Labour’s problems all start at university Students cutting their ties from their home town is more of a problem for Labour than they realise

What’s the matter with Bolsover? History shows that when elites don't share the same faith as the ruled, they end up losing

Saturday

14.12

Robin Ince’s conversion to curiosity The shift from an anti-religious stance goes deeper than just branding

Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday

13.12

WATCH: five interesting moments from election night Labour's civil war has been thrown into full display

Boris Johnson’s biggest weakness became his strength The shape-shifting character of the Prime Minister was a necessary part of his victory...

Thursday

12.12

Outside London, Giles, it really isn’t that bad It's harder to have a political argument with someone in a small town like mine

Mary Harrington

No, the rain probably won’t affect voter turnout The much-quoted idea that bad weather is good or bad for one party is likely nonsense

Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa He may be 78, but the veteran socialist has a commanding vote share of young people

Wednesday

11.12

Why it takes a village of fathers to raise a child The New York Times is wrong again about family structure and race

What we really learned from the YouGov MRP result Whichever way the result goes, the Tories haven't convinced yet

How we ruined election campaigns This is a high stakes campaign — so why is it all so boring?

Tuesday

10.12

Confessions of a conflicted voter I want to vote for a radical Left Brexit party, but there isn't one on the ballot

Has the FT turned red? For the first time in three elections, the pink paper is not endorsing the Tories

South Korean women go on strike — and who can blame them? The new 'Four Nos' Movement says ‘No’ to dating, sex, marriage and child-rearing

Mary Harrington

Monday

09.12

Are the Tories now the Social Democrats? The centre-Left in the UK has taken on a very different form

Why chess embodies the Christmas spirit My Confession with grandmaster Jonathan Rowson got at what Advent should really be about

Stop comparing Boris to Trump The Prime Minister has always had a liberal streak — unlike his American counterpart

Saturday

07.12

Competing visions for our brave, new intangible world Two articles point to some of the thorniest issues we face in the networked age

Mary Harrington

Friday

06.12

Labour plans to squeeze out religious education The manifesto pledge to reconsider RE classes is part of a grander plan

Finally! The Swedish ‘moderates’ agree to work with the populists The only way for populist movements to mature is to let them in

Thursday

05.12

The Lib Dems should have got my vote, but they won’t It’s the Alien v Predator v Terminator election – whoever wins, we lose

Who is the world’s most typical person? The answer might be very different in 100 years' time

Wednesday

04.12

What’s behind Hexham’s happiness? In Northumbria, wealth doesn't equal contentment

To boldly go? You first, Mr Bezos The Amazon founder should focus on problems back down on Earth

Tuesday

03.12

Communism creeps into America America's illiberal mood bears a worrying resemblance to another era

Conservatives can be politically correct too The Right favours groups they would prefer to talk about kindly rather than coarsely

Mary Harrington

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