Evidence: The Trump impeachment is backfiring on the Democrats Two datapoints will be bringing a smile to Trumpland

Labour must decentralise or die The party has always fallen prey to the top-down, micromanaging Left

Monday

27.01

Ed Balls has been on a journey… in more ways than one A trip to Europe gives the former MP a new political perspective

Office sports chat doesn’t ‘exclude’ anyone It is not, as a BBC interviewee puts it, a gateway drug to more offensive behaviour

The real story from Italy’s election The 'Brothers of Italy' surged, and look like a potential new Salvini partner

Hungary is ahead of the curve on population policy Large parts of the world are facing a demographic crisis

Saturday

25.01

Going vegan will not save the planet The system of resource extraction remains environmentally destructive

Mary Harrington

Friday

24.01

I disagree with the Church about sex, but I’m not leaving Ambivalence about the church you are a member of is not disloyalty, it is maturity

The Joe Rogan endorsement is a big win for Bernie Critics of the YouTube star overlook his anti-establishment appeal

OK Lisa Nandy, I’ll give you my vote The Wigan MP is the least uninspiring of the Labour leadership candidates

Time to introduce virtue into AI ethics Could courage, or love, or patience, be part of ‘ethical data’?

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

23.01

Audio: Giles Fraser meets geneticist Adam Rutherford The author and scientist tackles the difficult topic of race and science

France still sees itself as the Protector of Catholicism The Macron row shows that France takes religion more seriously than Britain

Tyler Cowen is pulling on a dangerous thread The economist's new ideological framework is missing a moral dimension

Wednesday

22.01

Two cheers for the Welsh smacking ban The ruling raises questions about where parental authority should give way to the state

Mary Harrington

China’s coronavirus will not be the next Black Death The swift response shows the world has learned from its past failures

When sensitive language stops helping There comes a point at which arguments over words become a substitute for deeds

Tuesday

21.01

Casting ethnic minority actors in period roles is political It wasn't the best example, but Laurence Fox has a point

Should we send the Lords up north? Moving the House of Lords, while leaving the House of Commons in London, doesn't make much sense

Tony Hall leaves the BBC with an uncertain future The Director-General achieved many things, but his record is not all positive

Monday

20.01

The new ‘Orthodox Conservatives’ are missing a trick A new youth pressure group has set out its core values, but there are some glaring omissions

Mary Harrington

Audio: how bad is Viktor Orban? Phillip Blond and Peter Franklin take opposing views on the virtues of the Hungarian regime

The sixteenth century roots of Gwyneth Paltrow’s candle A new book reveals how our attitude to smell was set relatively recently

Saturday

18.01

How Jesuit missionaries invented spin The cultural legacy of 16th and 17th century missionaries in Brazil and India is still with us today

Mary Harrington

Friday

17.01

In praise of hereditary politicians What if meritocracy is a bad idea and we're better off with hereditary politicians?

Anne Brontë, the forgotten sister who was ahead of her time Anne Brontë, who died 200 years ago today, was more radical than either of her sisters

No, Guy Verhofstadt, citizenship is not a Netflix subscription The latest idea from the EU is part of a wider loss of the importance place

Thursday

16.01

Leavers, not Remainers, deserted Labour in 2019 A spurious claim is being made by some in the party to deflect criticism over the second referendum pledge

The dark side of digital money The end of cash poses a potential threat to personal autonomy

There’s not going to be a Tsar Putin The Russian president's constitutional proposals have been widely misinterpreted

Wednesday

15.01

WATCH: Tributes to the Beast of Bolsover led by Conservatives Tory MP Mark Fletcher paid homage to Dennis Skinner in his maiden speech

Elites don’t preach what they practise Marriage has, paradoxically, become a status-signal and a luxury of the wealthy

WATCH: The most significant moment from last night’s Democrat Debate Billionaire Tom Steyer overtly chose to prioritise the climate over working people

Nudge off: Is the end in sight for behavioural economics? One of the most influential ideas of the 2010s is facing a backlash

Tuesday

14.01

Amazon’s predatory tactics spread to India The company's expansion threatens the livelihood of ordinary people

Mary Harrington

Maybe Lisa Nandy has a chance after all The Wigan MP has a plan to win, and it's not a bad one

The real reason why the high street is dying The future looks bleak for UK retailers

Monday

13.01

Roger Scruton’s quiet heroism The philosopher was a beacon of hope for marginalised conservatives

Why we must take up Roger Scruton’s mantle The philosopher's work belongs to the future

Imogen Sinclair

Is China turning pink? A new pro LGBT advert suggests that a more progressive China is emerging

Sunday

12.01

WATCH: Sir Roger Scruton on the importance of Beauty A programme from 2015 in which philosopher sets out to defend beauty

Saturday

11.01

A road trip into the spirit world A Cain and Abel tale of fraternal tension

Mary Harrington

Friday

10.01

Conservatives, stop kidding yourselves about ‘viewpoint diversity’ It is an underdog argument deployed by the losing side

Mary Harrington

Meghan’s liberalism ignores the importance of family Turbo-charged with celebrity, it holds out the fantasy that you can make it on your own

Is this the decade individualism dies? Older voices are turning away from 'boomer values' in favour of a more co-operative world

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

09.01

Did Twitter anti-diplomacy prevent war with Iran? Among his many skills, Trump is the master practitioner of social media

Why liberals can’t understand English pride The sense of Englishness was heightened among those who voted for Brexit

Polyamory is just a sly way to make cheating seem virtuous I can't imagine anything worse than being told its wrong to mind

Wednesday

08.01

Ursula von der London The EU President focused on the one bit of Britain that Brussels never had to worry about

WATCH: Tory MPs erupt into cheers as Margaret Thatcher is mentioned Will voters in northern ex-mining towns feel as warmly?

Can churches solve Britain’s age segregation problem? They provide one of the few opportunities for different generations to mix

Mary Harrington

Here’s a better idea for reforming Whitehall It's not about re-organising departments, it's about dedicated teams

Tuesday

07.01

Let’s hear it for the Left-wing regressives! All this talk of progress among Labour hopefuls is missing the point

What’s minimalism trying to hide? Minimalist products depend on a maximalist production chain — and that chain is exploitative and wasteful

Let’s re-do the Political Studies Association awards Here are five alternative winners for 2019...

Monday

06.01

Ricky Gervais is a fool — in all the right ways The comedian's stinging criticism of the Hollywood elite takes a stand against 'anti-comedy'

Are human rights overtaking democracy? Lord Sumption raises important questions about the mission creep of human rights

Lisa Nandy on social conservatism and Dominic Cummings The Labour leadership contender spoke to UnHerd about how communities can protect their culture

Saturday

04.01

Studying Classics shouldn’t be an elite pursuit People forget the long tradition of working class study of the Classics

Mary Harrington

Friday

03.01

Watch: Yarom Hazony in a fiery debate on nationalism The academic locks horns with columnist Bret Stephens at Princeton University

Conservatives should capture the Green movement It's time to re-discover the long-lost conservative environmentalist tradition

Thursday

02.01

Green means going local in globalised Vancouver A sign in a pile of potatoes saying 'BC first' taught me a lot...

Can patriotism be progressive? A seemingly innocuous statement has triggered a heated debate on the Left

Wednesday

01.01

Race is a bad way to target a scholarship — black or white Once you start going down the road of dividing people by their race, there's no going back

Will China end America’s culture wars? China is one thing that unites American conservatives and liberals

Tuesday

31.12

The top 5 climbers and fallers in the world of ideas From trade wars to identity politics, the 2010s was an interesting decade...

Mary Harrington

If Labour want help with patriotism, they should read Orwell

Monday

30.12

Greens need to starting talking solutions The Today programme should give a platform to someone like Michael Liebreich

The British answer to the Benedict Option The instinct to turn away from mainstream society is found far beyond American Christians

Friday

27.12

Is it immoral to let children believe in Santa? Make-believe stories exist and are sustained precisely because we believe in them

Thursday

26.12

Are the Christians turning away from Donald Trump? Upsets at two Christian publications have put the President's evangelical support in question

WATCH: 10 Christmas day messages From the Queen to Kevin Spacey, our selection of the interesting and the bizarre

Wednesday

25.12

Three myths about social conservatives Unhelpfully, social and cultural conservatives are often used interchangeably

Tuesday

24.12

Leave your echo chambers this Christmas Many of us have lost the habit of navigating political differences

Mary Harrington

Monday

23.12

The Two Popes is made in liberal Hollywood’s image The film's two main characters are a simplistic representation of two competing worldviews

Saturday

21.12

The dark side of the communitarian idyll What drives people to religious withdrawal in contemporary individualistic America?

Mary Harrington

Friday

20.12

Will Boris fight for middle-aged men? Single middle aged men are the group most likely to commit suicide — and most likely to vote Tory

Thursday

19.12

Does Dominic Cummings get survivorship bias? The advisor's recommended reading to Downing Street aides may be misguided

Don’t nuke the North, Dom Cummings should bury nuclear, not praise it, in his vision for economic renewal

Boris bans the word ‘Brexit’ An edict has gone out in government banning the B word post January 31st

Judges are on a collision course with the Church A legal ruling has exposed a battle between Britain's two value systems

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

18.12

It’s time we ‘progressives’ stopped hectoring The liberal Left's identity politics alienated much of the country