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What's happening today beneath the surface

Review 4h

Barack Obama’s podcast is a liberal comfort blanket

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The dialectic of the guests doesn't map onto the deep antagonisms of our current moment.

Matthew Gasda

Reaction 7h

Trust is breaking down between Britain’s police and the courts

Chris Bayliss

Debate 10h

Cosmetic surgery is the new self-harm

Kristina Murkett

Analysis 13h

Don’t write off Reform UK just yet

Don’t write off Reform UK just yet

Peter Franklin

Debate 16h

Bringing booze back to football won't make it more fun

Philip Patrick

Thursday, September 24 Thursday
Sep 24^th

Analysis 18:00

The rise of the Potemkin Democrat

The rise of the Potemkin Democrat

James Billot

Reaction 16:00

Why men are dominating the Booker Prize again

Philip Hensher

Explainer 13:00

Germany’s far-Left takes inspiration from AOC and Mamdani

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Half of Berlin's under-25s — and a similar proportion of the city’s 400,000 Muslim population — voted for Die Linke.

Wolfgang Munchau

Debate 10:00

Scotland’s liberal drugs policy is driving addiction

Scotland’s liberal drugs policy is driving addiction

Iain Macwhirter

Reaction 07:00

Burnham’s disinformation unit could repeat Covid-era censorship

Jake Hurfurt

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‘AI extinction’ is the new Covid panic

Doomers

‘AI extinction’ is the new Covid panic Rushed regulation is bad regulation

Michael Lind

8 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:02am

Xi will win the AI war

Geopolitics

Xi will win the AI war

William Matthews

7 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

parenting

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

Xi will win the AI war

Xi will win the AI war Liberalism can't control itself

William Matthews

7 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

Low-trust society breeds weak kids Busybodies make mothering impossible

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

Xi will win the AI war

Geopolitics

Xi will win the AI war Liberalism can't control itself

William Matthews

7 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

parenting

Low-trust society breeds weak kids Busybodies make mothering impossible

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:01am

From the UK edition

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Wednesday, September 23 Wednesday
Sep 23^rd

Reaction 10:30

Is it time for the Lib Dems to ditch Davey?

Josephine Bartosch

Tuesday, September 22 Tuesday
Sep 22^nd

Debate 16:15

Mitchell and Webb blackface censorship is cultural cowardice

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If comedy were in rude health — and surely being rude is part of that — it would be different. But it isn’t.

Simon Evans

Monday, September 21 Monday
Sep 21^st

Analysis 17:30

Zack Polanski should take inspiration from the German Greens

Rakib Ehsan

Debate 10:00

What Rishi Sunak gets wrong about Britishness

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, September 16 Wednesday
Sep 16^th

Reaction 16:15

Scrapping inheritance tax is a zombie Tory policy

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The Conservative Party is stuck in a rut, defending a status quo that very few people want.

Andrew O'Brien

Tuesday, September 15 Tuesday
Sep 15^th

Analysis 07:00

Unionist shame is opening the door to separatism

David Jeffery

Sunday, September 13 Sunday
Sep 13^th

Analysis 13:00

Kemi Badenoch may have found Labour’s Achilles’ heel

Peter Franklin

Friday, September 11 Friday
Sep 11^th

Debate 07:00

Labour’s tourist tax is a betrayal of British cities

Richard Crampton-Platt

Wednesday, September 9 Wednesday
Sep 9^th

Analysis 10:00

Investor exodus is hitting the UK economy

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, September 7 Monday
Sep 7^th

Reaction 13:00

Andy Burnham’s economic optimism is already unraveling

David Jeffery

The English Question

The English Question Ethnic identity has become political

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

Sep 25 2026 - 12:04am

How to solve the debt crisis

Bond Market

How to solve the debt crisis Can we create stable demand for UK bonds?

Jagjit Chadha

5 mins

Sep 24 2026 - 12:03am

Will the Gulf war claim another victim?

Geopolitics

Will the Gulf war claim another victim? Backing Saudi could strand Burnham

Malise Ruthven

6 mins

Sep 23 2026 - 12:02am

The problem with paedo-hunters

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The problem with paedo-hunters Chris Hansen inspired a generation of vigilantes

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

Sep 23 2026 - 12:01am

Watch & listen

Nick Bostrom The truth about the AI panic

The Econoclasts The centre-Left’s betrayal destroyed Europe

The Econoclasts The AI extinction myth is a scam

The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism

Helen Andrews Are women to blame for woke?

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 Burnham can learn from Bismarck

What Burnham can learn from Bismarck

Wessie du Toit

7 mins

Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office

Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office

Ian Proud

9 mins

Aris Roussinos Inside the war for Piddington

Wednesday, September 23 Wednesday
Sep 23^rd

Analysis 18:00

GOP war chest is Trump’s secret midterm weapon

Michael Baharaeen

Explainer 16:00

America and China are stuck in different AI races

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Securing ASI before its American rival has not been the priority for the Chinese regime.

John Rapley

Debate 12:30

Kamala Harris alliance is a gamble for Abdul El-Sayed

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 07:00

Andy Burnham is wise to avoid a fight with Trump

Andy Burnham is wise to avoid a fight with Trump

John Oxley

Why Texas is at war with Islam

Identity

Why Texas is at war with Islam Mass legal migration has left a bitter taste

Alicia Nieves

8 mins

Sep 24 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

The Econoclasts Economic stagnation has broken German democracy

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

What the West forgets about China

State visit

What the West forgets about China East and West are civilizational peers

David Lloyd Dusenbury

8 mins

Sep 24 2026 - 12:02am

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.

Mission Statement

Once upon a time in David Ellison’s Hollywood

Once upon a time in David Ellison’s Hollywood Tinseltown is getting asset-stripped

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

Sep 23 2026 - 12:03am

Tuesday, September 22 Tuesday
Sep 22^nd

Reaction 18:15

Taylor Lorenz: the MrBeast of internet journalism

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 13:10

Muslim interest groups are reshaping Britain’s police

Dominic Adler

Explainer 10:00

Trump is right to avoid a war with the Houthis

Trump is right to avoid a war with the Houthis

Daniel DePetris

Reaction 07:00

Specialist rape courts can’t become another broken promise

Joan Smith

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

Wolfgang Munchau The AfD momentum is unstoppable

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Big Burnham is watching you

Censorship

Big Burnham is watching you The surveillance blob is growing

Dominic Adler

6 mins

Sep 24 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

The cinema of 9/11

The cinema of 9/11

David Thomson

6 mins

MR James still haunts England

MR James still haunts England

Alexander Poots

6 mins

The Econoclasts Iceland has exposed Europe’s unity illusion

Monday, September 21 Monday
Sep 21^st

Debate 22:00

Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn’t understand school inequality

Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn’t understand school inequality

Neetu Arnold

Reaction 13:00

California misgendering ruling is a victory for free speech

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Punishing people for naming what they perceive to be reality is clearly authoritarian.

Ben Appel

Analysis 07:00

Is latest AfD breakthrough the end of Friedrich Merz?

Is latest AfD breakthrough the end of Friedrich Merz?

William Nattrass

Sunday, September 20 Sunday
Sep 20^th

Reaction 17:00

Strikes on Moscow will infuriate Trump

Bethany Elliott

Explainer 13:00

The problem with the Anglo-Scotch whiskey war

Adam James Pollock

Debate 08:00

Netflix is turning serial killers into heartthrobs

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Audiences still crave this gory, gossipy, grimly titillating underworld.

Kristina Murkett

The United Nations: a useful failure

International Law

The United Nations: a useful failure It’s a global stage, not a world government

Heather Penatzer

7 mins

Sep 22 2026 - 1:09am

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 America is spiralling towards a debt crisis

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The problem with paedo-hunters

film

The problem with paedo-hunters Chris Hansen inspired a generation of vigilantes

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

Sep 23 2026 - 12:01am

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?

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

Pippa Malmgren

8 mins

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Patrick McGee

4 mins

Simon Sebag Montefiore What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Mark Carney's EU delusion

Political dinosaurs

Mark Carney's EU delusion His globalized world is dead and buried

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

Sep 21 2026 - 12:03am

Saturday, September 19 Saturday
Sep 19^th

Analysis 16:00

Trump’s Greenland deal is necessary protection against foreign threats

Tom Rogan

Reaction 13:00

Muslim cleric’s award withdrawal shows limits of liberal Christianity

Muslim cleric’s award withdrawal shows limits of liberal Christianity

Niall Gooch

Analysis 08:00

Can China restrain the Houthis?

Susanne Mundschenk

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

Richard D. Wolff The decline of the US empire

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

AI: a very human tragedy

Doomsday

AI: a very human tragedy Mankind will always overreach

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

Sep 23 2026 - 12:00am

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

How Tarot re-enchanted my life

How Tarot re-enchanted my life

Rob Doyle

6 mins

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

The Econoclasts Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

Friday, September 18 Friday
Sep 18^th

Reaction 18:00

The contradictions at the heart of Hasan Piker’s worldview

The contradictions at the heart of Hasan Piker’s worldview

Emily Jashinsky

Exclusive 16:00

UnHerd arrives in New York

UnHerd arrives in New York

UnHerd Staff

Explainer 13:00

Will Brazil’s Bolsonaros pull off a Trump-style comeback?

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A strange complacency seems to reign in Lula’s inner circle.

Nick Burns

Analysis 10:00

A Tory-Reform pact is further away than ever

Peter Franklin

Debate 08:00

Earl Spencer misunderstands Princess Diana’s true legacy

Earl Spencer misunderstands Princess Diana’s true legacy

Sarah Ditum

Thursday, September 17 Thursday
Sep 17^th

Review 18:00

Daily Wire’s anti-Islam film is Right-wing wish fulfillment

Nikos Mohammadi

Reaction 16:15

Trump cannot bend the Fed to his will

John Rapley

Online 13:00

Reform UK’s small boats game is a sign of shifting Overton window

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A critical read might interpret Small Boat Scramble as the worst kind of slopulism.

Mary Harrington

Debate 10:00

The Iran war is driving a re-realignment

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 07:00

I’m a grooming gang survivor. This is why Rory Stewart is wrong

I’m a grooming gang survivor. This is why Rory Stewart is wrong

Fiona Goddard

Ed Miliband’s Jewish agony

Weekend Analysis

Ed Miliband’s Jewish agony His every word has consequences

Howard Jacobson

5 mins

Sep 19 2026 - 12:10am

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

Ron Paul The US bailout machine is spiralling

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Russia’s plot to break Nato

War

Russia’s plot to break Nato Gradual escalation will sow discord

Michal Kranz

8 mins

Sep 22 2026 - 12:04am

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?

9/11 could happen again

9/11 could happen again

William T. Vollmann

11 mins

Get ready for the Trump Slump

Get ready for the Trump Slump

John Rapley

6 mins

Kathleen Stock The scandal of Jason Arday

The future of the Left will be decided in Holborn

The future of the Left will be decided in Holborn Burnham’s coalition must reckon with Polanski

Jonny Ball

6 mins

Sep 19 2026 - 12:05am

Wednesday, September 16 Wednesday
Sep 16^th

Analysis 18:30

Anthropic’s AI slowdown plan is a gift to China

Elliot Leavy

Analysis 13:00

Is the Democrats’ blue wave an illusion?

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 10:30

Trade unions are undermining Labour’s trans position

Joan Smith

Reaction 07:00

Lucy Letby inquiry has the wrong prescription for the NHS

Lucy Letby inquiry has the wrong prescription for the NHS

Druin Burch

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

The Econoclasts China’s hidden economic crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

One Piece: a cultural superpower

Japan

One Piece: a cultural superpower Manga saved Japan’s reputation

Christopher Harding

6 mins

Sep 22 2026 - 12:01am

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

Aposhcalypse Now

Aposhcalypse Now

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Liberalism can't tame lust

Liberalism can't tame lust

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

The Econoclasts Andy Burnham is misjudging Britain’s real crisis

Tuesday, September 15 Tuesday
Sep 15^th

Analysis 18:00

Gavin Newsom has a bigger problem than Kamala Harris

James Billot

Reaction 16:00

Sydney Sweeney’s Novig advert sells sex, not sport

Sydney Sweeney’s Novig advert sells sex, not sport

Victoria Smith

Debate 13:00

Israel’s defenders have made Macklemore a free speech martyr

Ralph Leonard

Reaction 10:00

Labour’s school meals policy is a failure of cultural norms

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There is nothing stopping a child from fleeing the gates at four o’clock for the nearest Greggs.

Richard Crampton-Platt

Monday, September 14 Monday
Sep 14^th

Explainer 19:00

Mark Carney is better off allying with America than Europe

Hina Husain

Reaction 17:00

Farewell Judge Judy, America’s last great moralist

Farewell Judge Judy, America’s last great moralist

Ryan Zickgraf

Debate 13:00

Le Pen-proofing the EU won’t stop the populist wave

William Nattrass

Explainer 10:00

Will the AI labs let inspectors in?

Tom Ough

Analysis 07:15

Sweden election shows power of competent conservatism

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The legacy Right can still contain anti-establishment parties, even from within government.

Johan Wennström

The End Times are nigh — again

The End Times are nigh — again Leftist doom prophecies distract from the real problems

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

Sep 19 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

Ross Barkan Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why do mothers kill their children?

Why do mothers kill their children? Infanticide is shockingly common

Olympia Campbell

8 mins

Sep 21 2026 - 12:02am

Nobel peace prize

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Oct 9 2025 - 11:59pm