Mass unemployment is not inevitable — it's a policy choice. Credit: Getty.
December 17, 2025

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

Monday
15.12

15.12

New hate speech bill reflects Canada’s widening sectarian divisions The country must be more than the sum of its persecution complexes

Michael Cuenco

15.12

Rob Reiner’s liberal optimism shaped a generation of cinema His films had a moral centre but didn’t preach

Ralph Leonard

15.12
‘It was always building towards something as awful as Bondi.’ Credit: Getty

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

Kyle Orton

15.12

The dark side of the global surrogacy market Chinese billionaires are procuring armies of children with US passports

Mary Harrington

15.12

Zelensky’s Nato concession is an admission of reality The promise of membership was never credible

Bethany Elliott

15.12

Stripping Net Zero powers won’t solve London’s housing crisis Labour is falling well short of what's required

John Myers

Sunday
14.12

14.12

John Cena’s retirement spells end of apolitical American life He was a bridge to a time before hyper-partisanship

Oliver Bateman

14.12
Australian Jews have been sounding the alarm for years. Credit: Getty

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Limor Simhony Philpott

14.12

Why have half of secondary school pupils been off with anxiety? We are rewarding self-limiting behaviours

Kristina Murkett

Saturday
13.12

13.12

Losing dive bars will crush neighbourhood life No rooftop lounge or cocktail bar can replicate these defining third spaces

Ryan Zickgraf

13.12
The Secretary General is wrong to scaremonger. Credit: Getty

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Anatol Lieven

13.12

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other? Alarmist coverage is running ahead of the evidence

David Paton

Friday
12.12

12.12

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK Mass immigration has prompted a rethink

Samuel Rubinstein

12.12

Great British Railways rebrand is hollow nostalgia Our train system should be a source of national pride, not an embarrassment

Niall Gooch

12.12
'The Pathways trial is the institutional repetition of a mistake we already made.' Credit: Getty

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

12.12

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses Leaked US documents prove that Brussels has no plan for peace or war

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday
11.12

11.12

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit? Maduro’s fall may be imminent, but a vacuum will be far more dangerous

Tom Rogan

11.12

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label Globalisation is giving us cheap, homogenised culture

Mattia Ferraresi

11.12

Tim Pool-Candace Owens feud reveals emptiness of e-politics Angry conspiracism is what passes as culture in our mimetic online world

Mary Harrington

11.12
New pals. Credit: Jordan Bardella

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

Peter Franklin

11.12

ECHR law changes won’t stop Britain’s activist lawyers Politics is increasingly limiting an independent judiciary

Chris Bayliss

Wednesday
10.12

10.12
Almost half of the Golden State's job loses were from the tech industry.  Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty.

California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run

Joel Kotkin

10.12

Why do so many Scottish pupils have additional support needs? Almost half of the country’s schoolchildren require assistance in education

Nina Welsch

10.12

Cutting police forces is a Government power grab Shabana Mahmood is seeking a more centralised model

Dominic Adler

10.12

Bisexuality plummets among Gen Z in UK ONS figures suggest we have reached the other side of a sexual revolution

Eric Kaufmann