Mouthing the correct platitudes is a shield. Credit: Getty
December 21, 2025

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

Loïc Frémond

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

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