Who’d have thought? Decriminalising crime has consequences In San Francisco, out of control shoplifting is driving chains out of the city

After 50 years of talks, Joe Biden still doesn’t get Russia A lot has changed since the President first visited in 1973

Covid-19 rules should not be used to tackle climate change Certain scientists are using pandemic changes to pursue other agendas

Tuesday

15.06

How Karim Benzema became a political football Marine Le Pen is attacking a footballer who snubbed Algeria for France

Why didn’t we shut the border with India sooner? Partly, it seems because Boris didn't want to offend Modi

The biggest threat to the post-Covid economic recovery: the Germans There are signs that Germany wants to return to economic orthodoxy

Monday

14.06

Big Finance will make serfs of us all All that is on offer to the young is a lifetime in rental accommodation

Mary Harrington

7/10 — the score is in for Donald Trump’s post-presidency claims The president claims he was right on key issues — and in most cases we agree

Delaying Liberation Day sets a dangerous precedent What other freedoms will the Government curtail in response to new risks?

Meanwhile in Germany, it’s Bismarck’s turn to be toppled A move to remove the statesman's statue ignores the complexities of his legacy

Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever

Saturday

12.06

Chris Bickerton: Welcome to the Technopopulist future The Cambridge professor has identified a new force in democratic politics

Friday

11.06

Don’t worry about inflation… yet The release of pent-up demand won’t keep the economy going forever

Here’s an idea for the Oxford dons: resign in protest If they are committed to the cause, they should reconsider their positions

Would you pull the legs off a fly? The debate over insect protein as a substitute for meat has taken a surprising turn

Thursday

10.06

Maya Forstater: Legal judgement on trans is a landmark Freddie Sayers spoke to the former researcher about her court victory

Will the real Kamala Harris please stand up? Her about-turn on immigration shows the Vice-President's Machiavellian streak

Sexual harassment in schools is down to one thing: porn Today's Ofsted report confirmed what feminists knew for decades

Abolishing grammar schools created today’s poshocracy The main beneficiaries were private schools

Kristina Murkett

Don’t take university rankings too seriously They're a classic case of Goodhart's law — the metrics are easily gamed

Wednesday

09.06

How deep in debt is British business? It's not just a Covid-induced spike in borrowing to watch out for

Why Emmanuel Macron needed that slap A wee fracas is just what the French President wanted

Farewell then Wisden, my sanctuary from the culture war One of the most venerable names in sport publishing has gone woke

Vaccination status on my Tinder profile? No thanks, gov. The Government is now trying to make vaccination sexy

Members event: has lockdown changed us forever? Join UnHerd for its first in-person event in over a year

Tuesday

08.06

Amy Chua: the Kafkaesque attempt to cancel me The Yale law professor endured a battle over imaginary dinner parties

Who really benefits from the plan to ‘vaccinate the world’s poor’? The proposal diverts more funds back to rich countries

Tony Blair is still wrong on his 50% university target It was politically one of the most damaging decisions under his leadership

The latest nonsense US import: ‘BIPOC’ What exactly is meant by 'indigenous' British people?

Will we accept human-animal hybrids? The reaction to a new Netflix series shows that we may not be ready just yet...

Monday

07.06

Why are politicians comparing the LGB Alliance to the BNP? Comparisons like these will inflame the already raging debate around trans rights

Why Jesus College doesn’t want to talk about Uyghurs An academic has put the spotlight on Cambridge's China connections

Georgia Gilholy

What Mary Beard doesn’t understand about Stoicism There is nothing fascistic about the ancient philosophy

Leonidas Konstantakos & Kai Whiting

Don’t dismiss the booers as bigots BLM has alienated large chunks of the country — and it shows

Liberty Energy opens a new anti-woke front in corporate PR Their online rebuttal to North Face could signal the start of a new trend

Mary Harrington

The ‘old normal’ is alive and well in Venice Returning cruiseliners hint that post-pandemic life will be much the same

Friday

04.06

There’s nothing radical about subversive art anymore The Fourth Plinth shortlist shows a cultural elite at a creative dead end

Former press chief: the media was not racist towards Meghan Ex-director of the Society of Editors Ian Murray speaks out about his resignation

‘Re-opening anxiety’ is a middle class concern The pandemic hit the poor hardest, and their stories should be told first

Mercer’s right: veteran suicides are a stain on this nation Another British soldier took his life last week — but does anyone care?

Thursday

03.06

Bangladesh: the world’s hidden success story It's one of Asia's fastest growing economies, but no one talking about it

Plato would not have approved of “Platonic marriages” Framing sexless marriages as progress is not fooling anyone

Today is a good day for Israeli democracy Bibi's defeat gives liberals much to cheer for

Tories, masters of the culture wars? Don’t make me laugh The Conservatives are clueless, and culturally less powerful than the Left

Wednesday

02.06

Will Steven Pinker lose the bet of the century? There's a lot riding on the psychologist's wager with astronomer Martin Rees

Peter Singer: Despite everything, I’m still a cosmopolitan The moral philosopher discusses whether his progressive worldview has come back to haunt him

Tim Martin’s Remainer enemies are missing the point As always, they confuse British control of borders with closed borders

Second homers are a threat to Welsh culture Locals are being priced out of their home turf

Theo Davies-Lewis

The WHO’s opposition to vaping could cost millions of lives Awarding ministers for banning e-cigarettes is incredibly dangerous

Tuesday

01.06

Delaying freedom day will kill clubs — and help organised crime It would risk gifting a slice of the night economy to the black market

Proof at last: Politicos don’t know what they’re talking about New evidence for what may have seemed obvious for some time

Why ‘Blackout Tuesday’ changed nothing Empty social media theatrics have replaced politics for progressives

Falling birth rates are not just a Chinese problem Economic forces are disincentivising women from having babies everywhere

Mary Harrington

Monday

31.05

Gen Z: Puritanical about everything except drugs Cocaine use among young people is at a 16-year high

Elizabeth Oldfield

The historical myths about Britain that actually need correcting It's not the joys of empire — and hasn't been for generations

Friday

28.05

Parent: Why I pulled my daughter out of antiracist school Freddie Sayers spoke to Andrew Gutmann about his decision

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left? The Right can offer what progressives won’t: letting people be

Stop pretending Peter Tatchell is a perfect man A new Netflix documentary thinks that the campaigner has a spotless past

American universities are not ‘Right-wing’ Ignoring mountains of evidence to the contrary is plainly dishonest

Does leaded petrol cause crime? It was a quirky theory for many years — but now the data is in

Thursday

27.05

The UK Greens are no match for their German cousins One is polling in the single digits, while the other could soon win power

Is Russell Brand a conspiracy theorist? The comedian has lent his support to a major Trumpist talking point

Why is the National Trust so embarrassed by Britain? The group's chairman is leaving — but don't expect anything else to change

Viktor Orbán needs Boris — not the other way round The UK has left the EU, but the Tories remain important players

Alexander Faludy

Wednesday

26.05

Told you so: Charles Darwin next up for cancellation The scientist's reputation is looking under threat

Dominic Cummings’s fantasy: that he invented lockdown The truth is sadly less heroic than he makes out

Study: the culture war that does cut through What may seem like a Twitter brouhaha can have political impact

Tuesday

25.05

Chloe Valdary: ‘wokeism’ is not a religion Unlike Original Sin, the sin of Whiteness has no path to redemption

Another rich sportstar fails to stand up to the Chinese John Cena's apology on Taiwan displays an all too familiar lack of courage

Is it time to sell your Bitcoin? Its crazy ups and downs are scaring prominent investors

A crime wave in the poorest areas shames BLM The movement is hurting the people it was meant to help

Monday

24.05

There is nothing sexist about opposing at-home abortions Politicians should consider the costs of this radical move carefully

Georgia Gilholy

Welcome to post-democracy Politics has become a game for institutional power players, not the voting public

Mary Harrington

Across Europe, the populists are on the march From France to Finland, Right-wingers are surging

Friday

21.05

Jacques Maritain: Joe Biden’s favourite Catholic thinker The President seems unaware of the scarier side of the philosopher's Catholicism

We cannot let the WHO rewrite pandemic history The organisation's about-turn on lockdowns has not gone unnoticed

Masterclass from Belarus: how to survive as a dictator President Alexander Lukashenko has some lessons for other strongmen

Social psychology nearly ruined my favourite film Fight Club's not the same when you know 'subliminal advertising' doesn't work

Thursday

20.05

The border closure debate is turning us into bigots Politicians of all stripes are resorting to ugly tropes about Britain's porous borders

Nicholas Wade: the case for the Covid lab-leak theory Freddie Sayers spoke to the science writer about his investigation into the origins of Covid-19

Revealed: The most important political trend of our time New research shows just how important the education divide is in western politics

Joe Biden is more Ronald Reagan than FDR Both have bumbling, grandfatherly public personas, which they use to full effect