The Government Censorship Unit you’ve never heard of The "Counter Disinformation Cell" is monitoring your online statements

Wooden homes: is it time to go back to the future? Beautiful, green and slow to age, this material is a British mainstay

Nicholas Boys Smith

Saturday

04.09

Denmark overtakes Sweden as the restriction-free Nordic nation The government no longer considers Covid-19 a critical threat to society

Friday

03.09

The right way to look at the Bangladesh mask study The evidence isn't conclusive, but then again it rarely is

The ACLU turns against free speech The once-vital group is being captured from within by hyper-partisan activists

Can Macron save Marseille? The President has a plan for France's poorest and most violent city

We don’t need to talk more about our mental health The focus can become all consuming and harmful

Thursday

02.09

Joe Biden has started a war with the Deep State The oldest president in American history has convulsed the old guard

Richard H. Thaler: on vaccines, ‘nudge’ isn’t enough Freddie Sayers challenges the Nobel prize winner and 'Nudge' inventor on the impact of his method

Meet Replika, your new A.I. best friend Are automated relationships the grim future for our atomised society?

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT It may seem ridiculous, but in the crypto world it could be worth billions

Handing weapons to US enemies could have been avoided China, Russia and Iran will be all over the Taliban's new fleet

Jonathon Kitson

Wednesday

01.09

How judges are weaponising vaccines The criminal justice system turns to public health concerns

Why is Rishi Sunak still the most popular politician in the UK? The Chancellor wasted billions on making homes more expensive

Under Taliban rule, ISKP will flourish That there will be no functional state is to the terrorist group's advantage

Tuesday

31.08

Children on antidepressants up 20% — another cost of lockdown? As the school year begins, drug prescriptions are skyrocketing

In Germany, nobody wants to talk about the workers Politicians are staying silent on the crisis in the labour market

The West can learn from China’s crackdown on gaming For years, we have tried — and failed — to restrict access to pornography

Monday

30.08

Britain will come to regret Operation Ark It was absurd to prioritise cats and dogs ahead of allies and civilians

The rainbow wars get religious at Manchester Pride The heckling of an LGB supporter is a worrying sign of things to come

Mary Harrington

UnHerd picks: August’s best Substacks Featuring: Afghanistan, Nike adverts, and Apple

Friday

27.08

Michel Barnier is very popular… in Britain, not France The chances of him being elected President of the Republic are nil

A mysterious spike in Tourette’s leads back to YouTube star Psychiatric disorders can spread via 'social contagion'

More money doesn’t make better schools Even socialists now reject the connection between expenditure and quality

Thursday

26.08

As Kabul burns, we need to talk about Pakistan The country has deep links with groups like the Taliban

NICE has created an ‘unholy mess’ Inside sources tell me why the body's new ME guidelines were delayed

Dissent magazine used to be important. I miss it. The once radical publication has turned conformist

Christopher Sarjeant

‘Bombshell’ study finds natural immunity superior to vaccination If the findings are confirmed, the implications for Covid policy will be profound

The British Brit-bashers are at it again Whatever the problem, some people always find a way to blame Brexit

Wednesday

25.08

Are we witnessing a centre-Left resurgence in Germany? CDU complacency has allowed the SPD to close in on their polling lead

Pat Buchanan was right about Afghanistan The Republican had grave reservations about US wars

Even Nike can’t sell masculinity anymore The company's brand has become lost in identity politics

Meet AppleToo, the latest woke pseudo-union Tech employees are organising — but not in the way you might think

Has the Taliban got access to biometric data? US forces left behind military hardware that may contain dangerous information

Timandra Harkness

Tuesday

24.08

Exploitation is on the road again Truck drivers, cyclists and taxi drivers are suffering from a lack of worker power

Prof. Jay Bhattacharya: I stand by the Great Barrington Declaration The Stanford professor offers his reflections on the pandemic

Social workers risk everything for sharing their views Rachel Mead has been suspended pending investigation on highly dubious grounds

Melanie Newman & Julie Bindel

The Taliban’s meme war The hardline Islamic group is no stranger to online propaganda

Monday

23.08

Germany’s ‘black zero’ fetish hurts the rest of Europe The CDU's obsession with a balanced budget is a scam

Why Facebook hid its ‘Transparency Report’ The company is embarrassed by the most popular shared content on its site

The liberal safari into inceldom has only just begun Meme-making anthropologists massively misunderstand online subcultures

Mary Harrington

David Graeber’s last essay The anarchist intellectual had one final message for the post-pandemic world

Friday

20.08

Joe Biden is stealing Republican thunder Trump campaigned on ending forever wars — Biden actually ended one

OnlyFans is nothing without porn Stopping its creators from making explicit content will be the end of the site

How feminism failed in Afghanistan The US intervention tried to do too much, too soon

What’s left at Current Affairs magazine? Nathan J. Robinson's hypocrisy sums up the emptiness of American Leftism

Al Qaeda may flourish again The fall of Afghanistan presents new opportunities for the terrorist group

Thursday

19.08

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: on refugees we must learn from 2015 The discussion about numbers of Afghan refugees is eerily reminiscent of 2015

Theresa May’s ‘Global Britain’ is a mirage The idea will be a fantasy until the Armed Forces are properly funded

Jonathon Kitson

TikTok’s bizarre new craze: reporting the news The app is leading journalism in a strange new direction

Kristina Murkett

The debate on Afghanistan exposed a delusional Parliament MPs seem to think Britain has a real role to play in this crisis — they're wrong

Wednesday

18.08

Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like CNN's international correspondent talks exclusively to UnHerd from Afghanistan

Test Match Special is no longer the sound of summer Beloved old eccentrics are being replaced with bland reporters

What Gordon Brown misses about Covid Colonialism People in Africa don't particularly want to get vaccinated

It’s impossible to stop politicians lying A petition is seeking to ban untruths from the House of Commons — it will fail

Could withdrawal from Afghanistan strengthen American power? Throughout history, great empires have known when to cut their losses

Tuesday

17.08

What’s gone wrong with London architecture? The capital has never looked worse than it does today

Don’t let your beliefs become your identity A clumsy statement by Yanis Varoufakis reveals the dangers of tribalism

How high fertility rates drove Afghanistan’s tragedy State stability can depend on how many young men are in a population

Joe Biden on Afghanistan, in his own words The President has been in favour of withdrawal for years

Monday

16.08

Stop pretending that university equals opportunity The debate about student numbers is stuck in a bygone era

‘Nature’ magazine has lost its way The journal's embrace of social justice activism is shredding its reputation

Rory Stewart: we need to take ‘many many millions’ of Afghan refugees The former Tory MP has been taking the debate in a new direction

Italy has become an ECB dependency Brussels is effectively in control of Draghi's government

Friday

13.08

David Shor: College liberals have hijacked the Democratic party Freddie Sayers spoke to the political strategist about the failings of the Left

The BBC erases homosexuality with the stroke of a pen Updated guidelines on gender and sex deny the reality of biological sex

Why the Berlin Wall lives on in German minds Sixty years on, politicians have made East-West divisions worse

Thursday

12.08

What the ‘Save the Parish’ campaign doesn’t understand Justin Welby's plans are better than critics claim

The Greens choose trans over trees The party's relentless focus on identity issues will come at an electoral cost

The mysterious Covid productivity bonus Interrupting access to cheap labour may have a positive outcome

Did mental health improve during the pandemic? A new study finds an unprecedented decline in depression at the start of 2020

Wednesday

11.08

Joe Biden’s anti-crypto bill is reckless and unnecessary Its vague language and impossible standards could kill a growing industry

The University of Essex abandons its faculty to ideologues The institution has rowed back on its apology to two gender critical academics

Do racist Euros tweets tell us anything about the UK? The information provided by Twitter is meaningless

In defence of lockdown grade inflation Teachers can't be expected to predict which pupils underperform their potential

The most vaccine-hesitant group of all? PhDs A new study found that the most educated are the least likely to get jabbed

Tuesday

10.08

William Hague is wrong: decriminalising drugs isn’t the ‘only’ way There are problems with Portugal's drug approach too

Proof: The progressive revolution arrived before Trump The proliferation of prejudice words in the media began years earlier

The crypto elite is entering panic mode Fearing incoming regulation, the movement is struggling to respond

Why did Larry Elder call me for advice? My friend is running for Governor of California — and he has a chance

Monday

09.08

Why you’re right to worry about Apple’s new surveillance Our exchanges should not be subject to routine scrutiny, even by machines

Timandra Harkness

No, Orbán is not the Chávez of the Right There’s nothing equal about the odiousness of their respective regimes