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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
14.09
Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom
Mary Harrington
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
12.09
Four referendums that were never honoured
Ed West
12.09
‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think
Peter Franklin
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
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
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
07.09
Yale’s real problem is not free speech
Mary Harrington
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
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
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
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
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