How to turn higher production into higher wages A captive labour force might be good for a company, but not the economy

Monday

02.12

Let’s hear from the Unheard Third A new BBC programme about non voters has some interesting ideas...

What Andrew Sullivan taught me about Michael Oakeshott My latest interviewee has got me excited about an often overlooked British philosopher

Out today: Andrew Sullivan’s confessions Don't miss the British-American columnist's reflections

There’s nothing taboo about the Anglo Saxons The latest controversy over the term 'Anglo-Saxon' ignores their significant history

Saturday

30.11

How can we find meaning in bullshit jobs? Jonah Galeota-Sprung finds an inherent tension in the social role of work

Mary Harrington

Friday

29.11

Look closely, and London is not what it seems

Why haven’t we banned cars yet? They're designing a new car-free town in Arizona - we should follow their lead

Is it immoral to vote for Labour? Corbyn's party has become an incubator for the hatred of Jews

Thursday

28.11

Is Jordan Peterson a gateway to the alt-right? A new study suggests maybe — but it's still better to engage than to demonise

How old is too old in politics? Should there be an age limit for political candidates?

Is America losing the war on misery? More Americans are dying 'deaths of despair' through drug or alcohol abuse

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

27.11

The YouGov map that says it all One powerful image shows how the Tories are heading for a majority

Did the Green Party miss a trick with Brexit? Could a pro-Brexit Greens party have united liberals and small c conservatives?

Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better We end up consuming rubbish, even though there's plenty of good stuff to go round

Tuesday

26.11

Today’s immigration data reveals a divided country The latest polling on UnHerd Britain shows how attitudes to immigration differ, even between neighbouring areas

Monday

25.11

Housing policy — will the Tories never learn? A government that refuses to take action against rentiers and land bankers will not be able to deliver affordable home ownership

Elsa goes all Elizabeth Warren in Frozen 2 Should the snow queen take a 23andMe test?

The Manichaeism of the Left will be its undoing The good-or-evil cult of the Corbyn Left will prevent it winning elections

Podcast: George Monbiot’s Confessions The latest episode of Confessions with Giles Fraser is now live

Saturday

23.11

GPS “crop circles” point to a weird data future This story from MIT Technology Review reveals a new kind of big data crime

Mary Harrington

Friday

22.11

Now the Illiberal Democrats ban Catholics A Lib Dem candidate was deselected on the grounds that he is an orthodox Roman Catholic

Young Tories can’t find a place to live 'Partyism' is spreading into every area of life, but there is a cure

Thursday

21.11

Two cheers for Labour’s housing policy It pains me to say it, but there's a lot to welcome in Corbyn's manifesto

What the fork, Marie Kondo? When luxuries become abundant, the rejection of abundance becomes the new luxury.

Wednesday

20.11

UnHerd Britain launches on the Peston Show We were delighted to be "geek of the week" on Peston

Pivot to burnout Marketing experts should put their creative energy into rebranding Sabbath

Elizabeth Oldfield

Who are the Boris-backing C2DEs? The NRS social grade system is useful for economists, but confusing for everyone else

Tuesday

19.11

Leadership debate turns Blind Date The set may have been borrowed from The Weakest Link, but the atmosphere was full Cilla Black

Iran shows the danger of a nationalised internet The shutdown should make supporters of Labour's policy think again

Mary Harrington

Sajid Javid’s land tax doesn’t go far enough The Chancellor must embrace a Churchillian principle

Monday

18.11

Boris will move on economics more easily than culture Beyond Brexit, what sort of domestic agenda would the PM actually implement?

Even a royalist like me struggles with the Windsors The royal family are facing a new annus horribilis

Identity politics has gone mainstream A recent festival showed how identity politics is no longer the preserve of posh students

Saturday

16.11

Autocratic regimes are influencing our universities A new select committee report details the influence of foreign regimes in Academia

Mary Harrington

Friday

15.11

Meet the Groypers: the alt-Right’s newest fringe It is perfectly 2019 that today’s ‘rebels’ are a group of hyper-reactionary boys yearning for a time they never knew

Today’s reaction shows the Corbyn cult at its rawest The Labour Party's response to today's letter in the Guardian is typical of the leadership

Stephen Pollard

Reversing Beeching is just the beginning The economic isolation of large parts of the north and rural areas began in the 1960s, with a misguided sense of the future

Tips from a grandmaster for the game of life A new book on chess illustrates the deep value of concentration - particularly in today's digital world

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

14.11

Deadlocked Democracy The rise of populist, separatist and environmentalist parties is making it harder to form coalition governments

Labour must come to its senses over Freedom of Movement Voters have had enough of their communities being collateral damage in the game of global capitalism

Talk of ‘Empire’ is a Remainer fantasy I have never heard a single Leave supporter mention the empire

Why Michael Bloomberg has my vote Mayor Bloomberg rebuilt and revitalised New York — so why can't he do the same for America?

Wednesday

13.11

Don’t read this if you’re scared of flying Two planes never crash for the same reason. But then, they did.

Boris Johnson’s fish and chips strategy New analysis reveals the favourite restaurant types of different parts of Britain

David Cameron’s fake news about fake news The ex-Prime Minister doesn't know what he's talking about

Tuesday

12.11

Lionel Barber: what the FT got wrong on populism Audio: the retiring editor says his paper has learned from its past mistakes

Leaving ‘Cyberia’: the joy of returning home Is it liberating that I can travel so far yet remain engaged?

Britain should lead the way on farm subsidies Across the EU, 80% of subsidies go to the biggest 20% of claimants

Monday

11.11

Woke capital’s new low: murder is now a ‘mistake’ Uber is so keen to do business with Saudi it's ready to forgive anything

Watch: Nigel Farage backs down Will this prove to be the most consequential moment of the election?

Flyover country goes blue — or does it? The Centre for Towns has produced some truly gobsmacking charts...

Saturday

09.11

Are the Kids Al(t)right? This week’s long read pick is a review of 'Bronze Age Mindset', a bestseller among the 'alt right'...

Mary Harrington

Friday

08.11

As a Left-wing Muslim, I cannot vote for Corbyn’s Labour The party has ruined its reputation for anti-racism

Matt Hancock wants to sequence your baby’s DNA Theres's a potential Pandora’s Box of unintended consequences

Mary Harrington

Thursday

07.11

The five historical dramas Netflix should make next I find historical inaccuracy deeply annoying — it makes me unbearable to watch TV with

Speech: Marco Rubio looks to Pope Leo XIII to fix the broken economy The Florida Senator looks to a 19th-century Papal Encyclical for answers to America's problems

We should defend the right not to wear a poppy There is far too much demand for rigid conformity in thought, word and deed

Wednesday

06.11

Are New Zealand’s new visa laws racist? It seems fair enough to check if a relationship is real before handing out a visa...

Good news! Employers are struggling to fill low-wage jobs Why do self-styled progressives always ignore the positive side of a tighter labour market?

Watch Kate Hoey’s goodbye Kate Hoey used her farewell speech to stress the importance of tradition, and how not all change is good change...

Tuesday

05.11

Justin Welby joins the fight against the new ‘Magisterium’ Free speech on university campuses is still a problem - but it's nothing to do with the Church

The Great Realignment: America got there first The richest people in America have been Democrats for some time

How marrying your cousin corrupts society Loyalty is more likely to be to a large, interconnected network of blood relations

Mary Harrington

Monday

04.11

What really happened to the New Atheists A political movement doesn’t just disappear. All that kinetic force has to go somewhere, to fight someone, and so the “Blue Tribe”, turned to social justice.

The Express has swung behind Boris — and that matters The newspaper that Westminster likes to laugh at is a powerful signal of where Brexit Party voters are headed

Parasols in space? Pet sensors on cars? What Europe really wants… Since mid-2018, the European Commission has collected policy ideas within a citizens' forum. I took a look inside...

Mary Harrington

Saturday

02.11

In defence of the Illiberal Arts Is the current state of exhaustion and nihilism in the arts the logical consequence of our liberal civilisation?

Mary Harrington

Friday

01.11

Should religious leaders tell you who to vote for? Rabbi Jonathan Romain has written to his congregation urging them to vote tactically against Labour. I'm not sure it's right...

Becoming formed as well as informed As another election gets going, it's not just information that matters

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

31.10

The real horror of Halloween Watch out for cars more than ghosts this halloween eve

Spare a thought for the troops whose Christmas just got cancelled The Christmas election is having consequences beyond Westminster

Eleanor Doughty

Workington Man must be one part of a coalition Onward director Will Tanner responds to Freddie Sayers on the 'Belonging in Politics' report...

Obama’s warning on wokeness The former president upsets everybody with an important message

Wednesday

30.10

What about Workington Woman? A new report on 'Workington man' is interesting, but there's no mention of women

The real reason why people hate vegans The hostility that vegans get from their ‘own side’ is especially intriguing...

Tuesday

29.10

Rory Stewart on Love, Brexit and Boris Johnson Rory Stewart talks to Freddie Sayers about love, Brexit and how Boris Johnson made him feel like an abused wife

Democratic attitudes to Israel are shifting Listening from Israel, is was hard not to be aware of the gap that exists between US Democrats and the sorts of conversations being had among politicians over here

Monday

28.10

Trouble in Umbria as Salvini soars Italian regional elections aren't exactly headline news in the UK, but what happened in Umbria this weekend matters.

Will climate sceptics save us from global warming? A new report suggests that climate sceptics have more pro-environmental habits than climate activists

Mary Harrington

‘Never apologise, never explain’ turns out to be right A new study from Columbia University suggests that public figures who apologise are more likely to seen as needing punishment

How capitalism replaced religion Eugene McCarraher's book has been hailed as 'a landmark in American cultural and intellectual history'