Rivals

The joy of Jilly Cooper’s naked snobbery Social climbers rarely get a happy ending

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:04am

Online Right

Elon Musk’s British fever dream He puts race ideology before facts

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:02am


Iran war

American hawks are drunk on power Will China sober them up?

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:01am


Online Right

Elon Musk’s British fever dream He puts race ideology before facts

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:02am


Iran war

American hawks are drunk on power Will China sober them up?

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:01am


hinterland

How Churchill’s art saved the West Painting was an escape from politics

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:00am


Manchesterism

Can Andy Burnham save my town? Money alone can’t fix our problems

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

8 mins

21 May 2026 - 12:03am

Online Right

Elon Musk’s British fever dream He puts race ideology before facts

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:02am

Iran war

American hawks are drunk on power Will China sober them up?

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:01am


hinterland

How Churchill’s art saved the West Painting was an escape from politics

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

8 mins

22 May 2026 - 12:00am

Anniversary

Alasdair MacIntyre was right all along His philosophy has new resonance

Ben Cobley

Ben Cobley

8 mins

21 May 2026 - 12:00am


thomas massie

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie But it’s a hollow victory

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 10:13am


Literature

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

Vincenzo Barney

8 mins

20 May 2026 - 8:30am

american media

Algo killed the new-media star Buzzfeed and co. put their trust in Big Tech

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

8 mins

19 May 2026 - 12:00am

female health

How healthmaxxing saved my life Institutional medicine has failed young women

Emily K. Sipiora

Emily K. Sipiora

6 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:00am

WAR

Why Iran is right to be paranoid Outsiders have interfered for centuries

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan

10 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:04am


Outback

Aboriginal violence is Australia’s blind spot A child’s death has revived old tensions

Julie Szego

Julie Szego

7 mins

21 May 2026 - 12:02am

The Right

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie But it’s a hollow victory

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 10:13am

Asia

The end of Japanese pacifism It risks becoming a ‘merchant of death’

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

7 mins

21 May 2026 - 12:01am


Universities

The scandal of two-tier degrees Extra time infantilises students

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

7 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:00am

Exclusive

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

Rob Burley

38 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:02am

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
UnHerd is for people who dare to think for themselves.

Mission Statement
Sovereignty

Why Brexit is back Labour still doesn’t get the revolution

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

19 May 2026 - 12:03am


Literature

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

Vincenzo Barney

8 mins

20 May 2026 - 8:30am

Care sector

How broken children became big business Vulnerable kids are dumped in illegal homes

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

7 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:02am


Journalism

Algo killed the new-media star Buzzfeed and co. put their trust in Big Tech

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

8 mins

19 May 2026 - 12:00am

Silicon Valley

What tech bros learnt from ESPN True fans always want more

Alys Key

Alys Key

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 12:01am

Gen Z

How healthmaxxing saved my life Institutional medicine has failed young women

Emily K. Sipiora

Emily K. Sipiora

6 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:00am

Bond markets

Andy Burnham’s economic fallacy He should stick with Rachel Reeves

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:03am


America

The new epidemic of black youth violence Liberal delusion costs lives

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

7 mins

15 May 2026 - 12:00am

AI

Robo-dogs will ruin your life AI pets are evil

Marilyn Simon

Marilyn Simon

5 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:01am


Critical minerals

Trump is snatching the deep sea’s riches Britain must head for the frontier

Tom Ough

Tom Ough

9 mins

19 May 2026 - 12:02am

Dispatch

Meet London’s boat people They have escaped the rat race

Miles Ellingham

Miles Ellingham

8 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:00am

weekend essay

Labour’s battle of ideas Who can fix Britain’s broken economy?

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

8 mins

16 May 2026 - 12:10am


Books

‘Suicidal empathy’ is fake science Humans are more than animals

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

13 May 2026 - 12:10am

opera

Musical nationalism can save Britten Great opera emerges from political upheaval

Alexander Cohen

Alexander Cohen

4 mins

12 May 2026 - 12:00am


empire

America is crumbling like Safavid Iran The Safavids depended too much on their currency

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

18 May 2026 - 12:01am

Gentrification

How Patrick Bateman remade our cities Welcome to ‘American Psycho’ urbanism

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

6 mins

11 May 2026 - 12:00am

weekend culture

The day the music critic died Pitchfork’s decline is bad for art

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

16 May 2026 - 12:05am


Technology

Was AI called by Cthulhu? Anthropic’s new platform is straight from Lovecraft

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

8 mins

9 May 2026 - 12:00am

The Vatican

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump? Cardinals are no strangers to crusades

John Hooper

John Hooper

7 mins

8 May 2026 - 12:01am


Literacy Crisis

Book clubs are for phoneys Good readers don’t relate to characters

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

15 May 2026 - 12:02am

Pulitzer Prize

The uniparty media’s pro-war twins M. Gessen and Marc Thiessen push the same line

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

5 mins

7 May 2026 - 12:11am

weekend analysis

How (not) to launch a Labour coup Failure haunts the knife-wielders

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

6 mins

16 May 2026 - 12:00am


dispatch

Virginia’s gerrymandering lobster State Republicans are being silenced

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

6 May 2026 - 12:10am

primary election

Why Ohioans still love Trump Middle-class Democrats don’t get it

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

8 mins

5 May 2026 - 12:00am


Monarchy

Why the New Right hates the King Republicanism isn’t just for the Left

Rob Lownie

Rob Lownie

9 mins

15 May 2026 - 12:01am

Turing Test

When Dawkins met Claude Could this AI be conscious?

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

7 mins

2 May 2026 - 12:29am

King in the North

What Burnham can learn from Boris Unite the people, not the party

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

15 May 2026 - 12:04am


Economy

Goodbye, Information Age Welders have a brighter future than grads

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

7 mins

1 May 2026 - 12:00am

Racecraft

The Supreme Court’s vote ruling empowers minorities Now Dems will have to earn their support

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

5 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 9:50am


Dispatch

The battle for Makerfield Josh Simons' former constituency is buried in waste

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

8 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:10am

Political Violence

Attack of the killer centrists Deranged moderates are taking up arms

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 12:57am

Iran

Why plutocrats love Trump’s war The base bleeds; the top feasts

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:02am


Economics

How financialisation broke Britain We bet the house — and lost

Dominik A. Leusder

Dominik A. Leusder

10 mins

28 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Trump assassination attempt

Are we all conspiracy theorists now? The Washington gunman has sparked paranoia

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

26 Apr 2026 - 5:10pm


Labour Coup

Britain’s absurd panic attack The media speculates crises into being

John Maier

John Maier

6 mins

14 May 2026 - 12:01am

Gender

The sexual revolution was always a failure Alice Munro was a case study

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

13 mins

25 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

The Labour Coup

Britain is embarrassing itself America needs a functioning ally

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

13 May 2026 - 12:03am


culture wars

When gender medicine crashed out Secret WPATH videos open a woke time capsule

Benjamin Ryan

Benjamin Ryan

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:34am

Broken Democracy

When America’s rot reached my doorstep It’s a new age of corruption

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Substack

Why everyone’s reading the Worst Boyfriend Ever The Gen Z writer is a post-MeToo monster

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

13 May 2026 - 12:02am

Demography

Japan’s bleak vision of the future Robots won’t solve the fertility crisis

Tom Feiling

Tom Feiling

6 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:05am