Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers is the Editor-in-Chief & CEO of UnHerd. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of YouGov, and founder of PoliticsHome.

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Britain doesn’t want to go to war

06 Jun 2024

Inside the disinformation industry

17 Apr 2024

Andrew Sullivan: What I got wrong about Trump

03 Feb 2024

Oleksiy Arestovych: Zelenskyy’s challenger

15 Jan 2024

Nick Cave on Christ and the Devil

26 Dec 2023

Anders Tegnell’s lesson for the Covid Inquiry

20 Dec 2023

John Mearsheimer: There is no two-state solution

16 Dec 2023

The Battle for San Francisco

10 Dec 2023

Ayaan Hirsi Ali answers her critics

16 Nov 2023

Jonathan Sumption on Gaza, lockdown and the ECHR

22 Oct 2023

Did Rory Stewart just admit that lockdowns were a mistake? The politician made an intriguing statement on the These Times podcast

16 Sep 2023

Wolfgang Münchau: the end of the German era

28 Aug 2023

Edward Blum: My battle against affirmative action

29 Jun 2023

Was New Atheism a mistake?

07 Jun 2023

Ukrainian MP: why victory is the only option

01 Jun 2023

Edward Blum: My battle against affirmative action

29 May 2023

Robert Kennedy Jr: America needs a revolution

03 May 2023

Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation

Iain McGilchrist

01 May 2023

Nick Cave on Christ and the Devil

10 Apr 2023

Elbridge Colby: China is more dangerous than Russia

01 Apr 2023

Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?

23 Mar 2023

The truth about conspiracy Britain

15 Feb 2023

Scotland turns on gender ideology

10 Feb 2023

Introducing UnHerd Britain 2023

30 Jan 2023

John Mearsheimer: We’re playing Russian roulette

30 Nov 2022

China abandons ‘one size fits all’ Covid policy There are echoes of the Great Barrington Declaration in Beijing's latest plans

14 Nov 2022

Investigating the Florida mRNA vaccine study Are young men really dying from vaccine-related heart injury?

12 Oct 2022

Church sings ‘God save the King’ for the first time UnHerd filmed a spontaneous — and historic — service at St Anne's Kew yesterday evening

09 Sep 2022

WHO’s Susan Michie: my politics are my business Freddie Sayers spoke to the new WHO Nudge Unit chair to discuss the politics of public health

27 Jul 2022

David Frost: Does Brexit still matter?

22 Jul 2022

Tory leadership latest: Liz Truss becomes the favourite Polling triggered an anti-Penny campaign in the media

19 Jul 2022

Note to MPs: YouGov is not wrong about Penny Mordaunt The polling company has a near-perfect record for leadership elections

15 Jul 2022

Meet the ultra-royalists camping at Buckingham Palace For some people, the monarchy means a great deal

01 Jun 2022

Was Grace Lavery silenced by her own community? She pulled out of an UnHerd event after pressure from fellow trans activists

22 Feb 2022

Louis Gave: What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines The financial markets have been underwhelmed by the data

15 Feb 2022

What Munira Mirza’s departure really means The departing Head of Policy was in charge of fighting the culture war

04 Feb 2022

Why were Denmark’s Covid models better than England’s? From today, the Nordic nation has annulled all its Covid laws

01 Feb 2022

Covid could still save Boris

18 Jan 2022

Inside the Austrian lockdown

31 Dec 2021

What the non-decision on lockdown means The political atmosphere has fundamentally shifted

21 Dec 2021

Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Donald Trump Freddie Sayers speaks to the columnist and commentator about the crisis in America

11 Dec 2021

Why Plan B is a mistake

09 Dec 2021

Why the change to masking rules will make people angry Introducing arbitrary rules that won't be effective has a cost

27 Nov 2021

Who is Éric Zemmour?

24 Nov 2021

Inside the Austrian lockdown

18 Nov 2021

Inside the Austrian lockdown We visit Vienna to explore the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated

17 Nov 2021

Inside Austria’s lockdown for the unvaccinated I've been speaking to people on the street to find out what they think

15 Nov 2021

Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests When I had Covid, they were remarkably accurate

09 Oct 2021

BBC News reports a non-existent religious revival A poll suggested a boom in religiosity among young people — but it's not true

30 Sep 2021

The Left’s case against vaccine passports A group of senior Labour figures offers an animated defence of civil liberties

28 Sep 2021

Will Fauci bypass the FDA ruling on booster jabs? In both the US and UK, leaders are sidelining their expert committees

20 Sep 2021

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

04 Sep 2021

Why Facebook hid its ‘Transparency Report’ The company is embarrassed by the most popular shared content on its site

23 Aug 2021

Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like CNN's international correspondent talks exclusively to UnHerd from Afghanistan

18 Aug 2021

Have I been unfair to Neil Ferguson? The professor is treated with leniency, even when he gets it wrong

29 Jul 2021

Anti-Freedom Day polling is not what it seems Voters' reluctance to support reopening has a marked political bias

19 Jul 2021

Govt modeller: What our Covid forecasts got wrong SPI-M member Dr Mike Tildesley considers whether June 21st could have gone ahead

01 Jul 2021

A glimpse of deep England on Regent Street The freedom protests were a vignette of the strange political moment we are in

28 Jun 2021

Richard Dawkins: ‘Scientism’ is a dirty word The prominent atheist discusses the limits of science and the fate of New Atheism

18 Jun 2021

Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays

15 Jun 2021

Peter Singer: Despite everything, I’m still a cosmopolitan The moral philosopher discusses whether his progressive worldview has come back to haunt him

02 Jun 2021

How Facebook censored the lab leak theory

31 May 2021

Dominic Cummings’s fantasy: that he invented lockdown The truth is sadly less heroic than he makes out

26 May 2021

What Cummings doesn’t understand

24 May 2021

Confusing travel advice only spreads suspicion Contradictory messaging is most damaging to the least powerful

19 May 2021

The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome After a year of pandemic, have voters fallen in love with their captors?

08 May 2021

Why Trump should not be banned from social media A debate from earlier this year seems relevant once again

06 May 2021

Did Sweden get Covid wrong?

16 Apr 2021

Sir Nicholas Soames: Philip’s values now seem far away The retired MP shares reflections on 60 years of friendship

09 Apr 2021

Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up The IDW convenor explains how the group became ideologically divided

06 Apr 2021

Dave Rubin: the next Governor of California? In a teaser ahead of today's interview, the YouTuber spoke about a potential run...

05 Apr 2021

Libertarians have lost their way over vaccine passports Defending the freedom of businesses means curtailing the freedom of individuals

24 Mar 2021

Effect of the pandemic or lockdown? FT gets into a twist Two worldviews clash again

11 Mar 2021

Lord Sumption: civil disobedience has begun

04 Mar 2021

Headmaster: I refuse to make pupils wear masks in class One London school will not be following the Government guidance

28 Feb 2021

How lockdown changed us

24 Feb 2021

Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO An article was labelled misinformation for asking questions about China

11 Feb 2021

Inside the Zero Covid campaign

04 Feb 2021

We need Scepticism more than ever

19 Jan 2021

Adam Wagner: are lockdowns a threat to human rights? The human rights lawyer gave Freddie Sayers a sobering assessment

18 Jan 2021

Is our pace of vaccination slowing down? The latest number announced by the PM was disappointing

06 Jan 2021

Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be? Freddie Sayers spoke to journalist and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald, who gave an unsettling answer

28 Dec 2020

Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible The Professor has given an extraordinary interview to The Times

26 Dec 2020

Tom Holland: Is it Christian to cancel Christmas? Freddie Sayers spoke to the historian about the religious impulse behind it

23 Dec 2020

Which epidemiologist do you believe?

23 Dec 2020

Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster Freddie Sayers spoke to Fredrik Elgh, a virologist at Umeå University in Northern Sweden

18 Dec 2020

The truth about that No 10 Covid briefing Attempts to prove that the PM favours a 'herd immunity strategy' don't wash

13 Dec 2020

What really explains the Asia Covid exception? Scientists are investigating biological, rather than policy, differences

10 Dec 2020

Tutor speaks out on Cambridge free speech battle Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr Arif Ahmed about the university's free speech vote

07 Dec 2020

The Covid tiers can’t go soon enough

30 Nov 2020

Danish mask study author: effect may be small, but worthwhile The author of a controversial new study into masks defends their use

20 Nov 2020

Prof Tim Spector: hopes of a vaccine will lead to more lockdowns The epidemiologist and ZOE app founder shares his concerns

11 Nov 2020

Why the polling miss matters

09 Nov 2020

In polls we trust

03 Nov 2020

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump got right The thinker talks to Freddie Sayers about how populism is a matter of the soul

29 Oct 2020

The case for a circuit breaker

16 Oct 2020

Is The Guardian planning an attack on the Great Barrington scientists? Professor Martin Kulldorff of Harvard is the latest scientist in the firing line

09 Oct 2020

Covid is Trump’s last chance

06 Oct 2020

Sir Graham Brady: I can’t vote for another lockdown The leading Tory backbencher tells UnHerd that the mood has changed decisively in the party

22 Sep 2020