The Econoclasts

The phoney war between Big Tech & government

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Assisted Dying

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

Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar

8 mins

13 Nov

The Right

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

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov


deregulation

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

Alys Key

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov


The Right

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

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov


deregulation

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

Alys Key

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov


Dispatch

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

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov


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

The Right

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

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

7 mins

13 Nov

deregulation

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

Alys Key

Alys Key

8 mins

13 Nov


Dispatch

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

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov

Dispatch

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

Ross Davies

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov


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


neutrality

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

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

12 Nov

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov

new right

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

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

12 Nov


Africa

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

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov

review

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

Matt Feeney

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.

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Politics

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

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

12 Nov


Monarchy

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

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

5 mins

11 Nov

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov


Mayoral election

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

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov

Middle East

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

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

7 mins

11 Nov

Review

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

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov

Religion

The faith in our genes Evolution explains worship

Tim DeRoche

Tim DeRoche

15 mins

11 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


impartiality

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

Robin Aitken

Robin Aitken

4 mins

10 Nov

review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

fake news

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

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

11 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


COP30

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

Elizabeth Lindley

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

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

National Rally

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

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

10 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


review

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

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

5 mins

7 Nov

review

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

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct

Statues

Why Britain should be more Soviet Despotic art can be beautiful

Joel Day

Joel Day

8 mins

9 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


Interview

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

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

7 Nov

Patriotism

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

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct

weekend analysis

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

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

5 mins

8 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


advert

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

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

6 Nov

dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct

weekend essay

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

Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy

7 mins

8 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


Dispatch

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

Dan Cave

Dan Cave

5 mins

6 Nov

Protests

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

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct

Weekend profile

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

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

9 mins

8 Nov


monoculture

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

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct

Religion

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

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct


Election

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

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

6 mins

5 Nov

flags

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

Brad Evans

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct