How the Knights Templar explain Portuguese politics Historical regions map onto contemporary politics with remarkable accuracy...

Thursday

10.10

Why would anyone buy a negative yield bond?

Tax evading billionaires will put Warren in the White House Well, it's finally happened – America now has a regressive tax system in which the 400 richest families pay a lower effective rate than the poorest 50% of Americans...

You don’t have to be lefty to love Extinction Rebellion Boris Johnson acknowledged that Thatcher was ahead of her time in acknowledging the impact of “greenhouse gases”...

Elizabeth Oldfield

Wednesday

09.10

Not a soul on the streets for Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv It is not illegal to drive here on Yom Kippur. You can if you want, but people don’t...

Why #WeHeartGermany Survey after survey shows that British people feel very warmly towards Germans...

RIBA makes the right decision, for a change The judges made the right decision in last night’s Stirling Prize...

Nicholas Boys Smith

Tuesday

08.10

Are socialists liberal? A response to Maajid Nawaz I'd argue that most of the contemporary Left, including the self-declared socialist component, is liberal though-and-through...

When will the Left get over WW2? No sooner had news filtered through that Pizza Express was in trouble when, inevitably, some people suggested nationalising it...

When war becomes like mowing the lawn 'Just war' theory had much to say about when it was morally acceptable to start a war, and very little about how to end them...

Monday

07.10

Why does everyone hate inheritance tax? The case for inheritance tax is a supremely rational one – but that's precisely the problem...

Is Joker meant to be Donald Trump? I worry that in the political furore around Joker, the violent backstory of the iconic Batman character, people might be missing the obvious...

Why won’t the Islamic Republics criticise China? Both Iran and Pakistan are shamefully silenced by China's economic muscle...

Saturday

05.10

Weekend Long Read: The Myth of Boundless Growth This weekend's long read looks at the implications for our world economy of a future seeking either to prioritise growth or decarbonisation.

Mary Harrington

Friday

04.10

Satire isn’t as powerful as you think

Urban Guy versus Flyover Man

Fake blood won’t do it: the climate change movement needs to lead by example A protest to spray the Treasury with fake blood left the organisers red faced...

Thursday

03.10

Marina Hyde’s selective feminism Am I being po-faced, or is Marina Hyde's latest riff on the Conservative Party conference downright misogynistic?

Tory MP: kleptocrat “bling” oligarchs should be unwelcome in London Tory MP John Penrose made a splash at the party's conference by criticising the capitalist system in such strong terms that members in the audience complained that he sounds like a Labour MP...

Why do some people find more purpose in life than others? A YouGov survey commissioned for a report by the libertarian Cato Institute reveals significant existential inequalities between Americans...

Wednesday

02.10

My technology lesson for Boris Let's take a closer look at some of those science projects the prime minister mentioned in his speech...

Chinese Christians face real danger Officially, there are over 40 million Christians in China. Unofficially, the figure is probably closer to 100 million and growing...

‘Stop funding hate’ is a dangerous campaign Sometimes the campaigns that appear the most unthreatening and innocuous turn out to present the greatest danger...

Tuesday

01.10

Why #MeToo is a Christian movement

Watch: UnHerd goes to Tory Conference Freddie Sayers asks David Goodhart, Matthew Goodwin and Madeline Grant whether the Tory Party are really answering the demands of Brexit voters...

One step forward, one step back in the battle for beauty It looks like the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is being listened to...

Monday

30.09

Get real. Politicians were never morally superior

Who matters more, your family or the wider world? A new paper by Jonathan Haidt shows an intriguing correlation between our moral priorities and our political leanings

The politest man in parliament defends rude words At a fringe event in Manchester, Michael Gove epitomises the contradictions of the Tory Party in 2019

Saturday

28.09

Weekend long read: In defence of being an arsehole On Being An Arsehole: A Defence is this weekend’s long read pick, by Jonny Thakkar in The Point...

Mary Harrington

Friday

27.09

Hissing at dissent, at women’s event Just because women need to be protected from violence, it doesn’t mean we need to be protected from disagreement...

Watch: John McDonnell takes a swipe at Ed Miliband At a Labour Party Conference event, Ed Miliband bent over backwards to be complimentary to the leadership; John McDonnell didn’t exactly return the favour...

How much is a prayer worth? Economists have been trying to put a monetary value on prayer by testing how willing people are to pay for it...

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

26.09

Why “Green Growth” is a have your cake and eat it philosophy I believe Greta is correct when she speaks of “fairy tales of economic growth”...

Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet Amid the continuing tumult of Greta-mania and Greta-phobia, Jeff MacMahon of Forbes has noticed something in Thunberg's words that everyone else has missed...

Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson

Wednesday

25.09

Mark Thompson: the BBC is the answer to Brexit OK, he didn't say exactly that, in his speech last night to the Royal Television Society, but that was the implication of his argument...

Meanwhile in America… President Yang? We should be paying more attention to the race for the Democratic nomination...

Tuesday

24.09

Stephen Kinnock Interview: the Labour Party is in danger I sat down with Stephen Kinnock MP at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, to discuss his prospective Brexit deal and the future of the party...

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution I told you so. The other week on UnHerd, I argued that it is time that the UK had a proper written constitution...

Greta may be right, but the spectacle is wrong It makes me uncomfortable to watch a child in distress...

Monday

23.09

Who gives a **** about England? A Labour fringe event entitled ‘Who gives a(nything) about England?’ this afternoon answered its own question when two of the four panellists didn’t even show up...

Who benefits from slavery reparations?

Mary Harrington

The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals The term ‘evangelical’ has been so distorted by American politics that is meaning is now a million miles away from that of its historical formulation...

Saturday

21.09

‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton You know something has really hit the mainstream when Alain de Botton starts talking about it...

Friday

20.09

Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest Some of our favourite signs from the climate change protest in Westminster...

Don’t miss today’s good news on climate Amid the Climate Strike protests, real progress is being made towards a low carbon economy – not least in Britain, where we got some more good news today...

New book puts John Rawls in the dock The dominance of Rawls' brand of Liberalism has held back philosophy for decades, according to a Harvard professor...

Thursday

19.09

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

A timely defence of “stubborn gladness” Am I allowed to feel joyful? It's an argument I often have with myself. This new book of poems by Christian Wiman helps point to an answer...

Elizabeth Oldfield

You wouldn’t think it, but David Lammy was once a thoughtful MP Lammy’s meltdown over Brexit, his descent into the worst kind of racial politics.

Wednesday

18.09

Tucker Carlson: America’s most important pundit

Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right

Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems

Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…

Tuesday

17.09

What happened to diplomatic etiquette?

Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?

A dangerous moment for democracy

Monday

16.09

Why’s Verhofstadt bigging up empire?

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

Watch: the lone Lib Dem speaking out against revoking Article 50

Saturday

14.09

Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom

Mary Harrington

Friday

13.09

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

Alan Johnson on the dark side of ‘community’

In defence of virtue signalling

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

12.09

Four referendums that were never honoured

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

Wednesday

11.09

Charles Clarke interview: what we got wrong on globalisation

Sorry Diane, you have to put up with Alan Sugar

Tuesday

10.09

Jonathan Franzen’s lesson for the end of the world

The nation’s twitchers are rising up

Where are our unions when we need them most?

Monday

09.09

Extreme? On all issues but one, the Tories have never been softer.

What has the EU ever done for us?

Saturday

07.09

Yale’s real problem is not free speech

Mary Harrington

Friday

06.09

Would you clone your dead cat?

Why we need to remember Martin Weitzman

Harry Potter can be a sacred text

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

05.09

Toryism is not conservatism

The truth about lies

Tom Tugendhat interview: is ‘National Conservatism’ coming to the UK?

Wednesday

04.09

The Tory rebels are the true conservatives