Globalisation has ruined Hollywood These days it's nothing but sequels and movie ‘franchises’

Judith Butler: neoliberalism’s accidental cheerleader The theorist can't see that a world without boundaries is profoundly un-feminist

Mary Harrington

Why are liberals blind to vaccine passport discrimination? They are backing a plainly illiberal policy that will deepen racial division

Friday

22.10

The latest advocates for magic mushrooms? High Tories Crispin Blunt urged the PM to look into their exciting potential

Does Germany have a mercenary problem? Private armies have a long and undistinguished history in the country

Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports? The former PM should find a new pet project

Madeleine Stone

Le Woke has arrived at French newsrooms Intergenerational wars are erupting inside France's liberal bastions

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday

21.10

Dominic Cummings’s advice to Labour: sack Starmer The former chief advisor to Boris Johnson details how Labour can win in 2024

Why the West should keep buying cheap crap It isn't that bad for the environment and it benefits poorer countries

The Assisted Dying bill is based on shaky evidence Baroness Meacher’s proposed 'safeguards' are unsafe and unwise

Sajid is right: we don’t need more restrictions Nothing in the data suggests that it's time for 'Plan B'

Watch out Macron: the Gilet Jaunes are back It may not be Éric Zemmour that the French president has to worry about

Wednesday

20.10

Open borders activists are undermining Joe Biden They don't care if the Democrats lose the midterms, or even the Presidency

The synthetic drugs destroying America Deaths are exploding across all ethnic groups and around the country

University anti-spike boycotts put the onus on women These campaigns might raise awareness, but they are still only symbolic

Kristina Murkett

Welcome to Team TERF, Margaret Atwood The writer seems to have accepted the implications of her worldview

Mary Harrington

It’s a demand problem, not a supply chain crisis The pinch is global, and the cause is misunderstood

Tuesday

19.10

Wokeness is giving cover to bullies Children are using social justice rhetoric to pick on others

Come to Poland, Jeremy Clarkson! The Top Gear presenter is loved here more than anywhere else

The UK is letting its army wither A strong Union needs a strong Armed Forces

Monday

18.10

Colin Powell: a would-be President ruined by Iraq He was once described as 'a modern George Washington'

Why the Internet needs anons The tragic murder of an MP should not be used to curtail civil liberties

Viktor Orbán is about to face his biggest challenge yet Hungary's opposition parties may have found a winner in Péter Márki-Zay

Alexander Faludy

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero They are turning attention away from the causes of the energy crisis

Anger and resignation at Green Pass protests in Italy Protestors at this weekend's demonstrations in Milan had little hope

Social mobility, Alexander Hamilton style The American founding father shows us how to make society more equal

Saturday

16.10

The misogyny of trans activists In Portsmouth they behaved like they wanted a war, not dialogue

Friday

15.10

Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall documentary is unmissable The charity was never impartial

The 100 year old Nazi standing trial in Germany It is hard to watch, but justice is being pursued 76 years later

UnHerd picks: The week’s best Substacks Featuring: Salman Rushdie, Civil Rights law, and advice from Dominic Cummings

Thursday

14.10

Yes, Edmund Burke is British The philosopher was British — something that infuriates Remainers

A message to Matt Hancock: Africa doesn’t want you The last thing this continent needs is another Covid messiah

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Prince William is wrong: let Bezos go to space! The $7 billion invested in Blue Origin is money well spent

Eastern European populism isn’t going anywhere yet The Czech Prime Minister was ousted this week — but Orbán is safe for now

The question the Covid report failed to answer What is most revealing about the new study is what it leaves out

Wednesday

13.10

Is Boris spending like a drunken sailor? Beyond Covid, there have been big shifts in Government spending

Stop exploiting women’s fears There's a whole industry around keeping us 'safe'

Raquel Rosario Sánchez

Andrew Yang: already the most interesting 2024 candidate The odds are stacked against him, but his new party deserves attention

Women don’t need ‘fertility seminars’ Dystopian warnings about declining egg quality help no one

Kristina Murkett

Tuesday

12.10

Macron is swapping arrogance for football The President thinks sport is the way to reach voters alienated by his aloof style

The disgraceful treatment of Kathleen Stock It is staggeringly reckless to target a woman in this manner

A $1 trillion platinum coin won’t fix America’s problems It is peak late-stage capitalism

Making misogyny a hate crime is pure window-dressing What would actually help would be to make our streets safe

Mary Harrington

Monday

11.10

What Thomas Cromwell taught us about ambition The chief minister realised too late that careerism would lead to his undoing

Elizabeth Oldfield

Boris must smash the Grey Wall The Conservatives are in thrall to Baby Boomers — it has to change

When will the Left stop telling itself fairy tales? Contrary to claims made in The Guardian, the Tories won fair and square

The retreat of the West is a disaster The French intellectual on Afghanistan, Brexit and Éric Zemmour

Feminist “dinosaurs” are getting organised Protestors outside the Labour Party HQ were embracing David Lammy's label

Josephine Bartosch

There is less pressure to have children than ever before Certain activists are pretending that we're still in the 1950s

Saturday

09.10

Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests When I had Covid, they were remarkably accurate

Friday

08.10

Even Elon Musk is leaving California behind Tesla's departure to Texas is another sign of the blue state's decline

Ireland was better off with Donald Trump Joe Biden is the chief reason for my country's corporate tax hike

The EU is alienating Polish conservatives The judicial reform ruling has driven a wedge between Brussels and Poland

Dave Chappelle is winning the culture wars His closing act has riled up all the right people

The feminist case against vaccine mandates Women should have a right to choose

Thursday

07.10

Found in El Paso: the border wall Biden is paying not to build Acres of wall units are now waiting for cranes that will never come

Olaf Scholz almost certain to become Chancellor Negotiations in Germany have proceeded faster than expected

The media is wrong: Italian populism will be back Even the anti-establishment parties are now seen as too mainstream

Éric Zemmour: I’m encouraged by the latest polls The French polemicist is inching closer to Emmanuel Macron

PCRs are not as reliable as you might think Government policy on testing is worryingly misleading

Wednesday

06.10

Can India contain the Taliban? Historically, it has led the resistance — but this time could be different

The YMCA shows the way to fight a culture war A humble pamphlet at the Tory conference contains a winning formula

The truth about the St Andrews bias test I was made to take the diversity module — it's both tokenistic and patronising

Do we discriminate against boring people? This may be one form of prejudice that we're all overlooking

Tuesday

05.10

Debate: are Conservatives doomed? Peter Hitchens, Ed West, Miriam Cates and Matthew Goodwin joined UnHerd in Manchester

The real supply chain crisis is all at sea The biggest logistics problem is the disruption of the global shipping industry

What happened to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks? The site was outpaced by the very democratising technology that fanned its sails

Michael Gove channels his inner Disraeli Levelling up means everything and nothing — and that's the point

Monday

04.10

A gay man on Playboy fails to smash any stereotypes Bretman Rock's cover feature is still distinctly feminine

Mary Harrington

Bernard Tapie: a most un-French billionaire The disgraced Marseille public figure lived multiple lives and told multiple lies

Chris Loder is right: bring back the milkman! Supply chain disruption could benefit the UK in the long run

Ben Houchen understands ‘Johnsonism’ better than Boris He reminded me of a cross between Michael Heseltine and Leon Trotsky

St Andrews reverts to 16th Century Calvinism Instead of original sin, students now have to acknowledge 'personal guilt'

Kristina Murkett

Saturday

02.10

UnHerd picks: Substacks of the month Featuring: hygiene theatre, Tartaria, prison abolitionists, and Sally Rooney

Friday

01.10

Sack Cressida Dick Someone must pay the consequences for the Met's failures

Why can’t we all live in Disneyland? Theme park architecture is beautiful — city planners should take note

New guidance recognises biological sex in sport The Sports Councils Equality Group came out in defence of women-only sport

Will the Taliban face resistance? Watch Tajikistan World powers are vying for influence in this small Asian country

Thursday

30.09

BBC News reports a non-existent religious revival A poll suggested a boom in religiosity among young people — but it's not true

Robots are teaching us how humans think AI is revealing how our own brains work

Listen to Elon Musk, not Keir Starmer The Tesla founder doesn't hide behind bland PR statements

Tech media has turned anti-tech The reaction to the Metaverse is more revealing than the concept itself