas executions don’t bother me

Max Mitchell

Analysis 10:00

Are Europe and China set for a chip war?

Jack Smith

Debate 07:00

What Alan Davies and Gary Neville get wrong about Britain

Rakib Ehsan

Movies

The family values of the radical Left Two films display stolen virtue

Slavoj Žižek

8 mins

20 Oct

The last days of poptimism The new stars are old-school cool

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct

Christian nationalism’s godless heart The West is more important than faith

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct

Emily Jashinsky Obama’s podcast blunder

The Wars for Ukraine’s Resources

These Times

The splintering of British Jews The community is divided

David Rose

9 mins

21 Oct

flags

Nationalism has claimed the Valleys South Wales has been abandoned by Labour

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct

Culture

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18.09 2025

Jimmy Kimmel suspension confirms comedy belongs to the Right

13.09 2025

National Gallery’s modern art push is a disaster for the Tate

02.09 2025

Chris Columbus doesn’t understand why he disagrees with JK Rowling

Should we re-moralise art?

Mary Harrington

7 mins

Trump’s monumentalist aesthetic

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

6 mins

Sen. Cynthia Lummis Biden’s alleged spying campaign

Finance

The fall of the crypto-oligarchs The Bitcoin time bomb is ticking

John Rapley

6 mins

20 Oct

Tuesday, October 14th Tuesday
Oct 14^th

Reaction 23:45

Trump’s Argentina bailout is a high-stakes bet on Javier Milei

Emily Jashinsky

Debate 16:15

Deradicalising Gazans will be harder than any peace deal

Limor Simhony Philpott

Analysis 13:00

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

Eric Kaufmann

Debate 10:00

John Swinney underestimates Scotland’s resistance to immigration

The SNP conference tried to show that the country is more welcoming of immigrants than nasty England.

Iain Macwhirter

Analysis 07:00

Nigel Farage is abandoning Thatcherism

Jonny Ball

Monday, October 13th Monday
Oct 13^th

Dispatch 18:30

Hostage return hasn’t solved Israeli divisions

Tobias Gisle

Explainer 16:30

Antisemitism row splits feminist group

Nicole Lampert

Reaction 13:00

Is marijuana legalisation driving a rise in psychosis?

A false narrative has fostered a culture of denial among the stoner class.

Kevin Sabet

Explainer 10:00

China’s rare-earth gambit will backfire

Miquel Vila

Analysis 07:00

Can Gaza ceasefire inspire a deal in Ukraine?

Bethany Elliott

The humiliation of PG Wodehouse His genius can’t be reduced to IP

Sam Leith

4 mins

6 Oct

It’s still the economy, stupid Labour has a fatal blindspot

James Meadway

5 mins

3 Oct

Emily Jashinsky Trump’s Gaza peace deal

Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer

These Times

How Bill Bryson hoodwinked England We deserve more than twee nostalgia

Fred Sculthorp

7 mins

21 Oct

drugs

Why are kids snorting pink cocaine? It’s perfect for the Instagram generation

Max Daly

7 mins

2 Oct

War

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27.09 2025

Israel won’t accept Tony Blair’s Gaza plan

25.09 2025

Annexing the West Bank risks full-scale insurgency

24.09 2025

Does Trump really believe Ukraine can regain all its territory?

Will Putin call Nato’s bluff?

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

Starmer’s Palestine gamble

David Patrikarakos

5 mins

Emily Jashinsky MTG’s healthcare revolt

Sunday, October 12th Sunday
Oct 12^th

Reaction 21:30

Diane Keaton: the last transcendent actress

Charles McElwee

News 17:15

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Trump is not serving his voters

UnHerd Staff

Explainer 15:00

Bitcoin crash proves crypto is a rigged casino

All it takes is for one or two whales to cash out and the whole house falls down.

John Rapley

Analysis 13:00

Emmanuel Macron: the last gasp of Third Way politics

Peter Franklin

Reaction 08:00

Canterbury Cathedral art installation is a distraction from true faith

Rose Lyddon

Saturday, October 11th Saturday
Oct 11^th

News 17:30

Steve Bannon denounces Trump’s Qatari airbase plan

UnHerd Staff

Analysis 15:30

Colleges must stand with MIT against Trump’s funding deal

Michael Hurley

Reaction 13:00

In defence of university kink clubs

An environment where one can openly explore the intertwined dynamics of pain and pleasure is invaluable.

Rowan Pelling

Debate 08:00

Keir Starmer can’t save Britain’s rural pubs

Niall Gooch

Justice

The Kazakh oligarch who fooled Britain The UK is a haven for foreign tycoons

Mark Hollingsworth

5 mins

19 Oct

Who killed the East End mobster? Gangsterism couldn’t survive globalisation

Dominic Adler

5 mins

1 Oct

How Evil is normalised It is not enough to avert one’s eyes

Jacob Howland

6 mins

30 Sep

Emily Jashinsky The bipartisan Epstein cover-up

Germany: “Independence” from America and Rise of the Far Right

These Times

Will Israel’s hardliners win? The nation must choose between two futures

Omer Bartov

9 mins

20 Oct

Literary biographies are on life support Who cares about Tennyson today?

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

29 Sep

Faith

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26.09 2025

Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

23.09 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

22.09 2025

Charlie Kirk funeral fuses Christian mercy with MAGA populism

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Faith is the new Successor Ideology

Tim DeRoche

6 mins

Steven Pinker Questions that shouldn’t be asked

Friday, October 10th Friday
Oct 10^th

Debate 20:00

Conservatives are taking the wrong lesson from Jimmy Kimmel’s decline

Oliver Bateman

Analysis 18:15

Trump could ignite chaos if he uses the Insurrection Act

Kyle Sammin

Reaction 16:15

Why María Corina Machado deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Consistency is a rare currency in politics, but she has made it her trademark.

Paola Romero

News 13:15

Neil Kinnock: death of Tory Party would harm Labour

Rob Lownie

Debate 10:00

EU doubles down on gender ideology with self-ID plan

Josephine Bartosch

Reaction 07:00

Will Reform UK ever be the party of business?

Henry Hill

Thursday, October 9th Thursday
Oct 9^th

Debate 18:30

Katie Porter shows why Democrats keep alienating GOP voters

Zaid Jilani

Reaction 16:00

How the Gaza ceasefire could fall apart

Many fear Trump’s optimism about the conflict’s end is misplaced.

David Rose and Ali Hamedani

Explainer 12:00

Scrapping stamp duty will alienate Northern Tories

Andrew O'Brien

Analysis 10:00

Gaza ceasefire could be Trump’s greatest victory yet

Tom Rogan

Debate 07:00

Lenny Henry’s reparations demand ignores black British history

Jide Ehizele

John Boyne refuses to be cancelled Britain’s literati betrayed him

Julie Bindel

5 mins

26 Sep

Syria’s future is sectarian Religious minorities feel threatened

Tam Hussein

8 mins

25 Sep

Emily Jashinsky Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl backlash

Trump, Putin and Europe’s Historic Crisis

These Times

Caerphilly is crumbling to Reform The town has lost all hope

Brad Evans

5 mins

20 Oct

Donald Trump’s war on wind He is out for revenge

Alexander Nazaryan

5 mins

24 Sep

Society

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29.09 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

28.09 2025

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

25.09 2025

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

Why slogans won’t change the world

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

Paul Kingsnorth: How to fight the Machine

Freddie Sayers

15 mins

Emily Jashinsky Trump’s government overhaul

The future of feminism is childcare Focus on the work-motherhood conflict

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

23 Sep

DPRK

Could a woman rule North Korea? Kim Jong Un’s daughter could be next in line

Elizabeth Norton

6 mins

22 Sep

Westminster’s China blind spot Elite hypocrisy has led to meltdown

Dominic Adler

5 mins

17 Oct

Lionel Shriver The rise in Left-wing violence

Trump’s Tariff War

These Times

Can Big Tech save Northumberland? Don’t expect a second coal boom

Dan Jackson

5 mins

19 Sep