Farming is too important for Britain to be ‘like Singapore’ An economist's leaked remarks reveal a lack of understanding into the industry's social value

Mary Harrington

Monday

02.03

Proportional representation has trapped Israel in a ghost story For a brief moment during Brexit I thought PR was the way to go. I should have known better.

Mary Beard is the exception that proves the rule The furore over the classicist's blocked appointment to the British Museum reveals the Left's cultural domination

Saturday

29.02

Trouble in Paradise: The dark underbelly of the Maldives This holiday fantasyland disguises a great deal of internal strife

Mary Harrington

Friday

28.02

Pubs, not cafes, are the home of public conversation Unlike coffee, alcohol creates a space in which people can freely engage with each other

WATCH: Freddie Sayers on Sky News’ All out Politics Our executive editor features alongside Julia Hobsbawm in this morning's show

Tory British Indians are not driven by racism A lazy Guardian article implies as much

Does the BBC know astrology isn’t real? A bizarre segment on 'Mercury in retrograde' lacked any mention of the underlying science

The zero-carbon future might save our communities If we want to maintain relationships, we will have to move less

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

27.02

The end of the world for climate change hypocrites The Heathrow judgement marks the end of denial about the hard choices ahead

Helicopter money finally lands in Hong Kong The government's decision to give each of its citizens HK$10,000 is the clearest example to date - will the UK be next?

Church-going is the first step on the road to faith Madeline Grant's beguiling Telegraph piece omitted one possible outcome

The New York Times casts doubt on Harvey Weinstein conviction Reporters highlight unusual elements in the legal case brought against the mogul

Trevor Philips: Freedom of Speech is about protecting minorities At last night's Freedom of Speech Union launch, the campaigner said that the cause should not be considered Right-wing

Wednesday

26.02

Memo to Boris: Buses will only get you so far Boris Johnson's new seats in the North didn't vote to become commuter zones for a few urban centres

Is Red Toryism a gateway to the far Left? A discussion in the House of Commons exposes a divide in the party

Tuesday

25.02

No Mr Mount, Boris Johnson is not Mussolini An extraordinary LRB essay makes the comparison

Nearly three-quarters of Brits find meaning in their jobs A YouGov chart points to a crisis of meaning at work — but is that a glass quarter-empty take?

The Left and Right outrage machines are stuck in the past Today's identity politics stems from 18th and early 19th century reaction to the Enlightenment

Gays and lesbians are abandoning the LGBTQIAA+ movement Lesbian vlogger Arielle Scarcella is joining other gay, lesbian and bi people in leaving the group

Mary Harrington

Monday

24.02

The danger of free speech zones Toby Young's Free Speech Union has a noble objective, but risks falling into the hands of the wrong people

UnHerd’s picks from the morning papers Stories about universities sneering at patriotism, the culture wars quagmire and the French far-Right caught our eye this morning

Please, Rory, let us sleep in peace The night is for sleeping — not political campaigning

Saturday

22.02

The post-liberalism of Michel Houellebecq Christopher Caldwell misreads the author's critique of liberalism

Mary Harrington

Friday

21.02

It’s easy to be green when you live in Kensington A map of London's Electric Vehicle charging points shows that the Royal Borough is streets ahead

Can poetry survive in a secular age? When the afterglow of Christian culture has finally faded, the poets will be in trouble

UnHerd’s picks from the morning papers Fraser Nelson, a fishing port in Lancashire, and the liberalism of the art world caught our eye this morning

Where are the cool conservatives? They have a major image problem, says Ed West in his new book

Why do ‘open’ liberals live in closed communities? It's ironic that 'open' cities restrict people from living in them

Thursday

20.02

Criticisms of Priti Patel have sinister undertones The implication of the home secretary's critics is that her loyalty should be to family — and by extension, ethnic group

Stop making new laws on offensive speech New powers designed to protect NHS staff are open to abuse

WATCH: Bloomberg attacked at Democratic debate The candidates all turn on the billionaire... but will it backfire?

Wednesday

19.02

Time for big tech to share data about themselves They know a lot more than we do about screen addiction and mental wellbeing

Jess Phillips: How I became my caricature At an event last night, the MP explained how politicians can turn into the worst version of themselves

Should we give the cabinet an IQ test? Ministers ought to be capable of creative, original thought — but that's rarely tested in public

Tuesday

18.02

Extinction Rebellion is on a dangerous path The XR movement has a lot in common with religious fundamentalists

The medieval trial of Caroline Flack Trying to remove 'bad influences' reflects a pre-modern idea of what it is to be human

Schools don’t teach about the British Empire — and that’s a good thing Secondary-level history is too limited to teach complex subject matters

Monday

17.02

Churches are closing down — I won’t let mine be one of them The bricks of a church are a statement of Christian defiance

LISTEN: Tom Chivers on Andrew Sabisky and eugenics Our columnist features on The Today Programme to discuss Andrew Sabisky

Without God, it’s harder to defend against eugenics With no religious authority, we lack the language to reject moral atrocities like human selection

Mary Harrington

Saturday

15.02

America’s conservatives are turning radical Two prominent writers are calling for a quiet revolution

Mary Harrington

Friday

14.02

Even George Soros is now a China hawk The billionaire's recent comments reveal a wider crack up among the liberal elite

Mr Jones is a lesson in the dangers of groupthink The journalist exposed the horrors of the Stalinist regime — much to the disdain of educated westerners

Thursday

13.02

WATCH: Justin Welby apologises for his ‘white advantage’ The Archbishop of Canterbury also said the Church is 'still deeply institutionally racist'

Please Boris, let HS2 be your last white elephant The PM should check his attraction to 'grands projets'

Here’s to Chaucer Lane and Attlee Avenue! The PM wants to name a train station after Margaret Thatcher — we should commemorate national icons like this more often

Wednesday

12.02

WATCH: New Tory MP Kieran Mullan maiden speech The Crewe MP on the importance of family, place and belonging in today's world

Got to hand it to him, Boris is good on cycling The PM's cycle plans are the sort of thing that small-c conservatives should welcome

Get ready for a brokered convention There was no clear winner in New Hampshire

Tuesday

11.02

Why shouldn’t modern buildings be beautiful? Beauty doesn't always need to serve a structural purpose

Is it time to give up on the ‘nuclear family’? David Brooks asks some difficult questions in his latest column

Dominic Cummings must win the battle of the SpAds A reformed cadre of advisors is an important first step

Monday

10.02

Advice for the BBC’s next director-general Why the BBC and the Church of England have a great deal in common

Corinthian columns won’t fix Milton Keynes Neoclassical architecture isn't a solution in of itself

Mary Harrington

Sunday

09.02

Middle-class patriotism goes underground An Evensong service left me with an emotion I realised I hadn’t felt for some time

Saturday

08.02

The voice of manual work in the world of letters Bud Smith's account of working in an oil refinery shows how both worlds view the other as more authentic

Mary Harrington

Friday

07.02

As long as universities are businesses, forget about free speech The government's opening salvo in the culture wars ignores the bigger problem

Mary Harrington

On campus free speech, the government will have a fight on its hands Encouraging signs from the Education Secretary, but it's only a start

St Hilda’s demolishes its chapel, and the humanists crow A 'multi-faith space' is about as spiritual as a dentist's waiting room

Thursday

06.02

Being wrong isn’t being hateful The shifting definition of hate speech is flawed and dangerous

Geek tip: if it doesn’t say “Registered Report,” don’t trust it A new study shows how effective the academic system to avoid bias really is

What Walter Bagehot would say about the State of the Union The essayist understood the difference between the political and ceremonial

Wednesday

05.02

It’s time for the church to go green Lent is the perfect opportunity for Christians to reclaim environmentalism

Mary Harrington

Boris is right — mercantilists are everywhere Unilaterally adhering to free-market ideology doesn't seem to be working so well for us either

RIP George Steiner, prophet of attention The deceased cultural critic understood that our attention is our highest gift

Elizabeth Oldfield

Tuesday

04.02

My three-year-old should not know about ‘stress’ We have been subject to increasingly shrill claims about a crisis of childhood

Take that, Leavers: some British things might be slightly foreign The Brexit-themed Horrible Histories has re-ignited a stupid debate

And the winner from Iowa is… Donald Trump Only the Republicans benefit from the chaos in Iowa

In (partial) defence of Grace Blakeley The commentator is right to say that alternatives to neoliberalism are being heard

Monday

03.02

WATCH: Boris on the end of the ‘B word’ More classical rhetoric from the prime minister...

The Google Maps hack underlines our powerlessness It is a metaphor for the defeatism of postmodernism

Mary Harrington

Andrew Yang, the ‘think outside the box’ candidate The geeky former tech executive has a unique bipartisan appeal

Saturday

01.02

This piece about the 1990s rave scene takes me back Today's rave revisionism points to a culture in decline

Mary Harrington

Friday

31.01

After Brexit night, what next? Five of the most thought-provoking, from the archives...

For a different image of freedom, read Stalingrad Douglas Murray missed out Vasily Grossman's all important prequel

These days, Peter the Hermit would have a blue tick Medieval-style cults headed by dysfunctional people are rising to power online

Thursday

30.01

Blair Jr campaigns against the university model of Blair Snr Euan Blair has some different ideas from his father

WATCH: Danny Kruger maiden speech The Devizes MP touches on community, culture and Christianity

Coronavirus leaves no room for cultural sensitivity In a globalised world we need to hold our neighbours to higher standards

Wednesday

29.01

Social media broadens our opinions? Sorry, don’t believe it A new report aims to debunk the idea of social media 'filter bubbles'

The House of Lords should become the Future Chamber It's time to turn the 'revising chamber' into the 'long term chamber'