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UCL apologises for lecture citing antisemitic blood libel

David Rose

Analysis 2h

Keir Starmer can’t afford to lose Morgan McSweeney

Peter Franklin

Reaction 5h

Breaking Rust’s hit song proves AI has colonised music

Ryan Zickgraf

Debate 7h

Will the BBC axe Verify?

It is already both a product and a victim of a bygone era.

Fred Sculthorp

News 11h

Ethnic-minority Brits twice as likely to tie Englishness to whiteness

Max Mitchell

Wednesday, November 12th Wednesday
Nov 12^th

Analysis 19:15

MAGA is nearing breaking point with Trump

Emily Jashinsky

Dispatch 17:00

Bob Vylan brings the revolution to North London

Cosmo Adair

Explainer 14:00

Britain’s EU defence snub is a sign of national strength

Philip Cunliffe

Debate 11:10

JMW Turner’s ‘autism’ is no guide to his art

Our culture is defined by an increasingly mechanistic view of psychology and character traits.

J.J. Charlesworth

Analysis 07:00

Rising unemployment could send Britain back to the Eighties

Andrew O'Brien

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

Paul Sagar

8 mins

13 Nov

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

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

Nigel Farage: crypto bro He predicts another 'Big Bang'

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov

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

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

Nigel Farage: crypto bro He predicts another 'Big Bang'

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov

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

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov

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

Andrew Hussey

5 mins

12 Nov

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

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

Nigel Farage: crypto bro He predicts another 'Big Bang'

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov

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

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov

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

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov

From the US edition

Wednesday, October 1st Wednesday
Oct 1^st

Reaction 20:00

Democrats are trapped by their own shutdown strategy

Democrats are facing eerie parallels to the Tea Party movement.

Emily Jashinsky

Tuesday, September 30th Tuesday
Sep 30^th

Reaction 18:00

Trump and Hegseth deliver strangest military speeches yet

Tom Rogan

Monday, September 29th Monday
Sep 29^th

Reaction 13:00

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

John Ketcham

Saturday, September 27th Saturday
Sep 27^th

Analysis 16:00

Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to America’s oligarchs

The administration is turning a blind eye to the very dangers it claims to regulate.

Emily Jashinsky

Thursday, September 25th Thursday
Sep 25^th

Explainer 19:00

ICE shooting doesn’t herald a new era of Left-wing violence

Ryan Zickgraf

Only Andrew Cuomo can save New York His flexibility is a virtue, not a vice

Nicole Gelinas

6 mins

4 Nov

American politics

Inside the Democratic identity crisis Party factions offer competing white papers

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

3 Nov

Why women love Tracy Anderson The streaming fitness star sells us our souls

Lily Isaacs

6 mins

1 Nov

It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it

Richard Hanania

9 mins

1 Nov

Watch & listen

The Econoclasts The phoney war between Big Tech & government

Emily Jashinsky Trump’s 50-year mortgage backlash

The Econoclasts The Euro’s fatal flaw

Emily Jashinsky Inside the shutdown deal

Nina Power Alasdair MacIntyre philosophy masterclass

Our writers

Kathleen Stock

Mary Harrington

Aris Roussinos

Wolfgang Munchau

Yanis Varoufakis

Poppy Sowerby

Sohrab Ahmari

Michael Lind

David Rose

Jonny Ball

Helen Thompson

David Patrikarakos

Politics

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29.09 2025

Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

29.09 2025

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

29.09 2025

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Zarah Sultana is a fickle comrade

Jonny Ball

6 mins

Prof. Dieter Helm The madness of our climate policy

Tuesday, November 11th Tuesday
Nov 11^th

Reaction 23:00

Can Gavin Newsom bring young men back to the Democrats?

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 16:00

Epping migrant hotel ruling undermines Labour’s asylum plans

Henry Hill

Reaction 13:00

Is Sahra Wagenknecht’s resignation the end of Left-conservatism?

Katja Hoyer

Explainer 10:30

Rule-or-ruin Left and Right are to blame for shutdowns

The main effect has been to spread chaos in government and misery among millions of Americans.

Michael Lind

Analysis 07:00

DEI research soars in UK grant funding

Eric Kaufmann

Monday, November 10th Monday
Nov 10^th

Debate 19:30

IOC trans ban is a reckoning for women’s sport

Lisa Selin Davis

Explainer 18:30

How the KGB tried to recruit me

David Rose

Reaction 16:30

Why Starmer can’t copy Denmark on immigration

The truth is that the UK is light-years behind when it comes to integration.

Rakib Ehsan

News 14:00

Nigel Farage: the BBC is guilty of election interference

Archie Earle

Debate 10:45

British courts shouldn’t have to protect criticism of Islam

Jide Ehizele

Reaction 07:00

Will Tim Davie’s resignation be a fresh start for the BBC?

Julie Bindel

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

Andrew Hussey

5 mins

12 Nov

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

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Nov

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov

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

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

12 Nov

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

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

Palantir’s secret pact & the Euro’s fatal flaw

The Econoclasts

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

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 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

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

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

12 Nov

Sunday, November 9th Sunday
Nov 9^th

Explainer 17:00

Switzerland’s population cap plan could influence Europe

Under the country’s system of direct democracy, politicians react more quickly to popular demands.

Lukas Leuzinger

Reaction 13:00

Has Britain given up on its heritage sites?

Nicholas Boys Smith

News 08:00

Poll: majority of British voters want both Starmer and Reeves to resign

Rob Lownie

Saturday, November 8th Saturday
Nov 8^th

Reaction 18:00

‘Empire with David Olusoga’ is stuck in 2020

Ralph Leonard

Analysis 16:00

Big Tech’s AI layoffs are killing DEI

Oliver Bateman

Debate 13:00

Met Police racism report is a capitulation to activists

This is ideological capture and the abandonment of political impartiality in plain sight.

Rory Geoghegan

Reaction 08:00

Labour prepares for civil war over income tax

Peter Franklin

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

Terry Eagleton

5 mins

11 Nov

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov

China vs. the dollar & Europe’s far-Right failure

The Econoclasts

Mayoral election

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

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov

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

David Patrikarakos

7 mins

11 Nov

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

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov

UK

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25.10 2025

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

30.09 2025

NHS support for cousin marriage is a betrayal of women

29.09 2025

Has Starmer given up on winning back Reform voters?

Who killed the East End mobster?

Dominic Adler

5 mins

Shabana Mahmood versus the Labour Party

Rob Lownie

7 mins

Ben Freeman Trump’s War Machine

Friday, November 7th Friday
Nov 7^th

Analysis 20:00

Mark Carney’s budget exposes Canada’s deeper malaise

Michael Cuenco

News 17:50

Alex Karp: we will have fewer rights if America loses AI race

Archie Earle

Analysis 14:30

Germany’s struggling coalition provides opening for AfD

Wolfgang Munchau

Reaction 11:55

What Nvidia’s Jensen Huang won’t say about the AI race

Just like the traditional Cold War races — nuclear, space, computing — this has a feel of do or die.

Gavin Haynes

Debate 10:00

Prevent isn’t ready for the next Axel Rudakubana

Limor Simhony Philpott

News 07:00

Growing number of Brits think trans rights have gone too far

UnHerd Staff

Thursday, November 6th Thursday
Nov 6^th

Reaction 18:00

Democrats can’t fill the Nancy Pelosi void

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 15:30

How Mamdani flipped the black and Hispanic vote

His message resonated in boroughs where the cost-of-living crisis is felt most acutely.

Santiago Vidal Calvo

News 12:00

Twice as many Right-wing extremists as Islamists referred to Prevent

Max Mitchell

News 10:00

Legal disputes roil Your Party over member funds

David Rose

Analysis 07:00

What is Prince Harry hiding in his Remembrance Sunday essay?

Mary Harrington

The faith in our genes Evolution explains worship

Tim DeRoche

15 mins

11 Nov

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

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov

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

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct

Will Marjorie Taylor Greene run in 2028?

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

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

Robin Aitken

4 mins

10 Nov

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

US

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07.11 2025

What Nvidia’s Jensen Huang won’t say about the AI race

28.09 2025

Scott Bessent’s warning is clear: Europe must defend itself

27.09 2025

Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to America’s oligarchs

Why economists get Trumpism wrong

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

How American privacy died

Tiffany Jenkins

8 mins

The Econoclasts Europe can’t contain the far-Right

Why we will miss the BBC The world it represents is passing

Mary Harrington

7 mins

11 Nov

Wednesday, November 5th Wednesday
Nov 5^th

Debate 20:00

Trump may lose Supreme Court case but tariffs will endure

Michael Lind

Reaction 16:15

Why are British boys speaking like American rappers?

Rowan Pelling

Explainer 13:00

Suburban revolt should terrify Republicans

GOP candidates were fighting uphill in a political landscape that has turned against them.

Fred Bauer

Analysis 10:00

Britain’s zombie economy is consuming financial services

Andrew O'Brien

Reaction 04:30

MAGA helped elect Zohran Mamdani

Sohrab Ahmari

Tuesday, November 4th Tuesday
Nov 4^th

Analysis 22:20

Dick Cheney created America’s new populist era

Charles McElwee

Reaction 18:45

Labour is still failing to enforce EHRC gender guidance

Joan Smith

Debate 16:30

Was Tommy Robinson a victim of unfair policing?

Officers chose to interpret his activities as encompassing the grey area of potential extremism.

Dominic Adler

News 13:30

Reported sexual assaults fall by 8% across UK

Max Mitchell

Reaction 10:00

Is Reform UK abandoning economic populism?

Peter Franklin

Analysis 07:00

North Sea oil is Labour’s next civil war

Henry Hill

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

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct

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

Michal Kranz

6 mins

28 Oct

Democrats sweep the election

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

China’s new green order It sees climate policy as colonial leverage

Elizabeth Lindley

5 mins

10 Nov

Deindustrialisation

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

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

Europe

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09.11 2025

Switzerland’s population cap plan could influence Europe

15.10 2025

Are Europe and China set for a chip war?

28.09 2025

Europe will regret seizing frozen Russian assets

Giorgia Meloni’s patron saint of nationalism

Andrea Valentino

6 mins

Is Guinness really Irish?

Alexander Poots

6 mins

The Econoclasts China’s real plan for the dollar

Monday, November 3rd Monday
Nov 3^rd

Debate 20:00

Mamdani’s anti-hate crime pledge will fail New Yorkers

Meagan O'Rourke

Explainer 16:15

Hezbollah is far from defeated

Tom Rogan

Debate 13:20

Wellness influencers are relying on junk science

Stella O'Malley

Reaction 10:00

Why Donald Trump is not a white nationalist

His defence of non-white Christians contrasts sharply with the rhetoric levelled at him.

Jide Ehizele

Analysis 07:00

Losing Pokrovsk would be disastrous for Ukraine

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, November 2nd Sunday
Nov 2^nd

Debate 19:30

JD Vance exposes the moral tension of interfaith marriages

Ralph Leonard

Reaction 16:15

Should the Cambridgeshire train stabbings be classed as terrorism?

Joan Smith

Debate 13:00

Captured education research is failing US schools

Neetu Arnold

Explainer 08:00

The lost charm of Britain’s seaside towns

Niall Gooch

How Bardella would break the EU He won’t soften like Meloni

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

10 Nov

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

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

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

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

Fraser Nelson Is there a migrant crimewave?

The rise of the multipolar world order

These Times

Knausgaard can’t escape his own story Myths are more powerful than monologues

Sam Jennings

5 mins

7 Nov

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

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

Culture

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18.09 2025

Jimmy Kimmel suspension confirms comedy belongs to the Right

13.09 2025

National Gallery’s modern art push is a disaster for the Tate

02.09 2025

Chris Columbus doesn’t understand why he disagrees with JK Rowling

Bugonia captures American paranoia

Frederick Kaufman

5 mins

Should we re-moralise art?

Mary Harrington

7 mins

Graham Tomlin & James Orr Pascal vs Descartes: Where did the Enlightenment go wrong?

Statues

Why Britain should be more Soviet Despotic art can be beautiful

Joel Day

8 mins

9 Nov

Saturday, November 1st Saturday
Nov 1^st

Reaction 16:00

Will Hispanics turn New Jersey red?

Democratic disaffection in North Jersey will determine how MAGA plays out in 2026.

Charles McElwee

Debate 13:00

The Right should celebrate the Online Safety Act’s success

Josephine Bartosch

Debate 08:00

Anti-Farage campaign is a sign of SNP desperation

Iain Macwhirter

Friday, October 31st Friday
Oct 31^st

Online 18:30

ChatGPT is running a social experiment it cannot control

Katherine Dee

Explainer 16:20

Heritage’s Israel pivot shows where conservative power now lies

Oliver Bateman

Analysis 13:00

Skirting Taiwan will not spare Trump and Xi a future crisis

It is the Gordian Knot that haunts US-China relations.

Lyle Goldstein

Reaction 10:55

Andrew is modern Britain’s scapegoat

Mary Harrington

Debate 07:00

Glamour magazine’s trans cover shames women

Victoria Smith

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

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

Head to head The Zohran Mamdani debate

Trump’s Economic Revolution

These Times

The girl who killed ‘Teen Vogue’ Lauren Duca defined the mag — then ditched it

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

7 Nov

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

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

War

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06.11 2025

What is Prince Harry hiding in his Remembrance Sunday essay?

27.09 2025

Israel won’t accept Tony Blair’s Gaza plan

25.09 2025

Annexing the West Bank risks full-scale insurgency

Military drones will upend the world

James Kingston

9 mins

Will Labour learn to love defence?

Paul Mason

7 mins

Emily Jashinsky Kat Abughazaleh’s interview walk-out

Thursday, October 30th Thursday
Oct 30^th

News 18:30

Poll: seven in 10 Palestinians oppose Hamas disarmament

Archie Earle

Reaction 16:00

Nvidia’s rise reveals a dangerously lopsided US economy

John Rapley

Analysis 13:00

NEO domestic robots risk creating a new caste system

Peter Franklin

Reaction 10:30

Dutch centrist fightback is not the end of Geert Wilders

Jack Smith

Factcheck 07:00

Has wind power really saved Britain £104 billion since 2010?

David Rose

Wednesday, October 29th Wednesday
Oct 29^th

Debate 19:00

Why Congress should abolish the citizenship test

There’s no reason to throw up this arbitrary barrier for lawful permanent residents.

Michael Lind

Analysis 17:00

Democrats abandon unions in shutdown brinkmanship

Dustin Guastella

Debate 15:00

Uxbridge killing lays bare Met Police failures

Dominic Adler

News 13:30

How Bill Gates shed his climate alarmism

UnHerd Staff

Online 10:40

Grokipedia is another form of online disinformation

It is utopian to imagine that technology can fix problems with deep institutional roots.

Andrew Orlowski

Analysis 07:00

Can Reform fix Britain’s broken Civil Service?

Richard Johnson

weekend analysis

Nigel Farage’s identity crisis The old ideologies won’t work

Jonny Ball

5 mins

8 Nov

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

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct

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

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct

Live from New York This house fears Mayor Mamdani

The Wars for Ukraine’s Resources

These Times

Save me from John Lewis Britain The centrist dads must not hold sway

Julie Burchill

5 mins

6 Nov

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

Faith

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26.09 2025

Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

23.09 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

22.09 2025

Charlie Kirk funeral fuses Christian mercy with MAGA populism

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Faith is the new Successor Ideology

Tim DeRoche

6 mins

Emily Jashinsky Bill Gates’s stunning climate U-turn

Uncancelled at last Four years on, are we any wiser?

Kate Clanchy

7 mins

8 Nov

Tuesday, October 28th Tuesday
Oct 28^th

Debate 19:15

Can America really afford a Gavin Newsom presidency?

Joel Kotkin

Explainer 16:00

Warm Trump visit won’t shield Japan from tariffs

Philip Patrick

Reaction 13:00

More migrant hotels will radicalise Middle England

Tom Jones

Debate 10:00

Germany’s €377-billion military plan won’t fix the Bundeswehr

Soldiers are much harder to come by than tanks and drones.

Katja Hoyer

Analysis 07:00

Do Britons think Sarah Pochin’s comments were racist?

Eric Kaufmann

Monday, October 27th Monday
Oct 27^th

Reaction 23:00

Democrats should go Left on economics — not on culture

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 17:30

Rachel Reeves is picking private equity over family business

Where your owners are based, and their long-term commitment, really does matter.

Andrew O'Brien

News 15:15

Edinburgh University societies boycott Reform UK club

Rob Lownie

Debate 11:40

Giving kids Wegovy won’t solve child obesity

Kristina Murkett

Reaction 08:15

Surprise election win gives Milei chance to remake Argentina

Nick Burns

Explainer 07:00

Why did it take so long to catch Hadush Kebatu?

Ian Acheson

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct

The Econoclasts How Big Finance corrupted crypto

Crisis: Trump, Zelensky and a moment of truth for Starmer

These Times

How Birmingham became a political football The city is on the defensive

Dan Cave

5 mins

6 Nov

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

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

Society

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29.09 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

28.09 2025

The WHO’s anti-alcohol campaign is a war against joy

25.09 2025

ICE shooting doesn’t herald a new era of Left-wing violence

The battle behind digital IDs

Toby Green

8 mins

How Evil is normalised

Jacob Howland

6 mins

The Econoclasts Should Europe seize Russian assets?

Sunday, October 26th Sunday
Oct 26^th

Debate 17:45

Any US-China trade deal will be a mirage

Both sides have tactical reasons to calm the immediate storm.

Miquel Vila

Weekend profile

Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical His generation inherited insecurity

Sohrab Ahmari

9 mins

8 Nov

The last days of poptimism The new stars are old-school cool

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct

Christian nationalism’s godless heart The West is more important than faith

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct

Debate What now for British Jews?

Germany: “Independence” from America and Rise of the Far Right

These Times

Mamdani heralds the radical American city The educated precariat fuels urban socialism

Joel Kotkin

6 mins

5 Nov

flags

Nationalism has claimed the Valleys South Wales has been abandoned by Labour

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct