Freddie Sayers

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

@freddiesayers

Is this the question that will win it for Joe Biden? One of his worst attributes may turn out to be his best

21 Sep 2020

Is Donald Trump toast?

18 Sep 2020

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

14 Sep 2020

Merlin Sheldrake: the philosophy of fungi Freddie Sayers speaks to the biologist about the mysterious world of mushrooms

10 Sep 2020

Is Donald Trump toast? The pollsters Nate Silver, Doug Rivers and Robert Cahaly have radically different ideas about the coming election

09 Sep 2020

Tyler Cowen on herd mentality and herd immunity Freddie Sayers speaks to the influential US thinker about Covid-19, the media and Trump

03 Sep 2020

Johan Giesecke gets new role at WHO The Swedish epidemiologist has been handed a more senior position

01 Sep 2020

Prof Michael Levitt: here’s what I got wrong The Nobel Prize winner returns to LockdownTV to discuss his predictions

28 Aug 2020

The ZeroCovid debate: can the disease be eliminated?

25 Aug 2020

What we can learn from the Swedish paradox

10 Aug 2020

Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden

24 Jul 2020

Prof Carl Heneghan: can we trust the Covid-19 death numbers? The Oxford epidemiologist has uncovered some worrying things about the way the data is recorded

17 Jul 2020

Watch out: anti-maskers are in your midst Contrary to confusing polls, over 1/3 of the population are against the latest move

15 Jul 2020

Meet the leader of the new ‘Italexit’ Party Freddie Sayers speaks to Italian senator Gianluigi Paragone

15 Jul 2020

T-cell immunity and the truth about Covid-19 in Sweden We hear a lot about coronavirus in Sweden... but what's life like on the ground?

10 Jul 2020

Steven Pinker: They’re trying to cancel me Freddie Sayers chats to the Harvard Professor about his denunciation by the illiberal Left

08 Jul 2020

Younger people are getting Covid — why is that bad news? The Leicester spike offers the chance to see what the real effects are

03 Jul 2020

Coleman Hughes: The moral case against Black Lives Matter Freddie Sayers chats to the Contributing Editor of City Journal about race relations in the US

02 Jul 2020

Interview: is Saudi Arabia making progress? Freddie Sayers speaks to Prince Khalid Bandar, Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to the UK

30 Jun 2020

Name, please! Pub landlords face confusion over new rules Freddie Sayers speaks to Peter Borg-Neal, CEO of a 28-strong pub group

25 Jun 2020

How Covid-19 could get Trump re-elected

23 Jun 2020

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism Freddie Sayers meets philosopher-mechanic Matthew Crawford

22 Jun 2020

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

04 Jun 2020

Coronavirus doesn’t care about politics

29 May 2020

Banned by YouTube: Professor Karol Sikora discusses Covid-19 Signs that the virus is 'getting tired' across the world

21 May 2020

Sunetra Gupta: Covid-19 is on the way out

21 May 2020

The post Covid blocs are beginning to emerge The world is dividing into low-Covid countries and places which have decided to live alongside it

15 May 2020

Will Britain end up following the Swedes?

13 May 2020

German virologist: Covid-19 is less deadly than feared Professor Hendrik Streeck's findings show a fatality rate of 0.24-0.36%

05 May 2020

Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential Professor Michael Levitt has been following the numbers

02 May 2020

Johan Giesecke stands firm: death rates in Sweden will go down The Swedish professor responds to our Neil Ferguson interview

29 Apr 2020

Which epidemiologist do you believe?

27 Apr 2020

Meet Claire Ainsley, Keir Starmer’s intriguing new Head of Policy The appointment hints at a more radical break from Corbynism

23 Apr 2020

Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy Freddie Sayers speaks to Professor Johan Giesecke, who says that our policy is not driven by evidence

17 Apr 2020

Jury still out on Swedish coronavirus strategy

14 Apr 2020

How long will lockdown last?

09 Apr 2020

To relieve our parks, open the golf courses We need more public space to get through this, not less

06 Apr 2020

A grim milestone for the UK epidemic New data from the ONS shows that deaths per week just moved above average

31 Mar 2020

All eyes on the Swedish coronavirus experiment

30 Mar 2020

Don’t shut the parks, Boris — give us rules There are ways to keep vital public spaces open safely

23 Mar 2020

Don’t nudge us, Prime Minister, tell us! It seems the Government is sacrificing clarity in an attempt to sound less authoritarian

16 Mar 2020

Voters give the Government a thumbs up on coronavirus It's early days, but so far the country is impressed with the handling of the crisis

05 Mar 2020

Is it time to give up on the ‘nuclear family’? David Brooks asks some difficult questions in his latest column

11 Feb 2020

The two faces of Boris Johnson

03 Feb 2020

Ed Balls has been on a journey… in more ways than one A trip to Europe gives the former MP a new political perspective

27 Jan 2020

Cultural heroes, please stay out of politics

22 Jan 2020

Maybe Lisa Nandy has a chance after all The Wigan MP has a plan to win, and it's not a bad one

14 Jan 2020

The coming constitutional battle royal

13 Jan 2020

Lisa Nandy on social conservatism and Dominic Cummings The Labour leadership contender spoke to UnHerd about how communities can protect their culture

06 Jan 2020

The British answer to the Benedict Option The instinct to turn away from mainstream society is found far beyond American Christians

30 Dec 2019

Boris bans the word ‘Brexit’ An edict has gone out in government banning the B word post January 31st

19 Dec 2019

Boris Johnson’s biggest weakness became his strength The shape-shifting character of the Prime Minister was a necessary part of his victory...

13 Dec 2019

What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result Whichever way the result goes, the Tories haven't convinced yet

11 Dec 2019

Why do British teens think life is meaningless?

10 Dec 2019

Finally! The Swedish ‘moderates’ agree to work with the populists The only way for populist movements to mature is to let them in

06 Dec 2019

Look closely, and London is not what it seems

29 Nov 2019

The YouGov map that says it all One powerful image shows how the Tories are heading for a majority

27 Nov 2019

Brexit didn’t cause all our divisions

21 Nov 2019

Leadership debate turns Blind Date The set may have been borrowed from The Weakest Link, but the atmosphere was full Cilla Black

19 Nov 2019

Boris will move on economics more easily than culture Beyond Brexit, what sort of domestic agenda would the PM actually implement?

18 Nov 2019

Boris Johnson’s fish and chips strategy New analysis reveals the favourite restaurant types of different parts of Britain

13 Nov 2019

Flyover country goes blue — or does it? The Centre for Towns has produced some truly gobsmacking charts...

11 Nov 2019

Watch Kate Hoey’s goodbye Kate Hoey used her farewell speech to stress the importance of tradition, and how not all change is good change...

06 Nov 2019

Justin Welby joins the fight against the new ‘Magisterium’ Free speech on university campuses is still a problem - but it's nothing to do with the Church

05 Nov 2019

The Express has swung behind Boris — and that matters The newspaper that Westminster likes to laugh at is a powerful signal of where Brexit Party voters are headed

04 Nov 2019

What about Workington Woman? A new report on 'Workington man' is interesting, but there's no mention of women

30 Oct 2019

Rory Stewart on Love, Brexit and Boris Johnson Rory Stewart talks to Freddie Sayers about love, Brexit and how Boris Johnson made him feel like an abused wife

29 Oct 2019

Grace Blakeley: What the Left can learn from Thatcher Freddie Sayers talks to the Left-wing economics writer about what her plans would mean in the real world

25 Oct 2019

Watership Down reveals the radical centre, rabbit-style The rabbits of Watership Down, in escaping their doomed warren and seeking to found a new one, show the way to a new political order

22 Oct 2019

The truth about immigration in Sweden Freddie Sayers talks to Swedish activist Siavosh Derakhti about antisemitism and violence in Malmö

21 Oct 2019

The politics of Donald Trump’s stoopid language Using childish language seems to have served Donald Trump quite well...

17 Oct 2019

Hassan Damluji: How to build a global nation I sat down with author Hassan Damluji to discuss his new book, The Responsible Globalist...

16 Oct 2019

Prince Charles hints at a blueprint for his reign When Prince Charles becomes King, the monarchy will overnight once again become a court of ideas

14 Oct 2019

How Tony Blair destroyed the centre ground

11 Oct 2019

Is Joker meant to be Donald Trump? I worry that in the political furore around Joker, the violent backstory of the iconic Batman character, people might be missing the obvious...

07 Oct 2019

Urban Guy versus Flyover Man

04 Oct 2019

Tory MP: kleptocrat “bling” oligarchs should be unwelcome in London Tory MP John Penrose made a splash at the party's conference by criticising the capitalist system in such strong terms that members in the audience complained that he sounds like a Labour MP...

03 Oct 2019

Watch: UnHerd goes to Tory Conference Freddie Sayers asks David Goodhart, Matthew Goodwin and Madeline Grant whether the Tory Party are really answering the demands of Brexit voters...

01 Oct 2019

The politest man in parliament defends rude words At a fringe event in Manchester, Michael Gove epitomises the contradictions of the Tory Party in 2019

30 Sep 2019

Watch: John McDonnell takes a swipe at Ed Miliband At a Labour Party Conference event, Ed Miliband bent over backwards to be complimentary to the leadership; John McDonnell didn’t exactly return the favour...

27 Sep 2019

Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson

26 Sep 2019

Mark Thompson: the BBC is the answer to Brexit OK, he didn't say exactly that, in his speech last night to the Royal Television Society, but that was the implication of his argument...

25 Sep 2019

The rise of the hippie conservatives

24 Sep 2019

Who gives a **** about England? A Labour fringe event entitled ‘Who gives a(nything) about England?’ this afternoon answered its own question when two of the four panellists didn’t even show up...

23 Sep 2019

Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest Some of our favourite signs from the climate change protest in Westminster...

20 Sep 2019

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

19 Sep 2019

Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems

18 Sep 2019

Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?

17 Sep 2019

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

16 Sep 2019

Charles Clarke interview: what we got wrong on globalisation

11 Sep 2019

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

05 Sep 2019

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

03 Sep 2019

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

02 Sep 2019

Welcome to The Post

02 Sep 2019

The Brexit endgame begins

29 Aug 2019

Who wants to be ‘boosted’ by Boris?

30 Jul 2019

Immigration, citizenship and those “go home” tweets

18 Jul 2019

Why Polly Toynbee is wrong about God

15 Jul 2019

Farage has found Boris’s weak spot

01 Jul 2019