‘Aside from the sadism involved, lobster is hugely overrated.’ Credit: Getty
23 Dec 2025 - 2:50pm

Boiling lobsters alive is needless macho brutality Labour’s plan to ban the practice is long overdue

Julie Bindel

23.12

Killing off NCHIs won’t solve Britain’s policing dilemma Online behaviour will still be treated as criminal

Dominic Adler

23.12

Silver boom could lead to Eighties-style recession Investors are betting on precious metals as uncertainty surrounds fiat currencies

John Rapley

23.12
There is no natural constituency for a self-consciously Christian political message. Credit: Getty

Christianity has not returned to British politics

Niall Gooch

Monday
22.12

22.12

Will China step in to defend Venezuela? Beijing has warned against any ‘unilateral bullying’

Miquel Vila

22.12

JD Vance: Ukraine will eventually lose Donetsk The Vice President claimed that Kyiv privately accepts it will not hold the city

Rob Lownie

22.12

Why are Zoomers embracing extremist ideas? Young Americans are taking too many lessons from social media

Joel Kotkin

22.12
'The soft Left has already broken the back of Starmer’s ministry.' Credit: Getty

Voters would bear cost of Ed Miliband chancellorship

Henry Hill

22.12

Kemi Badenoch can’t evade the coalition question forever A premature alignment with either Farage or Starmer could be costly for her

Peter Franklin

Sunday
21.12

21.12

Are liberals ready to welcome back Dave Chappelle? The comedian is punching Right again

Oliver Bateman

21.12

David Walliams shows ideology matters more than conduct Mouthing the right platitudes protected the comedian for too long

Josephine Bartosch

21.12
Christmas markets have become ho ho horrible. Credit: Getty.

Globalisation has killed the Christmas market

Loic Fremond

Saturday
20.12

20.12

October 7 inquiry risks entrenching Netanyahu’s power Loyalists on the panel may turn the investigation into a whitewash

David Swift

20.12
The future of boxing. Credit: Getty

Boxing was a circus long before Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul

Rob Lownie

Friday
19.12

19.12

Putin press conference shows why peace remains distant Russia’s President tried to remain bullish in the face of Ukrainian attacks

Bethany Elliott

19.12

OpenAI deal could cement Amazon’s dominance The company will be selling cloud services at a price no one else can match

Gavin Haynes

19.12

Failed Russian assets scheme punctures Europe’s delusion Attempts to frustrate Trump’s Ukraine deal have fallen short

Wolfgang Munchau

19.12
Is Britain’s police prepared to deal seriously with VAWG? Credit: Getty

Labour’s violence against women plan is empty posturing

Joan Smith

Thursday
18.12

18.12

Even some Democrats are breaking ranks on trans Marjorie Taylor Greene’s legislation is long overdue

Lisa Selin Davis

18.12

English Heritage’s Christmas revisionism is a sign of cultural decline British institutions are promoting pseudo-history

Adam James Pollock

18.12

Vivek Ramaswamy fights a losing battle against the Groypers Republican activists prefer Nick Fuentes to the party establishment

Oliver Bateman

18.12
Destigmatisation has its downsides. Credit: Getty

Scotland is making a dangerous bet on medical cannabis

Iain Macwhirter

18.12

Looser EV rules reveal cracks in Europe’s green strategy Plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars have been softened

Franklin Okeke

Wednesday
17.12

17.12

Why does Trump World keep speaking with liberal journalists? White House cooperation with unfriendly media has repeatedly backfired

Emily Jashinsky

17.12
For Labour, the Chagossians aren’t the right kind of victims. Credit: Getty

Chagossians will not be silenced by Western guilt

Tom Ough

17.12

UK youth unemployment is nearing crisis point One in seven young people are not in work

Andrew O'Brien

17.12

Is Kemi Badenoch really pulling Tories back from the brink? Conservative electoral decline is demographically predestined

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
16.12

16.12
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression cited 'an uptick in attempts by the political right to silence speech in 2025'. Credit: Getty

US college censorship hits record high in 2025

UnHerd Staff

16.12

Susie Wiles: Trump believes Putin wants all of Ukraine A new report has revealed a stark assessment of the Russian leader’s ambitions

Archie Earle

16.12

Defending FGM sanitises abuse of women British academics are making excuses for an abhorrent practice

Josephine Bartosch

16.12
Britain can’t afford to fall behind in what may prove to be the next industrial revolution. Credit: Getty

The British case for data centres

Henry Hill

16.12

If a coup doesn’t fell Starmer, next year’s elections will Talk of regicide is reaching fever pitch but no replacement is likely to do any better

David Littlefair