Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question The billionaire gave a weirdly content-free statement to Devi Sridhar

Omicron update: London followed Gauteng after all Britain's most prestigious scientists managed to deny the obvious

Pieter Streicher

Tuesday

11.01

The Downing Street party was almost certainly illegal Some attendees could be convicted

Lords amendment on single-sex prisons withdrawn Women are vulnerable in the prison estate, but many still doesn't understand this

The roots of Novak Djokovic’s vaccine hesitancy The athlete's worldview was built from a lifetime of politics and faith

Italy’s vaccine mandate is purely political Mario Draghi is trying to pin his Government's failures on unvaxxed Italians

Monday

10.01

Where now for Kazakhstan’s dictator emeritus? He thrived for three decades, but Nursultan Nazerbayev's time has finally run out

David Bowie at 75: why Germany will remember him He is a crucial part of Cold War history

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s The former Brexit chief chooses to ignore Britain's productivity crisis

Labour’s support for indy candidates in Scotland will backfire Triangulating with the SNP is a tactical disaster

Repeat after me: Covid doesn’t spread on surfaces Will we ever move beyond outdated advice?

Friday

07.01

Novak Djokovic is Covid’s ritual sacrifice His punishment reassures the faithful that their struggle was not in vain

Park MacDougald

How many years behind the US is Britain? A new system tell us the answer — economically, at least

Police campaign paints terrorists as victims The latest counter-terrorism PR effort is frankly bizarre

The manufacturing of consensus Bodies like Stonewall are falsely creating an imprimatur of civil demand

Mary Harrington

Multiple scenes of police brutality at anti-lockdown protests in Holland Grim footage shows protestors being bitten by dogs and hit by batons

Thursday

06.01

It’s Valérie Pécresse, not Zemmour, that Macron fears Unlike the populists, the centre-Right candidate could assemble a coalition

In defence of the Colston Four verdict A jury’s power to acquit without giving reasons is a bulwark against tyranny

JK Rowling is no antisemite For most British Jews she is a heroine

Stephen Pollard

No, what happened on Jan 6 was not a coup A large, noisy and colourful gathering cannot possibly constitute a coup d'état

Wednesday

05.01

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022 For the first time in years, Labour has plausible alternatives

Tesla faces mounting complaints even as share price grows All is not smooth going at the world's most valuable car company

Philip Pilkington

Another set of panicked headlines about incels The media is determined to identify a new danger to society

‘Mass formation psychosis’ gets a warning from Google Robert Malone's mentioned it on Joe Rogan — so the search engine acted

Andrew Orlowski

Tuesday

04.01

What have Scotland and Wales’ Covid rules achieved? Not a lot, suggests the latest data

Norman Mailer is reaping the anti-whiteness he sowed The writer only has himself to blame for the cancellation of his work

Bitcoin is not worth the energy Why use renewables and wasted energy to power Ponzi schemes?

Danish health chiefs eye Sweden’s low Omicron rate Cases and deaths are dramatically lower than neighbours

Macron challenges Germany for EU dominance Energy is the latest strain on the Franco-German alliance

Monday

03.01

A win for common sense at the Girls’ Day School Trust The body deferred to established law, not Stonewall law

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview The correspondents' annual predictions say more about them than anything else

Friday

31.12

2021: Year in review with Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year

Beijing casts a wary eye on the Metaverse China’s intelligence community ponders the risks of virtual reality

Thursday

30.12

The Online Right cancels one of its own Masculinity influencer Jack Murphy has been brutally banished for being a 'cuck'

Mary Harrington

A glimpse of better housing in South Tottenham A new development shows that building homes need not be a zero-sum game

Nicholas Boys Smith

Is Liz Truss set to be the new Alec Douglas-Home? Ideas about the Foreign Secretary taking over are eerily reminiscent

Wednesday

29.12

Was this the week England stopped worrying about Covid? Pundits and the public are turning against restrictions

Omicron in South Africa: even milder than expected Every number has come in under the projection

Pieter Streicher

Tuesday

28.12

The Covid wars ruined Germany’s Christmas My home country is being pulled into familiar conflicts

If Jeremy Hunt is such an expert on the NHS, why didn’t he fix it? The former health secretary wasted his time in charge

Monday

27.12

Banning online trolls from football is an empty gesture A new anti-racism policy won't fix anything

Andrew Orlowski

Adam McKay: another satirist lost to activism His latest film's agenda is painfully obvious

Sunday

26.12

Boxing Day need not be an anti-climax The Feast of Stephen is just the beginning

Saturday

25.12

Why celebrating Christmas is the rational thing to do Cultures need myths to survive

Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday

24.12

Why do I spend so much time on TikTok? There's a reason I'm on the app for four hours a day

The world’s most powerful space telescope is finally launching After a 30-year wait, the James Webb Space Telescope is heading to space

Donald Trump is winning vaccine politics The former president is doubling down on his biggest achievement

The case against Liz Truss No one better reflects the vacuity of contemporary politics

Thursday

23.12

The glamour of Joan Didion The writer could make meaninglessness matter

Joe Manchin: the last blue dog Democrat The Virginia Senator no longer fits in today's Party

Marshall Auerback

Mark Drakeford’s nonsense Covid rules are back Yet again the Welsh leader is using the virus for political purposes

Jack Dorsey’s big idea for a crypto future The Twitter founder's vision could be paradise or hell on earth

Wednesday

22.12

Kyle Rittenhouse: the latest Right-wing celebrity The acquitted shooter joins a long line of accidental political pin-ups

Why South Africans are refusing the vaccine Brian Pottinger talks to Freddie Sayers about his country's response to Covid

Government: lockdowns hurt minority groups most A new report makes for grim reading

“Non-crime hate incidents” aren’t gone yet Thousands of false allegations will still be recorded on scant evidence

Tuesday

21.12

Hispanics are turning away from Joe Biden A new poll finds that 65% of Latinos disapprove of the President

Caroline Nokes is confused about gender self-ID It's necessary to know people's birth sex

No one should cheer Rachel Riley’s libel triumph Her victory could have a stifling effect

The trouble with Nadhim Zahawi’s ex-teacher army The Education Secretary's big idea sounds better than it is

Kristina Murkett

What the non-decision on lockdown means The political atmosphere has fundamentally shifted

Monday

20.12

Farewell to the ‘non-hate crime incident’ Harry Miller won an important victory

Richard Rogers’ most important work was not his architecture His commitment to traditional urbanism remained highly influential

Nicholas Boys Smith

SAGE’s doomsday predictions are damaging public trust Dramatic Covid models are increasingly greeted with cynicism

The CCP gets religious about Karl Marx The largest atheist organisation in the world has started using Godly language

Sunday

19.12

The Scout Association apologises to Maya Forstater over ‘misgendering’ Another victory for gender critical feminists

Friday

17.12

Only the Treasury can control Sturgeon and Drakeford Rishi Sunak's 'big bazooka' can ensure a unified policy response to Covid

Vox discovers Western esotericism — 100 years late The publication mistakes an ancient set of beliefs for something new

The Supreme Court rejects non-gendered passports A welcome judgement from the UK's highest court

Brexit can no longer save Boris The PM's defeat in Shropshire North shows that the UK has moved on from 2016

Alan Wager and Anand Menon

The Fed risks losing all credibility over inflation Jerome Powell faces the unenviable choice of a market crash or inflation

Philip Pilkington

Thursday

16.12

It’s time for the West to engage with the Taliban As a winter crisis looms, the Afghan people need our support more than ever

A superforecaster’s guide to the North Shropshire by-election The Tories have a much stronger chance than the bookies believe

Millions of adults can’t be boostered The aim of jabbing everyone by the new year has been doomed from the start

Cases of Covid fatigue reach an all time high New research shows that people are tuning out of the virus

Europe’s biggest economy is on the brink Germany's economic forecast is looking increasingly bleak

Wednesday

15.12

Billie Eilish tells us what we already know about porn The singer said that it destroyed her brain at a young age

Mary Harrington

Deep data dive: is Omicron the end of the pandemic? Pieter Streicher makes the case for cautious optimism in South Africa

Cummings was right about mavericks in Government A new report suggests recruitment in Westminster needs shaking up

Andrew Orlowski

We had rights before the Human Rights Act We can do without the 1998 Act — common law does a better job anyway

Tuesday

14.12

Is Ghislaine Maxwell winning? The prosecution is having a torrid time so far

Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created Freddie Sayers spoke to Larry Sanger about why he left