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?

Our ritual response to Islamist terror Why is the first step always to genuflect before the Muslim community?

Thursday

18.11

Green shoots of common sense at the New York Times Is the Gray Lady aiming to produce more balanced content?

The metaverse is doomed to fail We may be addicted to electronics, but not when they are all-consuming

Who will replace Kamala Harris in 2024? At 28% approval, it’s been an astonishingly bad 2021 for the new vice president

Wednesday

17.11

It’s high time the Government takes psychedelics seriously As a veteran recovering from PTSD, it has helped me immeasurably

Rivian’s order book hints at a bleak green future The company seems to think that cars will become a luxury

Mary Harrington

Is identity politics undermining science? New research illustrates how funding has become politicised

A united Ireland… within the United Kingdom? A humble Kilkenny farmer has an ambitious vision

Inside the Austrian lockdown We visit Vienna to explore the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated

Tuesday

16.11

All eyes on Hungary’s fuel price provocation Extraordinary interventions by Viktor Orbán have unsettled member states

Alexander Faludy

The UK’s ‘rampdown’ plan won’t save us from inflation The economic rescue package is a good start but it is still not enough

Philip Pilkington

Yes, there is an educational divide over ‘wokeness’ There is a political element too

Jeff Bezos’s spaced-out vision for the human race The Amazon founder thinks a trillion people could live in the Solar System

Monday

15.11

Angela Merkel is too soft on Russia The Belarusian crisis shows that Putin's interests are not aligned with Germany’s

Will Éric Zemmour’s Bataclan stunt backfire? The polemicist has been accused of capitalising on the 2015 terror attacks

What Durham University doesn’t understand about sex work The student union can't make an inherently dangerous industry 'more safe'

Kristina Murkett

Inside Austria’s lockdown for the unvaccinated I've been speaking to people on the street to find out what they think

American voters prefer populism to wokeness Especially if they're working class

FW de Klerk: a great South African let down by the ANC He and Nelson Mandela held the country together after apartheid was lifted

Brian Pottinger

Friday

12.11

Travis Scott’s therapy app won’t heal your trauma After the Astroworld crush the last thing people need is BetterHelp

Instagram censorship will only help the conspiracies The medical group Cochrane has been shadow-banned by Instagram

Increasing MPs salaries is a good bet If it stands a chance of increasing the quality of candidates, what is there to lose?

Thursday

11.11

Asra Nomani: Mama Bears are the future of American politics How one parent-protester took on Critical Race Theory and won

The legacy of Adam Boulton The broadcaster pioneered rolling news — but are we the wiser for it?

Sorry, but Google is not the GDR Internet privacy activists have been captured by their own paranoia

Andrew Orlowski

The New York Times’ fake ‘Brexit brain drain’ Will the Grey Lady ever get its facts right about the UK?

Wednesday

10.11

The BBC finally dumps Stonewall The charity's capture of national institutions is finally being challenged

Young people turn against Critical Race Theory in Virginia The cohort is less Left-wing than older millennials are

Being ‘LGBT’ has become cosplay for millennials Sexual identity has become a jamboree of naff posing

San Francisco is living the neo-Feudal dream Its super-elites, serf class and biosecurity state are a pointer of things to come

Mary Harrington

Is Austin the global free speech capital? The Texas city is becoming a home for eccentrics and dissenters

Tuesday

09.11

The Franco-British fish war is far from over Reports in the Daily Mail are misleading

Polish border is the new Fortress Europe in action The border squabble with Belarus shows how far the EU has moved since 2015

Will Viktor Orbán’s Balkan gamble pay off? The Hungarian PM is interfering in Bosnia's affairs

Alexander Faludy

Soviet GP plan takes ‘Levelling Up’ to new lows Regional inequality can't be fixed with sloganeering

Universities — not the Government — should cover tuition fee losses A new report argues that they should bear the cost

Kristina Murkett

Monday

08.11

Dr Raghib Ali: No UK lockdown this Christmas The doctor tells Freddie Sayers that the UK's Covid outlook isn't so bad

There’s nothing new about selling honours Savvy countries will always find a way of turning corruption into tax

Could a revived SDP break through? A large and diverse conference suggests that the Party is on the up

Therapists must be allowed to question gender identity The plan to ban "conversion therapy" is being too broadly defined

Saturday

06.11

NASA’s religious quest for UFOs The space agency is channelling ancient human desires

Friday

05.11

There is nothing disruptive about the Metaverse The plan is for a smooth transition, entrenching the existing powers

Conservatives need a culture war Blitzkrieg The Right cannot embroil itself in an endless conflict — victory must be swift

The NHS vaccine mandates aren’t what they seem The Government is — once again — trying to nudge us

Fear is gripping Addis Ababa The spectre of full-blown civil war now looms in Ethiopia

Thursday

04.11

How trans activists reacted to Kathleen Stock’s resignation Various outlets expressed horror, and even a sense of growing danger

Boris was wrong to U-turn on Owen Paterson The so-called sleaze affair is nothing compared to previous scandals

Vaccine mandates are a body blow to a faltering economy The impact is far worse than foreseen, and the timing is terrible

Philip Pilkington

The Lib Dems are deluded on the environment Nuclear is the only way they could achieve their ambitious climate goals

Wednesday

03.11

Is Christopher Rufo a Right-wing Leninist? A new movement emerges at the National Conservatism conference

Mary Harrington

Critical Race Theory blows it for Democrats in Virginia A shocking victory for the Republicans came from battles over education

Insulate Britain founder’s extremist manifesto Roger Hallam argues that action needs to be fearless and illegal

Banning ‘complex language’ from exams won’t help my students The latest round of dumbing down exams is cynical and depressing

Kristina Murkett

Tuesday

02.11

Imprisoning Twitter trolls is a dangerous game It may feel morally righteous, but it's entirely subjective

Bjorn Lomborg: 7 myths about climate change The Danish academic challenges common misconceptions

Young people turn against Joe Biden Support among 18-24 year olds has plummeted, spelling trouble for 2024

Is Olaf Scholz anything more than a mini Merkel? The pair's weirdly harmonious relationship was on full display in Rome

A war on universities won’t help free speech We need to fix these institutions, not destroy them

Monday

01.11

Nobody can reform the National Trust The charity has become the most conservative force in England

Has the Taliban’s Supreme Leader come back from the dead? Nobody really knows if Hibatullah Akhundzada is alive or not

UnHerd picks: October’s best Substacks Featuring Dr Fauci, cancellations, anti-natalism, and extreme weather

Robinhood: the latest pseudo revolutionary of finance The embattled trading platform was never going to disrupt the powers that be

Friday

29.10

When will state-sponsored clock-twiddling end? When the clocks go back this weekend, they should stay there

Americans turn against Black Lives Matter A majority of adults now oppose the movement