Agriculture

Could Britain survive a food shortage? Labour’s farming policy has imperilled the nation

James Rebanks

James Rebanks

8 mins

18 Nov

New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov


Israel

How the IDF escapes justice Netanyahu is dismantling Israeli law

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

7 mins

18 Nov


New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov


Israel

How the IDF escapes justice Netanyahu is dismantling Israeli law

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

7 mins

18 Nov


Privacy

The High Street’s authoritarian turn Live facial recognition is no solution to crime

Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov


Budget

Rachel Reeves has a confidence problem The bond markets can smell fear

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

17 Nov

New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov

Israel

How the IDF escapes justice Netanyahu is dismantling Israeli law

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

7 mins

18 Nov


Privacy

The High Street’s authoritarian turn Live facial recognition is no solution to crime

Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov

Gentrification

America’s invasion of Mexico Digital nomads are tearing neighbourhoods apart

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

10 mins

17 Nov


Budget

Rachel Reeves has a confidence problem The bond markets can smell fear

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

17 Nov


Gen Z

The empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’ Rama Duwaji’s shallow art is very 2020

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

17 Nov

America

The futility of pensioner protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov

Bias

Why the BBC was never impartial Not all beliefs should be respected

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Nov


Dispatch

Getting a kick out of amateur football Fans dodge sheep invasions and geese droppings

Ross Davies

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov

Dispatch

The San Francisco school sacrificed to equity Progressives are ignoring the poor

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov

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
Weekend Essay

How woke and anti-woke erase blackness We must see race, but not be ruled by it

Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury

8 mins

15 Nov


civil war

Who comes after Starmer? Labour has no good options

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

14 Nov

review

When did Springsteen stop making great albums? ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ holds a clue

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 Nov


Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov

Review

Meet the new gay dissidents The queer alliance is splintering

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

5 mins

14 Nov

Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

Weekend Analysis

Keir Starmer: last of the technocrats The governing caste is losing its grip

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

15 Nov


Mayoral election

Will America elect a socialist president? Mamdani could pave the way for AOC

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov


The Right

How Trump remade conservatism No, he’s not George Bush 2.0

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

Review

John Updike’s carnal Christianity He knew the hymn beneath the hard-on

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov

Weekend Spotlight

The EU’s new censorship machine The Democracy Shield will police speech

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

5 mins

15 Nov


social scene

Why London’s literati can’t write Egalitarianism doesn’t produce great work

Rose Lyddon

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov

Halloween

Do the Irish believe in ghosts? Collective trauma feeds the supernatural

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct


deregulation

Nigel Farage: crypto bro He predicts another ‘Big Bang’

Alys Key

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov

review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

Feminism

What Margaret Atwood got wrong ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ never happened

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

14 Nov


Elections

Has the Dutch far-Right peaked? Geert Wilders faces a reckoning

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct

Peace Talks

Trump still can’t resist Putin Russia’s oil wealth beckons

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

6 mins

28 Oct


neutrality

Inside the BBC’s HR problem Young ideologues can’t tolerate wrongthink

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Nov

Deindustrialisation

Pittsburgh vs Cleveland: a tale of two Rust Belt cities One thrives while the other despairs

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

Assisted Dying

I changed my mind about killing myself But support the right to choose

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

8 mins

14 Nov


Culture

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

Plutocracy

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct


new right

Is Reform going too Christian? James Orr is Farage’s religious Svengali

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

12 Nov

review

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters Cinema doesn’t need to be serious

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

Interview

The prophet of gender madness Dr. Paul McHugh returns from the cold 

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

7 mins

13 Nov


populism

Meet Japan’s Iron Lady Sanae Takaichi is polarising the nation

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct

Television

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct


Monarchy

Andrew: the half-buffoon prince Andrew should have studied Shakespeare

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

5 mins

11 Nov

Patriotism

The Battle of Hastings isn’t over Brits still ache for Anglo-Saxon England

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

10 Years On

The Bataclan massacre still stalks France Sectarian rage won’t be soothed by more memorials

Andrew Hussey

Andrew Hussey

5 mins

12 Nov


75 years on

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct

Dispatch

What are Britain’s biohackers so afraid of? They crave control in a disordered world

Fin Carter

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct


Middle East

Does Syria have a future? The Kurds still mistrust al-Sharaa

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

7 mins

11 Nov

dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

Politics

Where the Labour Right went wrong Blair’s heirs represent a broken status quo

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

12 Nov


belief system

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct

premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct


impartiality

Can the BBC be saved? The next DG risks being the last

Robin Aitken

Robin Aitken

4 mins

10 Nov

Protests

Trump wants a war with blue cities And Chicago might give him one

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct