The Econoclasts

The decline of the US empire

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What's happening today beneath the surface

Debate 2h

‘Extremist’ children aren’t Prevent’s biggest problem

Dominic Adler

Wednesday, 19 August Wednesday
19 Aug^th

Explainer 18:30

How the EU is controlling the Ceuta narrative

How the EU is controlling the Ceuta narrative

Brian Chau

Debate 16:00

True-crime fans are hijacking the Lindsay Clancy case

Kristina Murkett

Reaction 10:00

Bill Rasmussen revolutionised the 24/7 news cycle

Bill Rasmussen revolutionised the 24/7 news cycle

B. Duncan Moench

Analysis 07:00

Jason Arday case has damaged Right-wing trust in universities

Eric Kaufmann

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The Jason Arday delusion

The Jason Arday delusion Scapegoating is punitive and crass

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Tobias Jones

10 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

The invasion of the delivery robots

The invasion of the delivery robots

Ed Wiseman

6 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni Turin has become a battlefield

Tobias Jones

10 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

The invasion of the delivery robots

Society

The invasion of the delivery robots Big Tech is coming for our pavements

Ed Wiseman

6 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future

MAGA

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future Expansionist policies have a way of rebounding

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

A storm is coming for Labour

Politics

A storm is coming for Labour The climate gods will decide Andy Burnham’s fate

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni Turin has become a battlefield

Tobias Jones

10 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

The invasion of the delivery robots

The invasion of the delivery robots Big Tech is coming for our pavements

Ed Wiseman

6 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future

MAGA

America’s unstoppable Hispanic future Expansionist policies have a way of rebounding

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

The Japanese crime wave sweeping Britain

The Japanese crime wave sweeping Britain Detective stories reflect society’s doom

Christopher Harding

6 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

From the US edition

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Wednesday, 19 August Wednesday
19 Aug^th

Analysis 12:45

James Fishback’s Florida defeat is a blow to Groyper politics

Nikos Mohammadi

Tuesday, 18 August Tuesday
18 Aug^th

Explainer 12:30

Democrats’ Supreme Court reform is a cynical power grab

Kyle Sammin

Sunday, 16 August Sunday
16 Aug^th

Analysis 19:00

Is Kamala Harris turning into a political liability?

David Masciotra

Friday, 14 August Friday
14 Aug^th

Debate 18:00

University of Michigan coddles students by ditching grades

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There may be legal pressure on universities to accommodate anyone claiming a disability.

John Murawski

Thursday, 13 August Thursday
13 Aug^th

Debate 19:30

Why can’t the WNBA define a woman?

Lisa Selin Davis

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III?

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III? The forever-war logic demands it

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

My health insurer wants cancer to win

My health insurer wants cancer to win It won’t let a drug manufacturer help with my expenses

Joel Looper

7 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

How to Nixonmaxx the right way

How to Nixonmaxx the right way Ditch his thuggery, pick up his realism

Michael Lind

12 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Why ‘responsible’ liberals coddle the irresponsible

Why ‘responsible’ liberals coddle the irresponsible It’s geopolitics all the way down

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

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The Econoclasts The decline of the US empire

The Econoclasts Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

The Econoclasts The US bailout machine is spiralling

Kathleen Stock The scandal of Jason Arday

The Econoclasts China’s hidden economic crisis

Our writers

Kathleen Stock

Mary Harrington

Aris Roussinos

Wolfgang Munchau

Yanis Varoufakis

Poppy Sowerby

Sohrab Ahmari

Michael Lind

Glenn Loury

Jonny Ball

Aaron Bastani

David Rose

Politics

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22.07 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

29.06 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

27.06 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

How Europe conquered Hungary

How Europe conquered Hungary

Thomas Fazi

8 mins

Why Farage will vanquish Lowe

Why Farage will vanquish Lowe

Samuel Rubinstein

7 mins

The Econoclasts Andy Burnham is misjudging Britain’s real crisis

Tuesday, 18 August Tuesday
18 Aug^th

Explainer 18:40

Jon Ossoff is the Democrats’ best anti-Trump weapon

Michael Baharaeen

Debate 16:00

Recognising Britain’s ethnic identities isn’t racist

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England’s very name derives from being the land of the Angles: the land is named after its people.

Ralph Leonard

Analysis 10:00

Andy Burnham should not delay opening up the North Sea

Kathryn Porter

Dispatch 07:00

Jason Arday has become Britain’s George Floyd

Jason Arday has become Britain’s George Floyd

Rob Lownie

Monday, 17 August Monday
17 Aug^th

Online 19:00

Nancy Mace has mastered the art of YouTube cringe

James Billot

News 16:00

Civil Service scraps maths test for finance graduates

Arthur Reynolds

Analysis 13:00

Moscow strikes won’t give Zelensky a military advantage

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Peace talks would seem unlikely in the current, escalatory climate.

Bethany Elliott

Debate 10:00

Jason Arday’s death is no reason to censor the media

Jason Arday’s death is no reason to censor the media

Mary Harrington

Reaction 07:00

Reform’s welfare policy is straight from the uniparty playbook

James Sean Dickson

How Hollywood devoured Hayden Panettiere

How Hollywood devoured Hayden Panettiere Child stars often fall

Mary Harrington

6 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

The sexless lives of millennial feminists

The sexless lives of millennial feminists A dream has been mis-sold

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

My health insurer wants cancer to win It won’t let a drug manufacturer help with my expenses

Joel Looper

7 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III?

Will Mexico be the next front in World War III? The forever-war logic demands it

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

How to Nixonmaxx the right way Ditch his thuggery, pick up his realism

Michael Lind

12 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why we tolerate homelessness Familiarity has bred resignation

Darren McGarvey

5 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

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

Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument

Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument Jason Arday’s death should not be weaponised

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Sunday, 16 August Sunday
16 Aug^th

Reaction 16:00

JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy

JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy

John Rapley

Analysis 13:00

More international students won’t fix UK’s doomed universities

Paul Sagar

Debate 08:00

Robbie Williams is trivialising autism

Stella O'Malley

Saturday, 15 August Saturday
15 Aug^th

Analysis 20:00

USS Abraham Lincoln shows the Navy is badly overstretched

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The Trump administration deserves heavy blame.

Tom Rogan

Explainer 17:00

Emergency phone alerts are the Government’s new authoritarian tool

Timandra Harkness

Reaction 13:00

Germany is sleepwalking into a surveillance state

Germany is sleepwalking into a surveillance state

William Nattrass

Explainer 08:00

The SNP has turned welfare into a political machine

Iain Macwhirter

Hands off the constitution, Andy

Hands off the constitution, Andy Meddling would trigger acrimony

Tim Bale

6 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

War

Welcome to Fortress Iran Mojtaba Khamenei is building a hardened, confrontational state

Arta Moeini

7 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why ‘responsible’ liberals coddle the irresponsible It’s geopolitics all the way down

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Mario Vargas Llosa’s soap-opera life

Mario Vargas Llosa’s soap-opera life His politics and his writing lacked substance

Nick Burns

9 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Why fashion falls for fascists Anna Wintour shouldn’t honour John Galliano

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

UK

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11.06 2026

John Healey exit confirms British defence is in crisis

26.04 2026

Zack Polanski is repeating the fiction of Scottish victimhood

25.10 2025

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

Dunwich is enchanted England

Dunwich is enchanted England

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Sharpe: relic of a lost Britain

Sharpe: relic of a lost Britain

Aris Roussinos

9 mins

Ross Barkan Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Friday, 14 August Friday
14 Aug^th

Analysis 16:00

Kemi Badenoch is the real loser of the Clacton by-election

Peter Franklin

News 13:00

EU asylum seeker applications fall to five-year low

EU asylum seeker applications fall to five-year low

Archie Earle

Analysis 10:00

Andy Burnham’s migrant plan will radicalise Middle England

Adam James Pollock

Reaction 07:15

Nigel Farage has won a hollow victory in Clacton

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Instead of high drama, we have seen a carousel of the weird, the mad and the inane.

Jonny Ball

Thursday, 13 August Thursday
13 Aug^th

News 16:00

Record number of international students apply to UK universities

Archie Earle

Reaction 12:45

Ward Churchill was America’s first woke professor

Ward Churchill was America’s first woke professor

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 10:00

Can Britain’s economy really decentralise?

John Rapley

News 07:00

Tory donations fall to lowest level since 2012

Shea Ferguson

Inside the Albanian revolution

Weekend dispatch

Inside the Albanian revolution The cult of Edi Rama is unravelling

Aris Roussinos

17 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:05am

How France became a big-tech colony Data centres won’t restore sovereignty

Harrison Stetler

6 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Ideas

The Right’s favourite Left radical Christopher Lasch’s romanticism was easy to assimilate

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts The war on populism is backfiring

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Will the Gulfies dump Trump?

Will the Gulfies dump Trump? A power vacuum threatens the Middle East

Reuel Marc Gerecht

6 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

New York’s war on its Jews Mamdani abets the violence

Joel Kotkin

5 mins

7 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

US

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01.07 2026

China is threatening America in the AI race

18.06 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

04.06 2026

Gold rush threatens US financial hegemony

Trump’s tariff addiction

Trump’s tariff addiction

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Holden Caulfield: the original incel

Holden Caulfield: the original incel

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

The Econoclasts The Ukraine turnaround is a media illusion

Eric Hobsbawm’s age of contradictions

Eric Hobsbawm’s age of contradictions His vision of emancipation was flawed

John Merrick

14 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Wednesday, 12 August Wednesday
12 Aug^th

Debate 18:55

AOC highlights the myth behind egg freezing

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It isn’t an insurance policy but instead the end of the road.

Valerie Stivers

Explainer 16:30

Japan’s decline goes deeper than a falling yen

Philip Patrick

Reaction 13:00

Burnham’s vape shop crackdown won’t save the high street

Niall Gooch

Analysis 07:00

Britain won’t be a bond market ‘safe haven’ for long

Britain won’t be a bond market ‘safe haven’ for long

Andrew O'Brien

Tuesday, 11 August Tuesday
11 Aug^th

Debate 18:00

Synagogue security risk stems from progressive antisemitism

David Masciotra

Reaction 16:00

Reform UK’s El Salvador deportation scheme will backfire

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Humiliation and harsh conditions are the point of Bukele’s punitive populism.

David Agren

News 13:15

Cambridge Vice-Chancellor found liable for silencing whistleblower

Cambridge Vice-Chancellor found liable for silencing whistleblower

Rob Lownie

Online 10:00

Myspace’s comeback could counter social media slop

Katherine Dee

Analysis 07:00

Does Andy Burnham have an Islamism problem?

Arthur Reynolds

Meet America’s MAGA exiles Prepare to lose your friends and family

James Billot

7 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

The meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s triumph Organic support for Israel is fading

Ross Barkan

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 3:03pm

Jonathan Haidt Why the Right should support the social media ban

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The Russian Church’s war on Europe

The Russian Church’s war on Europe Putin is armed with missiles and incense

Lucy Ash

8 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

How MAGA became the war party Fighting ‘Third Worldism’ substituted for real populism

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Europe

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14.08 2026

EU asylum seeker applications fall to five-year low

24.07 2026

New Russia sanctions are the EU at its most impotent

15.07 2026

European inaction is driving China’s car industry dominance

Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0

Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0

Lily Lynch

7 mins

Why the Left cancelled air-con

Why the Left cancelled air-con

Tom Ough

5 mins

Norman Finkelstein How Israel lost the Right

Monday, 10 August Monday
10 Aug^th

Debate 18:50

AOC can’t escape ‘Woke One’

AOC can’t escape ‘Woke One’

Michael Baharaeen

Reaction 16:00

Britain is unprepared for Putin’s naval escalation

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The Kremlin has spied an opportunity to provoke Britain.

Bethany Elliott

Explainer 13:00

Police forces are preparing for a showdown with Andy Burnham

Dominic Adler

Analysis 10:00

Netanyahu’s rejection of Gaza peace plan is a bid to save his career

David Swift

Exclusive 07:00

Jason Arday taught me. Here’s what I learnt

Jason Arday taught me. Here’s what I learnt

Fiona Brown

Sunday, 9 August Sunday
9 Aug^th

Debate 16:00

Do blokes still have a place in British politics?

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Being seen as ‘one of the lads’ signalled authenticity to large swathes of the electorate.

Finlay McLaren

Reaction 13:00

Big Tech fines won’t make the internet safer

Kristina Murkett

Debate 08:00

Kemi Badenoch’s foreign social housing ban doesn’t make sense

James Sean Dickson

My climate war burnout

heatwave

My climate war burnout It’s time to decarbonise the discourse

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Burnham should beware dumbing down His vocational scheme is a bad idea

Daisy Christodoulou

8 mins

4 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

How to survive in a Louisiana swamp Cajun culture is vanishing from the bayou

Peter Santenello

12 mins

3 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts The Brexit report is built on fake data

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Politicians deserve our cynicism

Politicians deserve our cynicism Their deceptions are wonderfully transparent

Terry Eagleton

7 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Accusation Culture

A ‘grooming’ crisis at the ICC The Karim Khan affair exposes the farce of international law

Michael Tracey

10 mins

1 Aug 2026 - 12:06am

Culture

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04.08 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

19.07 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

15.02 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

Why you don’t really get Homer

Why you don’t really get Homer

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Argentina: World Cup villains

Argentina: World Cup villains

Nick Burns

5 mins

The Econoclasts Europe’s rigged energy market is killing innovation

We need to talk about Fight Club

We need to talk about Fight Club My book gave lost boys a father figure

Chuck Palahniuk

7 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Saturday, 8 August Saturday
8 Aug^th

Reaction 16:00

Why is RFK Jr trying to be a celebrity chef?

Why is RFK Jr trying to be a celebrity chef?

Richard Crampton-Platt

Analysis 13:00

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

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Leaders are broadening their horizons by solidifying their defence ties closer to home.

Daniel DePetris

Debate 08:00

Is the SNP turning on Nicola Sturgeon?

Peter Franklin

Friday, 7 August Friday
7 Aug^th

Explainer 16:00

Germany’s establishment is trying to ban the AfD — again

Germany’s establishment is trying to ban the AfD — again

William Nattrass

Analysis 13:00

Prevent is not giving an accurate picture of UK terror threat

Steve Gallant

Reaction 10:00

Killjoys are ruining Soho’s pubs

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I blame lockdown, when those namby-pamby bed-wetters the HSPs (Highly Sensitive People) came to the fore.

Julie Burchill

Debate 07:00

Samantha Niblett is promoting a false trans narrative

Joan Smith

We are all Bryan Johnson now His rejection of mortality is going mainstream

Matthew Gasda

6 mins

31 Jul 2026 - 12:13am

The abuse of a black teen’s death Nolan Wells’s drowning is the latest ‘reckoning’

Valerie Stivers

8 mins

30 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Starmer’s fall exposes the West’s leadership crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Marco Rubio’s Havana syndrome

Marco Rubio’s Havana syndrome His childhood shaped his foreign policy

Theo Zenou

7 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Lies Al Gore told me His climate film goaded my generation into a cult

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

29 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

War

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08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

31.07 2026

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons?

13.04 2026

Does Kemi Badenoch understand Britain’s military dysfunction?

Trump can still win the Iran war

Trump can still win the Iran war

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

Israel doesn’t need friends

Israel doesn’t need friends

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

Jake Sullivan Trump has handed Iran victory

Thursday, 6 August Thursday
6 Aug^th

Online 18:00

Tucker Carlson is not a serious political candidate

Tucker Carlson is not a serious political candidate

Oliver Bateman

News 15:20

UK knife homicides fall to 35-year low

Rob Lownie

Analysis 10:00

Burnham’s borrowing plan won’t fix Britain’s economy

Andrew O'Brien

Reaction 07:00

Jason Arday affair masks a deeper university crisis

Jason Arday affair masks a deeper university crisis

Philip Cunliffe

Wednesday, 5 August Wednesday
5 Aug^th

News 16:00

Plurality of Britons think ‘misinformation’ is used to silence people

Archie Earle

Analysis 13:00

The autism spectrum has become too broad

Stella O'Malley

Reaction 10:00

Rod Liddle, my opponent who became a friend

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We disagreed hugely on many issues — Brexit, immigration and Islam — yet agreed on several others.

Rosie Duffield

Explainer 07:00

Marine Le Pen will be the key to Reform UK’s small boats policy

Marine Le Pen will be the key to Reform UK’s small boats policy

Chris Bayliss

The Odyssey as AI allegory

Big Tech

The Odyssey as AI allegory Agamemnon’s heirs are in Silicon Valley

Yanis Varoufakis

8 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

The Left’s war on anti-crime tech Progressive paranoia costs lives

Alicia Nieves

6 mins

28 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Third-Worldism has corrupted America Cuba was the tip of the spear

John Masko

7 mins

27 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Military spending won’t save Europe

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy

Andy Burnham’s grooming gang hypocrisy Will he continue to ignore victims?

Maggie Oliver

5 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

The Democrats’ soul-healer Chris Murphy brings Left conservatism to America

Sohrab Ahmari

7 mins

24 Jul 2026 - 12:47am

Faith

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05.07 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

26.09 2025

Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

23.09 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

John Hooper

7 mins

Former Labour leader: Neil Kinnock

Don’t let grifters kill the university

Higher Education

Don’t let grifters kill the university Academia remains an engine of prosperity

Mary Harrington

6 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

Tuesday, 4 August Tuesday
4 Aug^th

Debate 16:00

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

Spencer A. Klavan

Analysis 13:00

Don’t be fooled by Burnham’s prisoner release reform

Dominic Adler

Reaction 10:00

The DNC is stuck in a death spiral

The DNC is stuck in a death spiral

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 07:00

Rupert Lowe could force a Reform U-turn on the death penalty

Bethany Elliott

Monday, 3 August Monday
3 Aug^rd

Debate 18:30

Has Ariana Grande killed body positivity?

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The border between the body we inherit and the body we choose has never appeared thinner.

Ryan Zickgraf

Reaction 16:00

Sam Altman’s big idea for parents: more ChatGPT

Matthew Gasda

Analysis 12:00

Tucker Carlson’s antiwar movement is Trump’s bad conscience

Tucker Carlson’s antiwar movement is Trump’s bad conscience

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 10:00

Andy Burnham doesn’t need a written constitution

Lee David Evans

Explainer 07:00

Rupert Lowe can save the Right by sacrificing himself

George Spencer

Serfdom, Republican-style Why is the GOP pushing more unfree foreign labor?

Michael Lind

7 mins

23 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

Who’s afraid of the Abdul bros? Centrist Dems use woke tropes against the Left — again

Zaid Jilani

6 mins

22 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Germany’s security council defeat is no surprise

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Has Nigel Farage become a laughing stock?

Has Nigel Farage become a laughing stock? The Clacton by-election is dishonourable

Alwyn Turner

5 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

The poverty of white nationalism Even smarter advocates fail the logic test

Richard Hanania

8 mins

21 Jul 2026 - 4:20am

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

Jason Arday: Cambridge’s DEI darling

Jason Arday: Cambridge’s DEI darling

Kathleen Stock

9 mins

Chinese livestreamers are hypnotising the West

Chinese livestreamers are hypnotising the West

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

The Anglo-Gaullism Debate

Sunday, 2 August Sunday
2 Aug^nd

Debate 19:00

Trump’s paid media service could be his Infantino moment

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Pride comes before the fall.

John Rapley

Reaction 16:00

Norman Finkelstein and Hasan Piker reveal the Left’s double standard on Israel

Norman Finkelstein and Hasan Piker reveal the Left’s double standard on Israel

Ralph Leonard

Analysis 13:00

Friedrich Merz has become Germany’s Keir Starmer

Wolfgang Munchau

Debate 08:00

Labour doesn’t need a female-only leadership race

Victoria Smith

Saturday, 1 August Saturday
1 Aug^st

Reaction 16:00

The MAGA media machine has passed its sell-by date

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Today's winners become tomorrow's establishment.

Oliver Bateman

Explainer 13:00

Reform UK has no plan after Nigel Farage

Reform UK has no plan after Nigel Farage

Peter Franklin

Debate 08:00

Diane Abbott’s return won’t fix Labour divisions

John Oxley

Drought is pushing England to the brink

Drought is pushing England to the brink Yields — and morale — are tumbling

James Rebanks

6 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:03am

How Ferrari lost its sex appeal Sports cars have been enshittified

Ed Wiseman

8 mins

20 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

A novelist’s dark portrait of Natalie Portman Rachel Cusk’s new book mines the actress’s life

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

17 Jul 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts The transhumanist future is closer than you think

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

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

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind

JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind Millennials absorbed Harry Potter's childish morality

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Why true crime isn’t real Alex Murdaugh isn’t a compelling killer

Kat Rosenfield

6 mins

16 Jul 2026 - 12:01am