09:00

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...

Giles Fraser

Monday
07.10

07.10

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

Peter Franklin

07.10

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...

Freddie Sayers

07.10

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

Giles Fraser

Saturday
05.10

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

04.10

Satire isn’t as powerful as you think

Giles Fraser

04.10

Urban Guy versus Flyover Man

Freddie Sayers

04.10

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...

Peter Franklin

Thursday
03.10

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?


03.10

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...

Freddie Sayers

03.10

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...

Peter Franklin

Wednesday
02.10

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...

Tom Chivers

02.10

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...

Giles Fraser

02.10

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

Paul Embery

Tuesday
01.10

01.10

Why #MeToo is a Christian movement

Ed West

01.10

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...

Freddie Sayers

01.10

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

Peter Franklin

Monday
30.09

16:3230.09

Get real. Politicians were never morally superior

Ella Whelan

30.09

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

Giles Fraser

30.09

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

Freddie Sayers

Saturday
28.09

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

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...

Freya Sanders

27.09

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...

Freddie Sayers

27.09

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

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”...

Giles Fraser

26.09

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...

Peter Franklin

26.09

Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson

Freddie Sayers

Wednesday
25.09

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...

Freddie Sayers

25.09

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

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
24.09

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...

Paul Embery

24.09

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...

Peter Franklin

24.09

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

Ed West

Monday
23.09

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...

Freddie Sayers

23.09

Who benefits from slavery reparations?

Mary Harrington

23.09

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...

Giles Fraser

Saturday
21.09

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...

Giles Fraser

Friday
20.09

20.09

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

Freddie Sayers

20.09

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...

Peter Franklin

20.09

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...

Giles Fraser

Thursday
19.09

19.09

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

Freddie Sayers

19.09

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

19.09

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.

Paul Embery

Wednesday
18.09

18.09

Tucker Carlson: America’s most important pundit

Ed West

18.09

Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right

Peter Franklin

18.09

Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems

Freddie Sayers

18.09

Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
17.09

17.09

What happened to diplomatic etiquette?

Ella Whelan

17.09

Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?

Freddie Sayers

17.09

A dangerous moment for democracy

Giles Fraser

Monday
16.09

16.09

Why’s Verhofstadt bigging up empire?

Ed West

16.09

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

Peter Franklin

16.09

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

Freddie Sayers

Saturday
14.09

14.09

Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom

Mary Harrington

Friday
13.09

13.09

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

Peter Franklin

13.09

Alan Johnson on the dark side of ‘community’

Giles Fraser

13.09

In defence of virtue signalling

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday
12.09

12.09

Four referendums that were never honoured

Ed West

12.09

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

Peter Franklin

Wednesday
11.09

11.09

Charles Clarke interview: what we got wrong on globalisation

Freddie Sayers

11.09

Sorry Diane, you have to put up with Alan Sugar

Ella Whelan

Tuesday
10.09

10.09

Jonathan Franzen’s lesson for the end of the world

Giles Fraser

10.09

The nation’s twitchers are rising up

Peter Franklin

10.09

Where are our unions when we need them most?

Paul Embery

Monday
09.09

09.09

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

Ed West

09.09

What has the EU ever done for us?

Giles Fraser

Saturday
07.09

07.09

Yale’s real problem is not free speech

Mary Harrington

Friday
06.09

06.09

Would you clone your dead cat?

Giles Fraser

06.09

Why we need to remember Martin Weitzman

Peter Franklin

06.09

Harry Potter can be a sacred text

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday
05.09

05.09

Toryism is not conservatism

Peter Franklin

05.09

The truth about lies

Giles Fraser

05.09

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

Freddie Sayers

Wednesday
04.09

04.09

The Tory rebels are the true conservatives

Ed West

04.09

Should MPs do what they’re told?

Ella Whelan

04.09

Is this a long-term age of discord?

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
03.09

03.09

Lisa Nandy: Why I don’t regret not supporting the deal

Freddie Sayers

03.09

What Bruce Springsteen tells us about Community

David Goodhart

03.09

William Blake: my kind of madness

Giles Fraser

Monday
02.09

02.09

Will Pakistan open talks with Israel?

Giles Fraser

02.09

East Germany is fertile hunting ground for populists

Peter Franklin

02.09

Vernon Bogdanor: it’s not the Government’s fault

Freddie Sayers

02.09

Welcome to The Post

Freddie Sayers