09/27/2019 - 12:18pm
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...
Freddie Sayers
27.09
How much is a prayer worth? Economists have been trying to put a monetary value on prayer by testing how willing people are to pay for it...
Elizabeth Oldfield
26.09
Why “Green Growth” is a have your cake and eat it philosophy I believe Greta is correct when she speaks of “fairy tales of economic growth”...
Giles Fraser
26.09
Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet Amid the continuing tumult of Greta-mania and Greta-phobia, Jeff MacMahon of Forbes has noticed something in Thunberg's words that everyone else has missed...
Peter Franklin
26.09
Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson
Freddie Sayers
25.09
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...
Freddie Sayers
25.09
Meanwhile in America… President Yang? We should be paying more attention to the race for the Democratic nomination...
Peter Franklin
24.09
Stephen Kinnock Interview: the Labour Party is in danger I sat down with Stephen Kinnock MP at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, to discuss his prospective Brexit deal and the future of the party...
Paul Embery
24.09
The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution I told you so. The other week on UnHerd, I argued that it is time that the UK had a proper written constitution...
Peter Franklin
24.09
Greta may be right, but the spectacle is wrong It makes me uncomfortable to watch a child in distress...
Ed West
23.09
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...
Freddie Sayers
23.09
Who benefits from slavery reparations?
Mary Harrington
23.09
The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals The term ‘evangelical’ has been so distorted by American politics that is meaning is now a million miles away from that of its historical formulation...
Giles Fraser
21.09
‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton You know something has really hit the mainstream when Alain de Botton starts talking about it...
Giles Fraser
20.09
Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest Some of our favourite signs from the climate change protest in Westminster...
Freddie Sayers
20.09
Don’t miss today’s good news on climate Amid the Climate Strike protests, real progress is being made towards a low carbon economy – not least in Britain, where we got some more good news today...
Peter Franklin
20.09
New book puts John Rawls in the dock The dominance of Rawls' brand of Liberalism has held back philosophy for decades, according to a Harvard professor...
Giles Fraser
19.09
Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love
Freddie Sayers
19.09
A timely defence of “stubborn gladness” Am I allowed to feel joyful? It's an argument I often have with myself. This new book of poems by Christian Wiman helps point to an answer...
Elizabeth Oldfield
19.09
You wouldn’t think it, but David Lammy was once a thoughtful MP Lammy’s meltdown over Brexit, his descent into the worst kind of racial politics.
Paul Embery
18.09
Tucker Carlson: America’s most important pundit
Ed West
18.09
Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right
Peter Franklin
18.09
Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems
Freddie Sayers
18.09
Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…
Peter Franklin
17.09
What happened to diplomatic etiquette?
Ella Whelan
17.09
Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?
Freddie Sayers
17.09
A dangerous moment for democracy
Giles Fraser
16.09
Why’s Verhofstadt bigging up empire?
Ed West
16.09
What’s wrong with the weekend news?
Peter Franklin
16.09
Watch: the lone Lib Dem speaking out against revoking Article 50
Freddie Sayers
14.09
Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom
Mary Harrington
13.09
Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet
Peter Franklin
