Get ready for exams to be cancelled… again The return of teacher-assessed grades now looks inevitable

Kristina Murkett

Austin pays the price for defunding the police The city experienced a record number of murders this year

Monday

13.12

The Anglo-French fish war ends without victory A breakthrough in Brussels this weekend

Why I’m voting against Plan B Covid restrictions We must not normalise invasive and discriminatory restrictions

Emmanuel Macron pays Viktor Orbán a visit An unlikely alliance is forming between Paris and the central European state

Alexander Faludy

The NYT’s latest hit job backfires The paper's attack on a suicide forum ended up driving membership

Saturday

11.12

Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Donald Trump Freddie Sayers speaks to the columnist and commentator about the crisis in America

Friday

10.12

Don’t fret — Notre-Dame can survive a facelift A modern twist to the cathedral's interior can always be swept away again

Nicholas Boys Smith

Emmanuel Macron kickstarts his re-election campaign The president hopes that an optimistic message will serve as a counter to Zemmour's declinism

Feelings don’t care about your facts Sporting achievement is now secondary to more subjective considerations

Mary Harrington

The Japanification of the Eurozone ECB holdings of government debt are now very close to Japanese levels

Thursday

09.12

Joe Biden is turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants An extreme drop in deportations has coincided with a nationwide crimewave

New Zealand’s smoking ban will backfire Making it illegal to sell cigarettes to future generations will create a black market

Hispanic Americans are no longer ‘minority voters’ We are witnessing a generational shift in voting patterns among Latino voters

Elon Musk is right: declining birth rates are a threat to civilisation He may have cynical motives, but his point stands

Wednesday

08.12

The NFT bubble will burst The mania over digital tokens bears familiar hallmarks

Our grammar school system is broken Regional inequalities are hindering social mobility

Kristina Murkett

What drugs on TV tell us about media elites Their world is more removed from reality than ever

Has Omicron wrong-footed the Covid elites? The peak in Gauteng, South Africa, may come sooner than expected

Tuesday

07.12

Don’t make misogyny a hate crime The state should focus on violence against women — not hurt feelings

Bitcoin is more than a Wall Street plaything The cryptocurrency can offer freedom from surveillance and government control

How America’s progressive citadels became crime centres Left-wing policies have been a disaster in the US's most liberal cities

The Nowzad decision looks more absurd than ever Damning evidence shows that Farthing's dogs cost human lives

Night workers deserve to be seen Over three million employees do their jobs while the rest of us are asleep

Zemmour is just the beginning France is moving dramatically Rightwards — and it's time the Brits took notice

Monday

06.12

Parliament can — and should — override judges The UK legislature is, after all, the ultimate repository of sovereignty

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ death shows the dark side of lockdowns Domestic abuse skyrocketed when restrictions were in place

California mathematicians turn against woke curriculum A group of 500 teachers and scientists have objected to a politicised syllabus

Please stay out of Africa, Tony Blair This continent has bigger problems than Covid

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Bob Dole: the Republican Machiavelli The former Senate leader backed Trump when few others would

Why Bitcoin is tracking the stock market It has become dominated by speculative day traders

Philip Pilkington

Saturday

04.12

Kathleen Stock: I won’t be silenced The Sussex University professor resigned after an aggressive campaign of targeted harassment over her views.

Friday

03.12

Could France have its first female president next year? Valérie Pécresse may pose a bigger threat to Macron than Éric Zemmour

Labour can’t hide behind a ‘progressive alliance’ The Party is struggling to channel anti-government discontent

We are all turning into cyberpunks Debates over 'xenobots' and abortion are making it harder to know what is human

Mary Harrington

Don’t count on university alumni to protect free speech Some donors are applying pressure — but others are fighting back

Thursday

02.12

Inside Australia’s Covid internment camp Freddie Sayers spoke to Hayley Hodgson, who has returned from a 14-day detention

Oxford City Council quietly passes radical trans motion An unchallenged bill on 'trans inclusivity' could threaten single-sex spaces

Oxford Feminist Union

The NHS Covid beds that were never used Managers wasted billions on buying capacity in private hospitals

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes for compulsory vaccination The EU has no power to implement, let alone enforce, such a policy

Wednesday

01.12

Is this the end of Europe’s asylum system? The EU has ruled that it will suspend access for at least six months

The vaccine programme won’t stop inflation The Federal Reserve can't keep using Covid as an excuse

Philip Pilkington

The new ingredient in the dating algorithm: human beings It turns out that people are a useful component in matchmaking

Twitter after Jack Dorsey takes a censorious turn The company's privacy update is open to abuse

Park MacDougald

Covid panic is hurting African countries once again The bias towards shutting borders is not as wise as people think

Tuesday

30.11

UnHerd picks: November’s best Substacks Featuring: the Beatles, the end of wokeness, and chronic illnesses

Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer and philosopher about the widening divide

What will masks in schools actually achieve? The lack of logic behind the Government's new Covid guidance is infuriating

Kristina Murkett

Jack Dorsey’s resignation is bad news for free speech The Twitter founder was a liberal on matters of freedom of expression

At last! Labour finally has a recognisable shadow cabinet Until yesterday's reshuffle Keir Starmer appointed political pygmies

Monday

29.11

We may never know the full truth about the Axum massacre What happened on a 24-hour killing spree in Tigray last year remains unclear

Left and Right unite against M&S building plans The planned demolition of Orchard House has angered traditionalists and environmentalists

Wanted: firefighters that can rescue people from fires The Fire Service's recruitment policy is no longer based on efficacy alone

Why young Kurds are migrating to Europe This is a crisis built on aspiration, not desperation

Daniel Hardaker

Sunday

28.11

Stephen Sondheim, unlikely giant of musical theatre He was Broadway's poet of loneliness, alienation, and failure

Saturday

27.11

Why the change to masking rules will make people angry Introducing arbitrary rules that won't be effective has a cost

Friday

26.11

Vice News has an incel problem Fearmongering will only push the community further underground

Vladimir Putin may roll the dice on Ukraine America's commitment to defending the country is very uncertain

Dr Who doesn’t make young men commit crime Politicians should stop taking pop culture so seriously

Why George Floyd was turned into performance art The internet has radically re-shaped how we consume and create

Mary Harrington

Macron’s predatory deal with Draghi France is exploiting the newly signed Quirinale Treaty for its own ends

Thursday

25.11

Has the UK reached herd immunity? Professor Neil Ferguson believes we are almost there

French vaccine rule triggers violent protests in Guadeloupe Mandatory vaccination for emergency workers has led to island-wide demonstrations

Three big decisions Boris got right on Covid The PM made some tough but ultimately correct calls

Germany’s new Government surrenders to identity politics Olaf Scholz's cabinet has laid out an extremely progressive agenda

Wednesday

24.11

The melancholy decline of the semicolon Researchers found that it is becoming rarer in British fiction

Is Britain on track for a rail renaissance? The re-opening of Okehampton in Devon sets a hopeful precedent

Crypto books can bypass woke publishers A politicised industry has opened up a space for Internet self-starters

Jordan Peterson heals old wounds with Cambridge return Two years after he was cancelled, the psychologist spoke at the university

Who is Éric Zemmour? We investigate the Right-wing polemicist running for the French presidency

Tuesday

23.11

Acting dynasties are ruining TV Casting for The Crown reminds us that success is born, not earned

A new player in the culture war: the Islamo-Right Antipathy for globalism and liberalism has drawn two disparate sides together

The sinister stunt against JK Rowling The narcissistic arrogance of certain trans activists is staggering

Male teachers labelled ‘paedos’ on TikTok The online platform has been a breeding ground for male abuse by students

Kristina Murkett

Memo to economists: inflation was caused by lockdown Why are the experts in denial about the obvious?

Philip Pilkington

Monday

22.11

Benenden’s head is wrong on wokeness The girls' school head is the latest actor in the culture wars

Margaret Thatcher’s fall is a warning for Boris Johnson The Iron lady's downfall came faster than she had thought possible

Which way will Germany’s new chancellor go on defence? Rising tensions in Europe will require its largest economy to arm itself

What does waning immunity mean for the long term? Reaching endemic equilibrium with Covid will have some bumps along the way

Friday

19.11

Brigitte Macron says ‘non merci’ to gender neutral pronouns Linguists fear 'le wokism' is set to destroy the language of love

Éric Zemmour vs Stéphane Bern: a battle over the soul of France Despite their common history, these men have different visions for their country

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

The Erdogan era approaches the endgame Turks are turning against the president — but would he leave without a fight?