Freddie Sayers

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

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

Why doesn’t Britain regret lockdown?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

The truth about conspiracy Britain

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Scotland turns on gender ideology

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Introducing UnHerd Britain 2023

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

John Mearsheimer: We’re playing Russian roulette

BY Freddie Sayers / 9 mins

China abandons ‘one size fits all’ Covid policy

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Investigating the Florida mRNA vaccine study

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Church sings ‘God save the King’ for the first time

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

WHO’s Susan Michie: my politics are my business

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

David Frost: Does Brexit still matter?

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Tory leadership latest: Liz Truss becomes the favourite

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Note to MPs: YouGov is not wrong about Penny Mordaunt

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Meet the ultra-royalists camping at Buckingham Palace

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Was Grace Lavery silenced by her own community?

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Louis Gave: What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

What Munira Mirza’s departure really means

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Why were Denmark’s Covid models better than England’s?

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Covid could still save Boris

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Inside the Austrian lockdown

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

What the non-decision on lockdown means

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Donald Trump

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Why Plan B is a mistake

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Why the change to masking rules will make people angry

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Who is Éric Zemmour?

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Inside the Austrian lockdown

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Inside the Austrian lockdown

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Inside Austria’s lockdown for the unvaccinated

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

BBC News reports a non-existent religious revival

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

The Left’s case against vaccine passports

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Will Fauci bypass the FDA ruling on booster jabs?

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Why Facebook hid its ‘Transparency Report’

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Have I been unfair to Neil Ferguson?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Anti-Freedom Day polling is not what it seems

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Govt modeller: What our Covid forecasts got wrong

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

A glimpse of deep England on Regent Street

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Richard Dawkins: ‘Scientism’ is a dirty word

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Peter Singer: Despite everything, I’m still a cosmopolitan

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

How Facebook censored the lab leak theory

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Dominic Cummings’s fantasy: that he invented lockdown

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

What Cummings doesn’t understand

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Confusing travel advice only spreads suspicion

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

The overlooked election factor: Stockholm syndrome

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Why Trump should not be banned from social media

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Did Sweden get Covid wrong?

BY Freddie Sayers / 7 mins

Sir Nicholas Soames: Philip’s values now seem far away

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Dave Rubin: why the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ split up

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Dave Rubin: the next Governor of California?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Libertarians have lost their way over vaccine passports

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Effect of the pandemic or lockdown? FT gets into a twist

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Lord Sumption: civil disobedience has begun

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Headmaster: I refuse to make pupils wear masks in class

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

How lockdown changed us

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Inside the Zero Covid campaign

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

We need Scepticism more than ever

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Adam Wagner: are lockdowns a threat to human rights?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Is our pace of vaccination slowing down?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Neil Ferguson interview: China changed what was possible

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Tom Holland: Is it Christian to cancel Christmas?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Which epidemiologist do you believe?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

The truth about that No 10 Covid briefing

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

What really explains the Asia Covid exception?

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Tutor speaks out on Cambridge free speech battle

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

The Covid tiers can’t go soon enough

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Danish mask study author: effect may be small, but worthwhile

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Prof Tim Spector: hopes of a vaccine will lead to more lockdowns

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Why the polling miss matters

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

In polls we trust

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump got right

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

The case for a circuit breaker

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Is The Guardian planning an attack on the Great Barrington scientists?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Covid is Trump’s last chance

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Sir Graham Brady: I can’t vote for another lockdown

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Is this the question that will win it for Joe Biden?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Is Donald Trump toast?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Matt Hancock’s ‘messaging’ is no better than Trump’s

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Merlin Sheldrake: the philosophy of fungi

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Is Donald Trump toast?

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Tyler Cowen on herd mentality and herd immunity

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Johan Giesecke gets new role at WHO

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Prof Michael Levitt: here’s what I got wrong

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

The ZeroCovid debate: can the disease be eliminated?

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

What we can learn from the Swedish paradox

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden

BY Freddie Sayers / 7 mins

Prof Carl Heneghan: can we trust the Covid-19 death numbers?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Watch out: anti-maskers are in your midst

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Meet the leader of the new ‘Italexit’ Party

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

T-cell immunity and the truth about Covid-19 in Sweden

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Steven Pinker: They’re trying to cancel me

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Younger people are getting Covid — why is that bad news?

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Interview: is Saudi Arabia making progress?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

How Covid-19 could get Trump re-elected

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Karl Friston: up to 80% not even susceptible to Covid-19

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Coronavirus doesn’t care about politics

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Banned by YouTube: Professor Karol Sikora discusses Covid-19

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Sunetra Gupta: Covid-19 is on the way out

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

The post Covid blocs are beginning to emerge

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Will Britain end up following the Swedes?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

German virologist: Covid-19 is less deadly than feared

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Johan Giesecke stands firm: death rates in Sweden will go down

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Which epidemiologist do you believe?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Meet Claire Ainsley, Keir Starmer’s intriguing new Head of Policy

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Jury still out on Swedish coronavirus strategy

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

How long will lockdown last?

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

To relieve our parks, open the golf courses

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

A grim milestone for the UK epidemic

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

All eyes on the Swedish coronavirus experiment

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Don’t shut the parks, Boris — give us rules

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Don’t nudge us, Prime Minister, tell us!

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Voters give the Government a thumbs up on coronavirus

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Is it time to give up on the ‘nuclear family’?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

The two faces of Boris Johnson

BY Freddie Sayers / 6 mins

Ed Balls has been on a journey… in more ways than one

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Cultural heroes, please stay out of politics

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Maybe Lisa Nandy has a chance after all

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The coming constitutional battle royal

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Lisa Nandy on social conservatism and Dominic Cummings

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The British answer to the Benedict Option

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Boris bans the word ‘Brexit’

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Boris Johnson’s biggest weakness became his strength

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Why do British teens think life is meaningless?

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Finally! The Swedish ‘moderates’ agree to work with the populists

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Look closely, and London is not what it seems

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The YouGov map that says it all

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Brexit didn’t cause all our divisions

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Leadership debate turns Blind Date

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Boris will move on economics more easily than culture

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Boris Johnson’s fish and chips strategy

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Flyover country goes blue — or does it?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Watch Kate Hoey’s goodbye

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Justin Welby joins the fight against the new ‘Magisterium’

BY Freddie Sayers / 1 min

The Express has swung behind Boris — and that matters

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

What about Workington Woman?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Rory Stewart on Love, Brexit and Boris Johnson

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Grace Blakeley: What the Left can learn from Thatcher

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Watership Down reveals the radical centre, rabbit-style

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

The truth about immigration in Sweden

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The politics of Donald Trump’s stoopid language

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Hassan Damluji: How to build a global nation

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Prince Charles hints at a blueprint for his reign

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

How Tony Blair destroyed the centre ground

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Is Joker meant to be Donald Trump?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Urban Guy versus Flyover Man

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Tory MP: kleptocrat “bling” oligarchs should be unwelcome in London

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Watch: UnHerd goes to Tory Conference

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The politest man in parliament defends rude words

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Watch: John McDonnell takes a swipe at Ed Miliband

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Mark Thompson: the BBC is the answer to Brexit

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The rise of the hippie conservatives

BY Freddie Sayers / 5 mins

Who gives a **** about England?

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

BY Freddie Sayers / 2 mins

Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Watch: the lone Lib Dem speaking out against revoking Article 50

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Charles Clarke interview: what we got wrong on globalisation

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Tom Tugendhat interview: is ‘National Conservatism’ coming to the UK?

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Lisa Nandy: Why I don’t regret not supporting the deal

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Vernon Bogdanor: it’s not the Government’s fault

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

Welcome to The Post

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

The Brexit endgame begins

BY Freddie Sayers / 3 mins

Who wants to be ‘boosted’ by Boris?

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Immigration, citizenship and those “go home” tweets

BY Matthew Parris / 5 mins

Why Polly Toynbee is wrong about God

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

Farage has found Boris’s weak spot

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins

David Brooks: “Social freedom is not a good feeling”

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

David Brooks: “Social freedom is not a good feeling”

BY Freddie Sayers / < 1 min

What Rory Stewart got right

BY Freddie Sayers / 4 mins