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Debate 1h

It’s time to end the tyranny of service charge

It’s time to end the tyranny of service charge

Richard Crampton-Platt

Analysis 4h

King Charles is the last statesman of a vanishing world

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Watching Charles was like viewing a classic BBC adaptation from 50 years ago.

Niall Gooch

Tuesday, April 28th Tuesday
Apr 28^th

Reaction 21:30

UAE break from Opec signals new era of energy independence

Kathryn Porter

Analysis 18:00

Iran is racing against a shrinking de-escalation window

Susanne Mundschenk

Explainer 15:00

Modern therapy is erasing responsibility

Modern therapy is erasing responsibility

Stella O'Malley

Online 12:40

Cole Allen wasn’t radicalized by Bluesky

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The platform is monocultural because monoculture is what its arrivals were shopping for.

Katherine Dee

Reaction 10:00

Friedrich Merz’s Iran intervention won’t discourage Trump

Daniel DePetris

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Attack of the killer centrists

Political Violence

Attack of the killer centrists Deranged moderates are taking up arms

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:57am

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:02am

My night with the Republican power gays

My night with the Republican power gays

John Maier

6 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:01am

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement Middle-class crims are the worst

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:02am

My night with the Republican power gays

My night with the Republican power gays Trump’s new elite turned up for Grindr

John Maier

6 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:01am

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement Middle-class crims are the worst

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:02am

My night with the Republican power gays

My night with the Republican power gays Trump’s new elite turned up for Grindr

John Maier

6 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:01am

From the UK edition

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Tuesday, April 28th Tuesday
Apr 28^th

Debate 07:00

Shabana Mahmood should negotiate with the Taliban

Rakib Ehsan

Monday, April 27th Monday
Apr 27^th

Debate 11:50

Are the London Tube strikes failing?

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The rise of hybrid working reveals a more atomised and fragmented labour force.

Philip Cunliffe

Sunday, April 26th Sunday
Apr 26^th

Explainer 13:00

Epsom protests show how quickly distrust turns into disorder

Felix Pope

Analysis 08:00

Zack Polanski is repeating the fiction of Scottish victimhood

Iain Macwhirter

Saturday, April 25th Saturday
Apr 25^th

Reaction 16:00

Comparing assisted suicide to gay marriage is deeply misguided

Adam James Pollock

Friday, April 24th Friday
Apr 24^th

Reaction 10:55

Reform UK’s curriculum shake-up is hollow patriotism

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This will only mirror the politicised teaching it is trying to replace.

Ralph Leonard

Explainer 07:00

Surging business costs threaten UK’s economic stability

Andrew O'Brien

Thursday, April 23rd Thursday
Apr 23^rd

Analysis 10:00

Is Zack Polanski about to purge the Green Party?

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, April 21st Tuesday
Apr 21^st

Analysis 07:00

An unemployment crisis could break Labour

Andrew O'Brien

Saturday, April 18th Saturday
Apr 18^th

Reaction 13:00

Nigel Farage shouldn’t let Bromley leave London

Nigel Farage shouldn’t let Bromley leave London

Niall Gooch

Morgan McSweeney’s inside job

Politics

Morgan McSweeney’s inside job Labour may never recover

Jonny Ball

6 mins

Apr 29 2026 - 12:04am

Champions League is the people’s theater

Champions League is the people’s theater Football combines artistry with mass devotion

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Apr 28 2026 - 12:01am

How Britain gave America the ick

How Britain gave America the ick I still remember the heady romance

Simon Winchester

6 mins

Apr 27 2026 - 12:02am

Should we pity civil servants?

Should we pity civil servants? Whitehall’s allure is fading

Josiah Gogarty

7 mins

Apr 24 2026 - 12:02am

Watch & listen

UnHerd Academy Nina Allan on J. G. Ballard

Ian Leslie & Helen Thompson The Beatles: How did they do it?

The Econoclasts Europe is sleepwalking into industrial irrelevance

The Econoclasts Hormuz and the end of petro-dollar hegemony

Aris Roussinos Orbán’s defeat is not a liberal victory

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

Israel’s death penalty shame

Israel’s death penalty shame

Omer Bartov

6 mins

Is Polymarket a threat to democracy?

Is Polymarket a threat to democracy?

John Masko

8 mins

Dr. Iain McGilchrist How to escape Left-brain thinking

Monday, April 27th Monday
Apr 27^th

Reaction 21:15

Jimmy Kimmel proves the White House can’t take a joke

Jimmy Kimmel proves the White House can’t take a joke

Angel Eduardo

Reaction 16:15

Why shouldn’t MPs drink on the job?

Rowan Pelling

Explainer 10:00

Cole Allen: another shooter shaped by elite overproduction

Cole Allen: another shooter shaped by elite overproduction

Oliver Bateman

Reaction 07:00

Keir Starmer should not be afraid to sack Rachel Reeves

Richard Johnson

Cole Tomas Allen is a postmodern symptom

Cole Tomas Allen is a postmodern symptom We’re starved for grand narratives

Sohrab Ahmari

6 mins

Apr 28 2026 - 12:02am

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

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

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

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

John Bolton Trump should finish the job

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The horrible history of the Special Relationship

The horrible history of the Special Relationship 1776 never ended

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Apr 28 2026 - 12:04am

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

Our Mission

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

Mission Statement

Are we all conspiracy theorists now?

Trump assassination attempt

Are we all conspiracy theorists now? The Washington gunman has sparked paranoia

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

Apr 26 2026 - 5:10pm

Sunday, April 26th Sunday
Apr 26^th

Online 16:00

Piers Morgan’s Russell Brand interview perfectly straddled old and new media

Samuel Rubinstein

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

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

Suburban sadism

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

The Econoclasts Iran left Trump with no alternative

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How financialization broke Britain

How financialization broke Britain We bet the house — and lost

Dominik A. Leusder

10 mins

Apr 28 2026 - 12:00am

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

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

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15.02 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

10.01 2026

Banning X will not make anyone safer

11.12 2025

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label

How Salford made modern Britain

How Salford made modern Britain

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Farewell to England's showmen

Farewell to England's showmen

Wessie du Toit

8 mins

Debate: This house believes assisted dying is wrong

Saturday, April 25th Saturday
Apr 25^th

Debate 18:30

Impeachment is a political trap for Democrats

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Legalism and lawfare are poor substitutes for political contestation.

Sam Kahn

Debate 13:00

Germany's military expansion won't convince young people to enlist

Germany's military expansion won't convince young people to enlist

Katja Hoyer

Explainer 08:00

EU’s €90 billion Ukraine loan masks growing divisions in Brussels

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Volodymyr Zelensky is smart enough not to fall for any symbolic promises.

Wolfgang Munchau

Friday, April 24th Friday
Apr 24^th

Explainer 18:30

Is DEI really in decline?

John Murawski

Reaction 17:00

Trump’s Falklands threat ignores lessons of 1982 war

Richard Vinen

Analysis 12:30

Marijuana reclassification is a surrender to Big Weed

Marijuana reclassification is a surrender to Big Weed

Josh Appel

Starmer versus the Blob

Starmer versus the Blob Weak politicians need a scapegoat

Lawrence Newport

6 mins

Apr 26 2026 - 12:40am

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

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

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

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Europe is about to get much weaker

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Will Trump cause a Greater Depression?

Will Trump cause a Greater Depression? Dollar swaps are a bad sign

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Apr 27 2026 - 12:03am

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

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

Science

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25.11 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

01.10 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

30.09 2025

AI companions are destroying human relationships

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

John Maier

7 mins

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Major General Randy Manner Hegseth will be tried at The Hague

The sexual revolution was always a failure

Gender

The sexual revolution was always a failure Alice Munro was a case study

Valerie Stivers

13 mins

Apr 25 2026 - 12:00am

Thursday, April 23rd Thursday
Apr 23^rd

Review 18:00

Marc Andreessen’s MTS shows doomscrolling is not a business model

James Billot

Online 16:00

‘Microlooting’: the latest example of elite moral confusion

‘Microlooting’: the latest example of elite moral confusion

Santiago Vidal Calvo

Reaction 12:30

Are doctors overdiagnosing depression?

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Depression is not polio: it can’t be cured with a vaccine and a public awareness campaign.

Carolyn D. Gorman and Esme Vroom

Debate 07:00

Keep activism out of Shakespeare

Oliver Bennett

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

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

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

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Econoclasts Live: Who will dominate the New World Disorder?

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Requiem for a cig

Requiem for a cig The smoking ban is Cromwellian

Julie Burchill

6 mins

Apr 27 2026 - 12:01am

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

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Faith

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26.09 2025

The 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

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Susan Pickard

6 mins

Will the Church of England rise again?

Will the Church of England rise again?

Tim Wyatt

12 mins

Joe Kent Why Trump went to war

Wednesday, April 22nd Wednesday
Apr 22^nd

Debate 18:30

Southern Poverty Law Center indictment shows danger of progressive overreach

Emily Jashinsky

Reaction 16:30

JK Rowling’s invitation to The Rest Is Politics is too little, too late

JK Rowling’s invitation to The Rest Is Politics is too little, too late

Joan Smith

Explainer 13:00

Why young men can’t escape the family home

Josiah Gogarty

Factcheck 10:00

Is Joe Rogan too confident about ibogaine?

Kevin Sabet

Reaction 07:00

Alex Jones and Infowars are casualties of the conspiracy machine

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Within this digital fandom, victory is not the goal.

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, April 21st Tuesday
Apr 21^st

Explainer 20:45

Apple lost its vision under Tim Cook

David Auerbach

Explainer 16:00

The true Lori Chavez-DeRemer scandal: her empty record

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 13:00

Starmer’s legal worldview is a betrayal of the SAS

Starmer’s legal worldview is a betrayal of the SAS

Chris Bayliss

Debate 10:00

Fines are the only way to uphold university free speech

Samuel Rubinstein

A new Iraq war is coming

A new Iraq war is coming Tehran is rallying its proxies

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

Apr 24 2026 - 12:01am

Why Human Design is perfect for our age It’s religion for the LinkedIn class

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

Oct 13 2025 - 12:00am

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

Oct 10 2025 - 12:00am

Shashank Joshi The age of drone warfare has begun

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Has Michael Jackson been forgiven?

weekend culture

Has Michael Jackson been forgiven? The divide may be racial

Matt Feeney

8 mins

Apr 26 2026 - 12:45am

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Oct 9 2025 - 11:59pm

War

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13.04 2026

Does Kemi Badenoch understand Britain’s military dysfunction?

20.03 2026

US is spending $2 billion a day on Iran war

14.03 2026

Poll: majority of Britons think World War III likely in next decade

Britain’s chance to escape America

Britain’s chance to escape America

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Trump is trapped by the logic of war

Trump is trapped by the logic of war

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

Helen Thompson Was closing the Strait of Hormuz part of Trump’s plan?

When America’s rot reached my doorstep

Broken Democracy

When America’s rot reached my doorstep It’s a new age of corruption

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

Apr 23 2026 - 12:00am

Monday, April 20th Monday
Apr 20^th

Reaction 20:00

Obama is anointing Mamdani as his Democratic successor

Obama is anointing Mamdani as his Democratic successor

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 16:00

Medical establishment wakes up to the harms of Alzheimer’s drugs

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Years of optimistic headlines have sold false hope to patients.

Margaret McCartney and Deborah Cohen

Analysis 13:00

Trump is squandering his immigration legacy

Fred Bauer

Debate 10:00

Why hasn’t group behind antisemitic London attacks been proscribed?

Limor Simhony Philpott

Analysis 07:00

China, not Epstein, is the real Mandelson scandal

China, not Epstein, is the real Mandelson scandal

Luke de Pulford

Trump’s monumentalistic aesthetic He wants to memorialize America's greatness

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

6 mins

Sep 23 2025 - 12:01am

Estonian opioids are heading for Britain Nitazenes are far deadlier than fentanyl

Michal Kranz

11 mins

Sep 21 2025 - 12:10am

The Econoclasts Russia and China’s Iran windfall

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

When gender medicine crashed out

When gender medicine crashed out Secret WPATH videos open a woke time capsule

Benjamin Ryan

6 mins

Apr 24 2026 - 12:34am

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Justin Smith-Ruiu

8 mins

Sep 12 2025 - 12:00am

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

The return of Britain’s slums

The return of Britain’s slums

Mary Harrington

7 mins

The grim truth about remigration

The grim truth about remigration

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

Prof. Robert Pape Is Iran winning the war?

Sunday, April 19th Sunday
Apr 19^th

Explainer 18:00

Cash makes a comeback as Europeans prepare for war

Susanne Mundschenk

Analysis 16:00

Jordan Bardella is splitting from Marine Le Pen

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His onetime mentor is a weight he may not want to carry forever.

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Reaction 13:00

The Guardian is late to the party on sex-based reporting

The Guardian is late to the party on sex-based reporting

Victoria Smith

Explainer 08:00

Epsom rape case exposes falling trust in police

Dominic Adler

Saturday, April 18th Saturday
Apr 18^th

Debate 16:00

Is Hampshire College closure the endpoint of progressive academia?

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Society can accommodate only so many institutions that relentlessly critique dominant systems of power.

John Murawski

The Paris Agreement was a fantasy

The Paris Agreement was a fantasy Climate catastrophism has backfired

Thomas Fazi

7 mins

Apr 22 2026 - 12:02am

Faith

The war for China's soul Xi sees Christianity as spiritual opium

Christopher Harding

5 mins

Sep 1 2025 - 12:00am

Trump’s climate policy is class warfare MAGA wants to own the libs

Matt Huber

5 mins

Jul 30 2025 - 12:00am

Rowan Williams: What are Christian Politics?

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Russell Brand: spray-on Christian He still worships himself

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Apr 24 2026 - 12:03am

War

Trouble in the National Guard Troop morale has rarely been lower

Malcom Kyeyune

9 mins

Jun 26 2025 - 12:03am