Budget

Rachel Reeves has a confidence problem The bond markets can smell fear

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

17 Nov

Gen Z

The empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’ Rama Duwaji’s shallow art is very 2020

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

17 Nov


Bias

Why the BBC was never impartial Not all beliefs should be respected

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Nov


Gen Z

The empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’ Rama Duwaji’s shallow art is very 2020

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

17 Nov


Bias

Why the BBC was never impartial Not all beliefs should be respected

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Nov


America

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

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov


Weekend Essay

How woke and anti-woke erase blackness We must see race, but not be ruled by it

Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury

8 mins

15 Nov

Gen Z

The empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’ Rama Duwaji’s shallow art is very 2020

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

17 Nov

Bias

Why the BBC was never impartial Not all beliefs should be respected

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Nov


America

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

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov

Dispatch

The San Francisco school sacrificed to equity Progressives are ignoring the poor

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov


Weekend Essay

How woke and anti-woke erase blackness We must see race, but not be ruled by it

Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury

8 mins

15 Nov


civil war

Who comes after Starmer? Labour has no good options

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

14 Nov

Dispatch

Getting a kick out of amateur football Fans dodge sheep invasions and geese droppings

Ross Davies

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov

Review

Meet the new gay dissidents The queer alliance is splintering

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

5 mins

14 Nov


review

When did Springsteen stop making great albums? ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ holds a clue

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 Nov

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov

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
Weekend Analysis

Keir Starmer: last of the technocrats The governing caste is losing its grip

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

15 Nov


The Right

How Trump remade conservatism No, he’s not George Bush 2.0

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

Mayoral election

Will America elect a socialist president? Mamdani could pave the way for AOC

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov


Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

deregulation

Nigel Farage: crypto bro He predicts another ‘Big Bang’

Alys Key

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov

Weekend Spotlight

The EU’s new censorship machine The Democracy Shield will police speech

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

5 mins

15 Nov


Review

John Updike’s carnal Christianity He knew the hymn beneath the hard-on

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov

social scene

Why London’s literati can’t write Egalitarianism doesn’t produce great work

Rose Lyddon

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov


neutrality

Inside the BBC’s HR problem Young ideologues can’t tolerate wrongthink

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Nov

Halloween

Do the Irish believe in ghosts? Collective trauma feeds the supernatural

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct

Feminism

What Margaret Atwood got wrong ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ never happened

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

14 Nov


review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

Elections

Has the Dutch far-Right peaked? Geert Wilders faces a reckoning

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct


new right

Is Reform going too Christian? James Orr is Farage’s religious Svengali

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

12 Nov

Peace Talks

Trump still can’t resist Putin Russia’s oil wealth beckons

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

6 mins

28 Oct

Assisted Dying

I changed my mind about killing myself But support the right to choose

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

8 mins

14 Nov


Deindustrialisation

Pittsburgh vs Cleveland: a tale of two Rust Belt cities One thrives while the other despairs

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

Culture

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

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct


Monarchy

Andrew: the half-buffoon prince Andrew should have studied Shakespeare

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

5 mins

11 Nov

Plutocracy

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

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

Interview

The prophet of gender madness Dr. Paul McHugh returns from the cold 

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

7 mins

13 Nov


review

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

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

populism

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

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct


Middle East

Does Syria have a future? The Kurds still mistrust al-Sharaa

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

7 mins

11 Nov

Television

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

10 Years On

The Bataclan massacre still stalks France Sectarian rage won’t be soothed by more memorials

Andrew Hussey

Andrew Hussey

5 mins

12 Nov


Patriotism

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

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

75 years on

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

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct


impartiality

Can the BBC be saved? The next DG risks being the last

Robin Aitken

Robin Aitken

4 mins

10 Nov

Dispatch

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

Fin Carter

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct

Politics

Where the Labour Right went wrong Blair’s heirs represent a broken status quo

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

12 Nov


dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

belief system

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct


COP30

China’s new green order It sees climate policy as colonial leverage

Elizabeth Lindley

Elizabeth Lindley

5 mins

10 Nov

premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct

Religion

The faith in our genes Evolution explains worship

Tim DeRoche

Tim DeRoche

15 mins

11 Nov


Protests

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

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

monoculture

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

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct


review

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologues

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

5 mins

7 Nov

Religion

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

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct