Rob Lownie

is UnHerd's Deputy Editor, Newsroom.

@RobLownie

Marc Andreessen: AI has always been a censorship machine The entrepreneur has claimed technology goes hand in hand with political control

12 Dec 2024

Emmanuel Todd: Nato will disintegrate if Ukraine loses The French thinker has argued that Western hegemony is under threat

09 Oct 2024

Are young Conservatives going extinct? Kemi Badenoch today warned about her party's youth problem

02 Oct 2024

Liz Truss: Britain is already a socialist country The former Tory PM pinned part of the blame on her own party

30 Sep 2024

Will Zia Yusuf’s plan to expand Reform UK succeed? The firing of a senior party strategist suggests a clear-out is underway

26 Sep 2024

The anti-Israel cartoonist dividing Britain’s art crowd

19 Sep 2024

Diane Abbott: Labour is institutionally racist The MP last night accused her party of taking black voters for granted

13 Sep 2024

Liz Truss: we should have followed Swedish model on Covid The former PM told UnHerd that Britain's lockdowns were a mistake

11 Sep 2024

Aaron Sorkin: Democrats should pick Mitt Romney to beat Trump The West Wing writer argued a Republican should replace Biden on the party ticket

21 Jul 2024

How Nigel Farage is courting the Muslim vote Reform UK's huge rally in Birmingham is a sign of things to come

01 Jul 2024

Nigel Farage: Marine Le Pen’s economics would be ‘a disaster’ for France Reform UK's leader is critical of the French populists' big statism

01 Jul 2024

Britain’s young Right wants ‘zero seats’ for the Tories Radical 20-somethings are looking beyond the Conservative Party

29 May 2024

David Davis raises Lucy Letby verdict in Parliament The Conservative MP addressed a New Yorker article challenging the murder verdict

14 May 2024

How to survive the Tory apocalypse

03 May 2024

The Guardian publishes article defending Cass Report Today's edition features an opinion piece from Tavistock whistleblower David Bell

26 Apr 2024

David Nutt: MPs against smoking ban should legalise drugs The former Government adviser accused politicians of 'logical inconsistency'

18 Apr 2024

MPs call for review of Government disinformation unit A Commons committee has questioned the group's pandemic-era censorship

15 Apr 2024

In Scoop, Prince Andrew isn’t the story Netflix's version of the Newsnight interview is an exercise in navel-gazing

06 Apr 2024

Are Russia and China really behind the Kate conspiracies? UK papers have accused foreign actors of spreading disinformation about the Princess

25 Mar 2024

What Lee Anderson used to think about Reform The former Tory wasn't always so gushing about his new party

11 Mar 2024

Sir Patrick Vallance joins Tony Blair Institute The former Government scientist was one of the architects of lockdown

27 Feb 2024

Keir Starmer’s painful road to a ceasefire Labour's Gaza position has changed incrementally in recent months

20 Feb 2024

Gender-critical Stonewall founder named Edinburgh University rector Simon Fanshawe will assume office next month

12 Feb 2024

Stand by for the Liz Truss comeback Today's Popular Conservatism launch used Tory failure as a springboard

06 Feb 2024

We still don’t know the real Keir Starmer ITV's big interview avoided scrutinising Labour's plans for power

19 Jan 2024

Emmanuel Todd: death of Protestantism explains Western decline The French historian claims that religion has lost all influence

10 Jan 2024

Trump terror is back America's liberal media is in a frenzy about the dictator's return

05 Dec 2023

Britain hates to love Nigel Farage His I'm a Celebrity debut was a TV masterclass

20 Nov 2023

New York Times apologises for Gaza coverage The paper joins Sky and the BBC in retracting inaccurate claims about the conflict

23 Oct 2023

How Keir Starmer keeps his charisma secret The private strengths of the Labour leader didn’t come out in today’s speech

10 Oct 2023

Daily Mail is now the only newspaper with a Tory readership A new poll shows that more Telegraph and Express readers intend to vote Labour

07 Oct 2023

Suella Braverman is channelling Jeremy Corbyn The Home Secretary quoted poetry in a rapturous appearance at Tory Conference

03 Oct 2023

Claire Coutinho: Net Zero has become a religion The Energy Secretary blamed activists and Labour for damaging the cause

02 Oct 2023

UK to send fighter jets to Poland amid Russian threat Grant Shapps warned against a possible incursion into Eastern Europe

01 Oct 2023

Arts Council England agrees to pay compensation to feminist The organisation has reached a settlement with Denise Fahmy

20 Sep 2023

Theresa May is rebranding as a national treasure An adoring crowd filled the Southbank Centre last night

15 Sep 2023

Harvard ranked as America’s worst college for free speech The Ivy League university's approach has been labelled 'abysmal'

06 Sep 2023

Is Yevgeny Prigozhin really dead? There are still doubts about the Wagner leader's demise

24 Aug 2023

Could fantasy football help treat gambling addiction? A growing subculture of fans credit the online game for their recovery

15 Aug 2023

British voters: yes to Net Zero, but not if it costs us A new poll shows how shallow support is for green policies

01 Aug 2023

Is Keir Mather too young to be an MP? A slew of youthful politicians have been defeated by the reality of the job

21 Jul 2023

Michael Gove: we asked the ‘daft laddie’ questions over Covid The senior Tory told the pandemic inquiry that politicians are amateurs

13 Jul 2023

Bank of England: digital currency will be a ‘step forward’ But Governor Andrew Bailey had a caveat

10 Jul 2023

SNP’s Mhairi Black: Westminster is a ‘toxic environment’ The Scottish politician is standing down at the next election

04 Jul 2023

UCLA refuses to hire professor who criticised DEI Yoel Inbar's appointment has been blocked by a student petition

28 Jun 2023

One in three Brits believe in Great Replacement Theory A new report shows the depth of mistrust in authority

13 Jun 2023

Rachel Reeves: globalisation is dead The Shadow Chancellor warned that the system has been gamed for too long

24 May 2023

Martin Amis was the last great literary cynic The author has been succeeded by a far more sincere generation

21 May 2023

Sir Richard Dearlove: British elites are China’s useful idiots The former MI6 boss spoke out at a conference today

16 May 2023

Kate Forbes: the public is fed up with censorship The SNP politician spoke out today about intolerance of differing views

09 May 2023

Survey: UK is one of the least racist countries in the world A new report shows widespread acceptance of immigrants and minorities

27 Apr 2023

Sweden: ‘insufficient’ evidence for child hormone treatment A government agency said that the practice should be considered experimental

20 Apr 2023

Liz Truss offers herself as ‘anti-woke’ champion The former PM took aim at identity politics during a speech in Washington

13 Apr 2023

Trust in UK institutions slumps since pre-pandemic Instability and bad decisions have eroded public confidence

30 Mar 2023

Three years on: Britons still support lockdowns New UnHerd polling reveals most of the nation thinks the measure was justified

23 Mar 2023

The Sahel now accounts for nearly half the world’s terrorism Saharan Africa has replaced the Middle East as the epicentre of global terror

17 Mar 2023

Britain is now one of the world’s most socially liberal countries But a socially conservative minority remains substantial

07 Mar 2023

Revealed: Britain’s most green-sceptic towns Support for environmental policies is widespread but not universal

06 Mar 2023

Michael Gove: ‘Woke’ is too nice a word for it The minister says the term trivialises a powerful and destructive force

28 Feb 2023

OSINT picks holes in Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream claims Open-source analysts argue that the journalist's theory doesn't add up

16 Feb 2023

Estonian spy agency: Russia poses ‘credible’ threat to Baltic states An intelligence chief has claimed that Putin has ambitions beyond Ukraine

10 Feb 2023

Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun The French historian says that the West is now in an existential conflict

16 Jan 2023

Study finds science is becoming less innovative There has been a precipitous fall in the number of new discoveries

05 Jan 2023

Who could replace Elon Musk as Twitter’s new CEO? The tech entrepreneur may be stepping down sooner than expected

19 Dec 2022

University of Edinburgh cancels gender identity film screening The shutdown of the event is another case of students stifling campus debate

16 Dec 2022

Sir Jeremy Farrar becomes WHO’s Chief Scientist The professor publicly dismissed the lab leak theory in 2020

14 Dec 2022

Meghan and Harry are right about the royal briefing war Courtiers are the real power behind the throne

09 Dec 2022

ChatGPT is not politically neutral The new AI chatbot espouses an all-too-familiar Left-liberal worldview

07 Dec 2022

Kemi Badenoch: Beware the new authoritarians The politician warned that too many young people want to ban everything

16 Nov 2022

Are Ukrainian weapons falling into criminal hands? A Finnish police chief claimed that guns are illegally circulating in Europe

04 Nov 2022

John Gray: China will act on Taiwan before 2025 The philosopher warned that Xi Jinping is committed to resolving the issue

28 Oct 2022

Trans activists push off-prescription puberty blockers Youngsters are being told to bypass the medical establishment for treatment

25 Oct 2022

Greta Thunberg kills off the anti-nuclear campaign The climate activist's change of heart is only one of many

20 Oct 2022

Deborah Prentice: Cambridge’s lockdown-loving new head The university's new vice-chancellor may prove to be controversial

29 Sep 2022

Excess deaths keep rising across EU The latest figures from July show 15% more deaths than normal

20 Sep 2022

‘Sensitivity readers’ put student journalism in peril Vetting of student papers is the latest move against free speech on campus

29 Jun 2021