01/09/2020 - 6:07pm

Did Twitter anti-diplomacy prevent war with Iran? Among his many skills, Trump is the master practitioner of social media

Why liberals can’t understand English pride The sense of Englishness was heightened among those who voted for Brexit

Polyamory is just a sly way to make cheating seem virtuous I can't imagine anything worse than being told its wrong to mind

Wednesday, January 8

Ursula von der London The EU President focused on the one bit of Britain that Brussels never had to worry about

WATCH: Tory MPs erupt into cheers as Margaret Thatcher is mentioned Will voters in northern ex-mining towns feel as warmly?

Can churches solve Britain’s age segregation problem? They provide one of the few opportunities for different generations to mix

Mary Harrington

Here’s a better idea for reforming Whitehall It's not about re-organising departments, it's about dedicated teams

Tuesday, January 7

Let’s hear it for the Left-wing regressives! All this talk of progress among Labour hopefuls is missing the point

What’s minimalism trying to hide? Minimalist products depend on a maximalist production chain — and that chain is exploitative and wasteful

Let’s re-do the Political Studies Association awards Here are five alternative winners for 2019...

Monday, January 6

Ricky Gervais is a fool — in all the right ways The comedian's stinging criticism of the Hollywood elite takes a stand against 'anti-comedy'

Are human rights overtaking democracy? Lord Sumption raises important questions about the mission creep of human rights

Lisa Nandy on social conservatism and Dominic Cummings The Labour leadership contender spoke to UnHerd about how communities can protect their culture

Saturday, January 4

Studying Classics shouldn’t be an elite pursuit People forget the long tradition of working class study of the Classics

Mary Harrington

Friday, January 3

Watch: Yarom Hazony in a fiery debate on nationalism The academic locks horns with columnist Bret Stephens at Princeton University

Conservatives should capture the Green movement It's time to re-discover the long-lost conservative environmentalist tradition

Thursday, January 2

Green means going local in globalised Vancouver A sign in a pile of potatoes saying 'BC first' taught me a lot...

Can patriotism be progressive? A seemingly innocuous statement has triggered a heated debate on the Left

Wednesday, January 1

Race is a bad way to target a scholarship — black or white Once you start going down the road of dividing people by their race, there's no going back

Will China end America’s culture wars? China is one thing that unites American conservatives and liberals

Tuesday, December 31

The top 5 climbers and fallers in the world of ideas From trade wars to identity politics, the 2010s was an interesting decade...

Mary Harrington

If Labour want help with patriotism, they should read Orwell

Monday, December 30

Greens need to starting talking solutions The Today programme should give a platform to someone like Michael Liebreich

The British answer to the Benedict Option The instinct to turn away from mainstream society is found far beyond American Christians

Friday, December 27

Is it immoral to let children believe in Santa? Make-believe stories exist and are sustained precisely because we believe in them

Thursday, December 26

Are the Christians turning away from Donald Trump? Upsets at two Christian publications have put the President's evangelical support in question

WATCH: 10 Christmas day messages From the Queen to Kevin Spacey, our selection of the interesting and the bizarre

Wednesday, December 25

Three myths about social conservatives Unhelpfully, social and cultural conservatives are often used interchangeably

Tuesday, December 24

Leave your echo chambers this Christmas Many of us have lost the habit of navigating political differences

Mary Harrington

Monday, December 23

The Two Popes is made in liberal Hollywood’s image The film's two main characters are a simplistic representation of two competing worldviews

Saturday, December 21

The dark side of the communitarian idyll What drives people to religious withdrawal in contemporary individualistic America?

Mary Harrington

Friday, December 20

Will Boris fight for middle-aged men? Single middle aged men are the group most likely to commit suicide — and most likely to vote Tory