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The truth about the AI panic

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What's happening today beneath the surface

Thursday, 24 September Thursday
24 Sep^th

Debate 18:00

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 is taking inspiration from AOC and Mamdani

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Around 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

Wednesday, 23 September Wednesday
23 Sep^rd

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

Reaction 10:30

Is it time for the Lib Dems to ditch Davey?

Josephine Bartosch

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

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The English Question

Nationalism

The English Question Ethnic identity has become political

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:04am

Xi will win the AI war

Geopolitics

Xi will win the AI war

William Matthews

7 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

parenting

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Xi will win the AI war

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

William Matthews

7 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

Low-trust society breeds weak kids Busybodies make mothering impossible

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

‘AI extinction’ is the new Covid panic

Doomers

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

Michael Lind

8 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

How to solve the debt crisis

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

Jagjit Chadha

5 mins

24 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

Xi will win the AI war

Geopolitics

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

William Matthews

7 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Low-trust society breeds weak kids

parenting

Low-trust society breeds weak kids Busybodies make mothering impossible

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

‘AI extinction’ is the new Covid panic

Doomers

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

Michael Lind

8 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

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

24 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

From the US edition

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Wednesday, 23 September Wednesday
23 Sep^rd

Analysis 18:00

GOP war chest is Trump’s secret midterm weapon

Michael Baharaeen

Friday, 18 September Friday
18 Sep^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

Thursday, 17 September Thursday
17 Sep^th

Review 18:00

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

Nikos Mohammadi

Sunday, 13 September Sunday
13 Sep^th

Debate 18:30

Why can’t the Right accept Indian-American Longhorn fans?

Richard Hanania

Thursday, 10 September Thursday
10 Sep^th

Analysis 18:00

It’s time for Trump to dump Kushner and Witkoff

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Their partnership has been far too casual for the task it seeks to accomplish.

James Carden

‘AI extinction’ is the new Covid panic

Doomers

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

Michael Lind

8 mins

25 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

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

24 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

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

22 Sep 2026 - 1:09am

The new Romantic Age

Literature

The new Romantic Age Novels can still help us fight the machine

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

21 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

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?

Our writers

Kathleen Stock

Mary Harrington

Aris Roussinos

Wolfgang Munchau

Yanis Varoufakis

Poppy Sowerby

Sohrab Ahmari

Michael Lind

Glenn Loury

Jonny Ball

Aaron Bastani

David Rose

Politics

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22.07 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

29.06 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

27.06 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

Will the British Right lose us the Falklands?

Will the British Right lose us the Falklands?

Samuel Rubinstein

7 mins

Britain’s paramilitary nightmare

Britain’s paramilitary nightmare

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

Aris Roussinos Inside the war for Piddington

Tuesday, 22 September Tuesday
22 Sep^nd

Reaction 18:15

Taylor Lorenz: the MrBeast of internet journalism

Ryan Zickgraf

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

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

Monday, 21 September Monday
21 Sep^st

Debate 22:00

Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn’t understand school inequality

Nikole Hannah-Jones doesn’t understand school inequality

Neetu Arnold

Analysis 17:30

Zack Polanski should take inspiration from the German Greens

Rakib Ehsan

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

Debate 10:00

What Rishi Sunak gets wrong about Britishness

Peter Franklin

Analysis 07:00

Is latest AfD breakthrough the end of Friedrich Merz?

Is latest AfD breakthrough the end of Friedrich Merz?

William Nattrass

Wall Street is asset-stripping Hollywood

media

Wall Street is asset-stripping Hollywood The Ellison takeover is vulture capitalism

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

23 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

What the West forgets about China

State visit

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

David Lloyd Dusenbury

8 mins

24 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Doomsday

AI: a very human tragedy Mankind will always overreach

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

23 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Big Burnham is watching you

Censorship

Big Burnham is watching you The surveillance blob is growing

Dominic Adler

6 mins

24 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Literature

The new Romantic Age Novels can still help us fight the machine

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

21 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

International Law

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

Heather Penatzer

7 mins

22 Sep 2026 - 1:09am

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

Aposhcalypse Now

Royals

Aposhcalypse Now Charles Spencer has forgotten what duty means

Mary Harrington

6 mins

22 Sep 2026 - 12:04am

Sunday, 20 September Sunday
20 Sep^th

Reaction 17:00

Strikes on Moscow will infuriate Trump

Bethany Elliott

Explainer 13:00

The problem with the Anglo-Scotch whisky war

Adam James Pollock

Debate 08:00

Netflix is turning serial killers into heart-throbs

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

Kristina Murkett

Saturday, 19 September Saturday
19 Sep^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

Will the Gulf war claim another victim?

Geopolitics

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

Malise Ruthven

6 mins

23 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

Love and sex

Fertility-maxxing without shame Natalists must discard ‘legitimacy’

Hollis Robbins

6 mins

17 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Obituary

The faith of Dovie Eisner The disabled writer defended human dignity

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

18 Sep 2026 - 12:56am

The problem with paedo-hunters

film

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

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

23 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

The Left

How ‘Progress, Inc.’ neuters the working class They want blue-collar vibes, not policies

Evan Barker

6 mins

16 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

UK

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21.08 2026

Rowan Williams should engage with Farage on Christianity

21.08 2026

How Harry and Meghan can win back Britain

11.06 2026

John Healey exit confirms British defence is in crisis

Why we tolerate homelessness

Why we tolerate homelessness

Darren McGarvey

5 mins

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy

Maggie Oliver

5 mins

The Econoclasts Economic stagnation has broken German democracy

Friday, 18 September Friday
18 Sep^th

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, 17 September Thursday
17 Sep^th

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

Mark Carney’s EU delusion

Political dinosaurs

Mark Carney’s EU delusion His globalised world is dead and buried

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

21 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

Education

The lobby at war with learning Teachers unions serve no one but themselves

Joel Kotkin

6 mins

15 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Special Report

Piddington’s very English revolution Westminster has radicalised the shires

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

14 Sep 2026 - 12:20am

Wolfgang Munchau The AfD momentum is unstoppable

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

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

22 Sep 2026 - 12:04am

EDI

Quotas won’t solve inequality The working class isn’t asking for pity

David Littlefair

8 mins

11 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

US

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01.07 2026

China is threatening America in the AI race

18.06 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

04.06 2026

Gold rush threatens US financial hegemony

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp

Peter Santenello

12 mins

Trump’s tariff addiction

Trump’s tariff addiction

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

The Econoclasts Iceland has exposed Europe’s unity illusion

Ed Miliband’s Jewish agony

Weekend Analysis

Ed Miliband’s Jewish agony His every word has consequences

Howard Jacobson

5 mins

19 Sep 2026 - 12:10am

Wednesday, 16 September Wednesday
16 Sep^th

Analysis 18:30

Anthropic’s AI slowdown plan is a gift to China

Elliot Leavy

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

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

Tuesday, 15 September Tuesday
15 Sep^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

Analysis 07:00

Unionist shame is opening the door to separatism

David Jeffery

Big Tech

The AI revolution will devour Apple John Ternus’s empire is folding

David Auerbach

7 mins

10 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

INVESTIGATION

MAGA’s Latin-American crime thriller The Right’s top man in the region faces life in prison

Juan David Rojas

5 mins

9 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts America is spiralling towards a debt crisis

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The cultural superpower of One Piece

Japan

The cultural superpower of One Piece Manga saved Japan’s reputation

Christopher Harding

6 mins

22 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Big Tech

How to save writing from AI It’s not enough to use Pangram

Matthew Gasda

6 mins

8 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Europe

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14.09 2026

Sweden election shows power of competent conservatism

04.09 2026

Pedro Sánchez’s Ceuta response is weakening the Spanish state

28.08 2026

Russia does not want a war with Europe

The case for de-escalation with Russia

The case for de-escalation with Russia

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

The Russian Church’s war on Europe

The Russian Church’s war on Europe

Lucy Ash

8 mins

Simon Sebag Montefiore What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Monday, 14 September Monday
14 Sep^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

Sunday, 13 September Sunday
13 Sep^th

Reaction 15:00

Trump doesn’t understand the messy politics of Irish reunification

Trump doesn’t understand the messy politics of Irish reunification

Gerry Lynch

Analysis 13:00

Kemi Badenoch may have found Labour’s Achilles’ heel

Peter Franklin

Explainer 08:00

Reform UK’s record donations risk Americanising British politics

Lee David Evans

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

19 Sep 2026 - 12:05am

Norman Yoke

Who owns the Bayeux Tapestry? It’s embroidered countless ideologies

Julian Jackson

7 mins

7 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Demography

A childless world changes everything Societies ossify without youthful enthusiasm

Greg Noone

6 mins

4 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Richard D. Wolff The decline of the US empire

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why do mothers kill their children?

Why do mothers kill their children? Infanticide is shockingly common

Olympia Campbell

8 mins

21 Sep 2026 - 12:02am

The Right

Samuel Samson: Team Trump’s civilisation defender The administration’s ugly realities belie his ideals

Valerie Stivers

12 mins

3 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

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04.08 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

19.07 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

15.02 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 Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

The End Times are nigh — again

Weekend Spotlight

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

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

19 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Saturday, 12 September Saturday
12 Sep^th

Analysis 16:30

Tucker Carlson’s 9/11 comments show why he broke with Trump

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Carlson is now using his large platform to poke holes in Republican campaigns.

Emily Jashinsky

Reaction 13:00

Medical journals have chosen activism over science

Druin Burch

News 08:00

Alistair Harrison: the power behind the Restore Britain throne

Alistair Harrison: the power behind the Restore Britain throne

Shea Ferguson

Friday, 11 September Friday
11 Sep^th

News 18:45

Poll: 62% of 5Pillars readers believe Israel was responsible for 9/11

Rob Lownie

Reaction 17:00

Assisted dying bill’s defeat is a victory for human dignity

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Cautionary tales from places such as Canada and the Netherlands have stopped its progress.

Yuan Yi Zhu

Debate 13:30

Farage is making a mistake by cosying up to Israel

Farage is making a mistake by cosying up to Israel

Ralph Leonard

Analysis 10:00

Does Generation Z care about 9/11?

David Masciotra

Debate 07:00

Labour’s tourist tax is a betrayal of British cities

Richard Crampton-Platt

Obituary

How Wendell Berry saved my life His dream of local liberty calls us to political action

Patrick Deneen

11 mins

2 Sep 2026 - 5:19am

Economy

America’s brain-rotting socialism debate All modern economies are mixed

Michael Lind

9 mins

1 Sep 2026 - 12:00am

Ron Paul The US bailout machine is spiralling

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How China’s Zoomers lost hope

How China’s Zoomers lost hope They yearn for more than economic growth

Tianle Zhang

8 mins

21 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Film

The summer of Idiossey Why are we still talking about this stupid flim?

Geoff Dyer

5 mins

31 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

War

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27.08 2026

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

31.07 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

Thursday, 10 September Thursday
10 Sep^th

Explainer 16:00

Britain’s falling food production is a national security threat

Liam Stokes

Reaction 13:00

Sarah Mullally is outshining Justin Welby on assisted dying

Sarah Mullally is outshining Justin Welby on assisted dying

Gerry Lynch

Debate 10:00

Will artificial superintelligence really wipe out humanity?

Timandra Harkness

Analysis 07:00

New attempts to ban the AfD will only boost its support

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To dismiss the party as extremist misjudges what is going on in German politics.

Wolfgang Munchau

Wednesday, 9 September Wednesday
9 Sep^th

Explainer 15:45

Why Tokyo is cracking down on Airbnb

Why Tokyo is cracking down on Airbnb

Philip Patrick

Reaction 11:55

Ed Miliband’s anti-Israel pivot could rebuild the Labour Left

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The political risks of the new settlement goods boycotts are few.

Jonny Ball

Analysis 10:00

Investor exodus is hitting the UK economy

Andrew O'Brien

News 07:00

NYU ranked America’s worst college for free speech

Archie Earle

The cult of AI armageddon

Superintelligence

The cult of AI armageddon Who will save us from the EA doomers?

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

18 Sep 2026 - 12:04am

Public Health

The great Covid reckoning It’s essential to stopping the next pandemic

Christian Parenti

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Death

Why corpses shouldn’t be sacred Beneath our reverence lies hostility

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

The Econoclasts China’s hidden economic crisis

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Can anyone stop the Houthis?

War

Can anyone stop the Houthis? Yemen’s civil war is set to go global

Reuel Marc Gerecht

7 mins

18 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

The Right

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA Exiled hawks refuse to assimilate

Juan David Rojas

8 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Faith

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19.09 2026

Muslim cleric’s award withdrawal shows limits of liberal Christianity

05.07 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

26.09 2025

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 Andy Burnham is misjudging Britain’s real crisis

Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office

Exposé

Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office Why have ministers lost control?

Ian Proud

9 mins

17 Sep 2026 - 12:04am

Tuesday, 8 September Tuesday
8 Sep^th

Reaction 16:10

Stella Creasy is giving Muslim misogyny a free pass

Stella Creasy is giving Muslim misogyny a free pass

Joan Smith

Analysis 13:00

Jordan Bardella’s Farage deal has alienated France

Harrison Stetler

Debate 10:40

The AfD is still missing an economic agenda

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This was primarily a vote about pensions, wages, energy bills and war — not about migration.

Thomas Fazi

Dispatch 07:00

Reform UK is taking on the youth masculinity crisis

Archie Earle

Monday, 7 September Monday
7 Sep^th

Reaction 18:00

Safety culture is harming children’s development

Stella O'Malley

Debate 16:00

Why can’t the Home Office stop asylum fraud?

Why can’t the Home Office stop asylum fraud?

Chris Bayliss

Reaction 13:00

Andy Burnham’s economic optimism is already unravelling

David Jeffery

Analysis 10:30

Trump no longer has a plan for the Ukraine war

Bethany Elliott

Reaction 07:00

The AfD has breached Germany’s firewall

The AfD has breached Germany’s firewall

Katja Hoyer

Political Economy

The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war He should be targeting China, not allies

Michael Lind

4 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Sex

The return of the foot fetish The ‘barefoot shoe’ channels Gen Z’s favourite kink

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Ross Barkan Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

What Burnham can learn from Bismarck

Realpolitik

What Burnham can learn from Bismarck Successful idealists adapt to the times

Wessie du Toit

7 mins

18 Sep 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order We can’t evade reality forever

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 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

Liberalism can’t tame lust

Liberalism can’t tame lust

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

Who owns Meghan Markle?

Who owns Meghan Markle?

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

The Econoclasts The war on populism is backfiring

Sunday, 6 September Sunday
6 Sep^th

Reaction 16:00

New assisted dying estimates show bill is not fit for purpose

Adam James Pollock

Analysis 13:00

Is Zia Yusuf preparing to succeed Farage?

Peter Franklin

Debate 08:00

Dover migration protests take advantage of a weakened police

Dover migration protests take advantage of a weakened police

Dominic Adler

Saturday, 5 September Saturday
5 Sep^th

Reaction 17:00

Andy Burnham doesn’t understand pubs

Richard Crampton-Platt

Analysis 13:00

Record wheat prices are causing anxiety in Europe

Susanne Mundschenk

Reaction 08:00

Reform sleaze probe shows Farage is not ready for power

Reform sleaze probe shows Farage is not ready for power

James Sean Dickson

Claude: tyranny’s little helper

Artificial intelligence

Claude: tyranny’s little helper Our enemies are weaponising AI

Peter Frankopan

6 mins

16 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

deep history

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

David Keenan

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 10:12am

Cambridge

The Jason Arday delusion Scapegoating is punitive and crass

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

The Econoclasts The Ukraine turnaround is a media illusion

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

What I learned occupying London

Protest

What I learned occupying London Elite overproduction causes revolutions

Aaron Bastani

9 mins

17 Sep 2026 - 12:03am

MAGA

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future Expansionist policies have a way of rebounding

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:00am