Whitty and Vallance are playing a dangerous game The dubious use of statistics by the CMO and CSO will only undermine trust

Sir Graham Brady: I can’t vote for another lockdown The leading Tory backbencher tells UnHerd that the mood has changed decisively in the party

Monday

21.09

Is this the question that will win it for Joe Biden? One of his worst attributes may turn out to be his best

Don’t treat children like consumer goods 'Commissioning' babies is a worrying trend that must be resisted in the UK

Mary Harrington

The unspoken truth about our permissive society The arc of history does not bend towards ever-increasing social liberalism

Friday

18.09

Anti-racism is a virtue gone mad Princeton University might lose millions of dollars as a result

Boeing’s deadly sin Greed is not just a corporate failure, but a moral one too

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

17.09

If your child has the sniffles, is it Covid or a cold? The symptoms for each virus are almost indistinguishable

Don’t recycle plastic. Burn it. There's nothing to gain from dumping plastic rubbish halfway across the world

Does international law even exist? It is made by and for states, which are invariably motivated by national interest

Wednesday

16.09

Why are we racialising Beethoven? As a person of colour, I don't feel 'excluded' when I listen to the 5th Symphony

Why fusionism failed The relationship between conservatism and capitalism was doomed from the start

Tuesday

15.09

Even tribal Tories are baffled by the Rule of Six The PM can’t see the value of anything that doesn’t contribute to the exchequer

Mary Harrington

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain They still don't understand the extent and nature of their privilege

Monday

14.09

Don’t fall for the Venus life trap Is there really evidence of life on the planet?

The evidence for the ‘Rule of 6’ is not promising There is nothing to suggest that it limits the spread of Covid-19

Less likely than being struck by lightning? Think I’ll stay indoors The risk of dying from Covid is tiny, but people can't help being frightened anyway

Friday

11.09

Full employment is making a timely comeback Gordon Brown is reviving a core Labour idea, neglected since the 1980s

The paranoid style in vaccine science The Oxford trial was halted, but that does not mean that the vaccine is unsafe

Thursday

10.09

Merlin Sheldrake: the philosophy of fungi Freddie Sayers speaks to the biologist about the mysterious world of mushrooms

Why is the Manchester bomber’s praying not relevant? Religious sensitivities should not stigmatise reporting irregular behaviour

Wednesday

09.09

Don’t call the new Brexit bill ‘illegal’. It isn’t. It may be bad policy, but Brandon Lewis is not signing a criminal’s charter

Polly Mackenzie

Is Donald Trump toast? The pollsters Nate Silver, Doug Rivers and Robert Cahaly have radically different ideas about the coming election

Yes, women are suffering during Covid-19 — but it’s men who are dying… The UN Secretary-General is the latest to bring identity politics to the pandemic

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

08.09

Why aren’t my fellow socialists backing Boris on state aid? The PM is right to resist the 1990s-era rules of the EU

Why I’m no longer talking to white liberals about race They live in a different reality from my own

Monday

07.09

Britain should embrace Canadian-style patriotism The Great White North has become a shining example of a diverse democracy

On euthanasia, old Conservatives are the new radicals Burkean Tories are now the exception, not the rule

Mary Harrington

Friday

04.09

The UBI debate exposes an ancient Christian division A clash between the Weberian Protestant work ethic and Anglo-Catholic nostalgia

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state It's not just the authorities that are getting the latest gadgets

Thursday

03.09

Tyler Cowen on herd mentality and herd immunity Freddie Sayers speaks to the influential US thinker about Covid-19, the media and Trump

Spare me the outrage of the sex trade apologists Don't blame Bella Thorne for succeeding in an industry that we enable

Sharia law is a threat to women everywhere As the case of Afsana Lachaux's shows, its reach extends far beyond the Middle East

Wednesday

02.09

I used to be a ‘Right-wing comic’ — here’s what the BBC doesn’t get Conservative comedians exist in abundance, but only a few talk about politics

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic? Evidence shows that silence reduces the spread of Covid-19... so which countries are the loudest?

Tuesday

01.09

America’s culture war is turning into a petty squabble And invariably, the English-speaking world gets sucked into it

Mary Harrington

Johan Giesecke gets new role at WHO The Swedish epidemiologist has been handed a more senior position

Monday

31.08

There’s more to foreign news than US politics Something the UK media seems to forget...

Friday

28.08

Prof Michael Levitt: here’s what I got wrong The Nobel Prize winner returns to LockdownTV to discuss his predictions

US riots are eerily reminiscent of the Troubles Once again, a liberal democracy descends into bitter civil conflict

Thursday

27.08

A lesson in statistics… for the FDA Even numerate people make mistakes — and mislead without meaning to

Don’t educate litter louts, shame them! People should fear the consequences of disrespectful behaviour

The quiet heroism of refusing to raise a fist Standing up to the mob is never easy, and we should commend those who do it

Wednesday

26.08

Sorry AOC, there’s more to feminism than lipstick Let's not overstretch the meaning of a skincare routine...

Outside religion, who’s talking about forgiveness? The case of Janna Ezat reminds us of its power

Elizabeth Oldfield

Britain: A tale of two retail giants This country must look to its Ocado future — and leave behind it's M&S past

Tuesday

25.08

Yet another feminist burned at the stake Sasha White's crime? Transphobia, of course

In defence of the garden fence The things we value most flourish behind borders

Monday

24.08

A major Covid milestone that you won’t find on the BBC On 19th August there were zero reported Covid deaths — why is this not front page news?

Don’t cancel Rule Britannia… Tweak it Change a few lyrics, but don't let the cultural mavens remove patriotism altogether

Mary Harrington

Friday

21.08

Why the ‘BAME’ term has outlived its purpose Some of the sharpest social tensions are between ethnic and religious minorities

Sailing into a low-tech future A vision of a slower, more considered post-Covid world

Thursday

20.08

Why is Netflix sexing up ‘Cuties’? It is a symptom of a much wider problem in our culture

Let the 2020 meme wars commence The President has joined TikTok rival Triller, but to what end?

Wednesday

19.08

Jeremy Farrar is right: axing Public Health England is foolish When the director of the Wellcome Trust speaks out, people should listen

Finally! A religious story that is not about escape 'Inside the Bruderhof' inverts a clichéd liberal trope about breaking free

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

18.08

Trump the modern-day Nero? That’s rather unfair… to Nero The emperor was a showman but he didn't 'fiddle while Rome burned'

On pornography, Russell Brand is right The commodification of sex should never be celebrated

Monday

17.08

Un-herding the animals of Animal Farm What do the ducks, hens and geese tell us about Orwell's classic?

Friday

14.08

The real winners of the Israel-UAE deal It might be a historic agreement, but it's worth noting who truly benefits

James Bloodworth

The suburban joy of keeping chickens Is this a taste of the post-Covid utopia?

Exposing the fake God James Alison writes theology as if his life depended upon it

Thursday

13.08

‘Recession’ doesn’t begin to cover it The word downplays the magnitude of our current crisis

The Nordic streak in Britain’s character Our cultural links across the North Sea are deeper than we think

George Trefgarne

Wednesday

12.08

The spiritual transgression of facial recognition technology The face is too precious to be treated like a unit of data

Elizabeth Oldfield

Putin’s dangerous vaccine gamble Even if it pays off, the President has set a worrying precedent for medical ethics

Francois Balloux

Silly season comes to the Blue Tick brigade Our liberal celebs have outdone themselves this year...

Tuesday

11.08

What’s behind the longer hemline? Women's clothing is getting more modest — a trend that is likely to continue

Emma Watson, accidental Thatcherite Not all women can empower themselves to be Prime Minister...

Monday

10.08

Why is the BBC airing a Castro hagiography in 2020? Too many of us in liberal democracies want a romantic story to believe in

James Bloodworth

Are British workers skiving-off? Londoners are slower than the rest of Europe in returning to the office

Friday

07.08

Jupiter in Lebanon Macron has to engage with the country before it descends into civil war again

Will there be a second wave of coronavirus? Even in the worst-hit areas in the UK, the actual numbers are still fairly small

Thursday

06.08

‘Rightwashing’ is the wrong approach to viewpoint diversity In our publicly-funded institutions, the Left enjoys a near-monopoly on mediocrity

The Leicester lockdown was not necessary A month after the first "local lockdown", the data suggests it made no difference

The strange case of the disappearing statues A Dublin hotel's pre-emptive removal of its iconic figures has backfired

Wednesday

05.08

Exile: an underused solution Spain's former king has banished himself, with dignity and grace

The fourth plinth must get its just deserts It's time to permanently fill the empty platform with a traditional statue

Tuesday

04.08

Why won’t Right-wingers wear masks? Covid has blown apart the theory that conservatism is a response to pathogens

The coming struggle for space on our streets The Covid crisis has sparked a tarmac turf war

Monday

03.08

Tyler Cowen on ‘family capacity libertarianism’

Indonesia: the world’s most under-reported country When did you last see a news story about the world's largest island country?