The Econoclasts

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

What's happening today beneath the surface

Tuesday, December 9th Tuesday
Dec 9^th

Analysis 18:30

Jasmine Crockett run turns Texas into another lost Democratic cause

Michael Baharaeen

Explainer 13:00

$1 trillion trade surplus leaves China dangerously dependent

Miquel Vila

Reaction 10:00

Sandie Peggie ruling is a surrender to trans activists

This terrible judgment takes us back to the days when women were supposed to put men’s feelings first.

Joan Smith

Debate 07:00

School flu lockdowns show Covid-era fear still rules

David Paton

Monday, December 8th Monday
Dec 8^th

Explainer 16:15

When the mob came for Martin Parr

Flo Read

Reaction 13:00

John Swinney is selling Scotland an energy fantasy

Iain Macwhirter

Analysis 10:00

Labour is sleepwalking into a farcical leadership contest

Peter Franklin

Reaction 07:00

Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine

The Kremlin has been consistently unwilling to make any concessions.

Bethany Elliott

View more from the newsroom

The tragedy of Keir Starmer’s Substack It yearns for an illusory world

Mary Harrington

7 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Why the MAGA crowd loves foreign lands Every faction has a pet country

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Multiculturalism

Are Muslims Britain’s future? An assertive new generation puts faith first

Rakib Ehsan

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Qatar

Why the MAGA crowd loves foreign lands Every faction has a pet country

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Multiculturalism

Are Muslims Britain’s future? An assertive new generation puts faith first

Rakib Ehsan

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Kenneth Clark: unlikely socialist He wanted the best for the most

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Tommy Robinson is a cynical Christian Hush the noise, ye man of strife

Giles Fraser

5 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Why the MAGA crowd loves foreign lands Every faction has a pet country

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Multiculturalism

Are Muslims Britain’s future? An assertive new generation puts faith first

Rakib Ehsan

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Kenneth Clark: unlikely socialist He wanted the best for the most

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Is Mamdani’s idealism already fading? Rhetoric is meeting reality

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

From the US edition

Tuesday, December 9th Tuesday
Dec 9^th

Debate 16:00

Jennifer Welch is not the voice Democrats need

Emily Jashinsky

Monday, December 8th Monday
Dec 8^th

Analysis 18:30

President may have the last laugh in Trump v. Slaughter

Kyle Sammin

Sunday, December 7th Sunday
Dec 7^th

Debate 19:00

Can Trump win the affordability debate?

Michael Lind

Saturday, December 6th Saturday
Dec 6^th

Analysis 19:00

Can Josh Shapiro rebuild the Democrats’ coalition?

As Pennsylvania governor, he has insisted on rejecting purity politics and litmus tests.

Michael Baharaeen

Monday, December 1st Monday
Dec 1^st

Reaction 19:45

Did Pete Hegseth really commit a war crime?

We have seen no evidence to suggest that Hegseth actually ordered a second strike against the boat.

Tom Rogan

American culture

Who created our cultural Dark Ages? Blaming the Right is tempting — and wrong

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

fertility crisis

Liberal women have abandoned marriage Right-wing chauvinism doesn’t help

Patrick T. Brown

5 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

The media ruined the Thanksgiving pie The holiday is a time for the classics

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

26 Nov 2025 -

The triumph of the Trump Doctrine Execution is shoddy, but the change is real

Heather Penatzer

12 mins

25 Nov 2025 -

Watch & listen

Kathleen Stock, Ed West & James Marriott The slop-ification of literature

The Econoclasts The sham of European ‘values’

Madeleine Sumption The truth about net immigration

The Econoclasts Trump’s $6 trillion crypto plot

Rod Dreher Inside the MAGA civil war

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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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

Where the Labour Right went wrong

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

Benedict Anderson: humane nationalist

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Rod Dreher The Battle for the Right

Sunday, December 7th Sunday
Dec 7^th

Analysis 16:00

EU market reforms won’t bring back growth

Jack Smith

Explainer 12:00

Paganism is the obvious religion for post-faith Britain

Francis Young

Reaction 08:00

Thames Water is a test for the British economy

We thought that turning our utilities over global capital was the economic equivalent of a free lunch.

Andrew O'Brien

Saturday, December 6th Saturday
Dec 6^th

Reaction 16:00

Netflix’s Warner Bros deal betrays its original purpose

Oliver Bateman

Debate 12:00

Labour women’s conference is not ‘banning trans people’

Joan Smith

Reaction 08:15

The Liz Truss Show is sadder than it is funny

Tom Jones

Tommy Robinson is a cynical Christian Hush the noise, ye man of strife

Giles Fraser

5 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Memelords rule the White House Ragebait is a luxuriant expression of power

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Will civil war return to Syria? Its future is in the balance

Tam Hussein

6 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Labour’s grooming gang cowardice Working-class trust has been squandered

David Littlefair

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

Sex

How flirting lost its magic Pick-up artists had a point

Sarah Fletcher

8 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

Maduro has called Trump’s bluff The US must wage war or back down

John Masko

7 mins

5 Dec 2025 -

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

America

How Trump conquered Europe His security strategy betrays imperial intent

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Friday, December 5th Friday
Dec 5^th

Analysis 19:45

Venezuela war would undermine Trump’s National Security Strategy

The document insists on a clear and narrower definition of the American interest.

Sohrab Ahmari

Explainer 18:00

Why US mass killings are nearing a two-decade low

Robert VerBruggen

Reaction 15:20

Prince Harry doesn’t belong on late-night TV

Niall Gooch

News 13:00

Steven Pinker: Silicon Valley has become ‘neo-reactionary’

Phoebe Hunt

Analysis 11:00

Labour has never been honest about the assisted dying bill

Starmer has ignored the normal process and thrown political accountability out the window.

Yuan Yi Zhu

Debate 07:00

Is the West normalising mental health overdiagnosis?

Stella O'Malley

Thursday, December 4th Thursday
Dec 4^th

Explainer 20:00

Trump faces looming MAGA revolt over data centres

Charles McElwee

Analysis 18:00

Tesla slump sets up an EV battle with China

Gavin Haynes

News 16:30

Nigel Farage: my relationship with Tucker Carlson has ‘cooled’

Archie Earle

Debate 13:00

EU corruption scandal is another vindication of Brexit

Brussles has created a revolving door of plum public jobs without democratic accountability.

Peter Franklin

Analysis 10:00

Sam Altman is pursuing a dangerous AI arms race

Franklin Okeke

Explainer 07:00

Reform-Tory pact would be disastrous for the Right

Henry Hill

Attachment parenting is a guilt-trip Day care has been demonised

Rosie Gray

7 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Money

Asset-hoarding Boomers rob the young Our finances have gone ‘Vanity Fair’

Matthew Gasda

4 mins

2 Dec 2025 -

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

Space

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Robert Zubrin

8 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

Silicon Valley strongmen want to lead the West The future belongs to technologists

David Patrikarakos

9 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Drugs

My adopted baby was born an addict I understand why families can’t cope

Rosie Lewis

5 mins

1 Dec 2025 -

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

Prof. Sunetra Gupta The lost lessons of lockdown

Wednesday, December 3rd Wednesday
Dec 3^rd

Analysis 19:00

Diddy Netflix documentary is a Foucauldian spectacle

Ralph Leonard

Reaction 17:50

Moscow talks expose the fantasy of a fair peace deal

Jennifer Kavanagh

Debate 16:00

Racial equity is hurting college math scores

A generation of American educators weaned on the social-justice model of education won’t reform itself.

John Murawski

News 14:30

Keir Starmer: there will be no blasphemy law

Max Mitchell

Reaction 10:40

Republicans’ Tennessee victory can’t hide flawed messaging

Fred Bauer

Reaction 07:00

Sarah Everard report will change nothing

Josephine Bartosch

Tuesday, December 2nd Tuesday
Dec 2^nd

Debate 23:00

It’s time to end the White House press briefing

Ryan Zickgraf

News 17:20

Nine in 10 US undergraduates think words can be violence

Max Mitchell

Explainer 13:00

Glasgow’s asylum crisis is the result of SNP recklessness

Scotland’s much-vaunted tolerance of mass immigration is fraying.

Iain Macwhirter

Reaction 10:00

Why German businesses are flirting with the AfD

Katja Hoyer

Debate 07:00

Political resignations are becoming a blood sport

Richard Johnson

The therapy-scholar is killing academia Emoting is valued above intellectual heft

Susan Pickard

6 mins

6 Dec 2025 -

The truth about hitmen Britain’s gangland killers are incompetent

Max Daly

9 mins

28 Nov 2025 -

We’ll miss the Eton of the Valleys Working-class boys thrived without girls

Joel Day

8 mins

27 Nov 2025 -

Freddie Sayers What the Covid inquiry ignored

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The revolt on Streeting’s doorstep Leanne Mohamad is poised to overthrow him

Felix Pope

7 mins

5 Dec 2025 -

Can Britain escape its housing trap? Amateur landlords call the shots

Peter Apps

6 mins

26 Nov 2025 -

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 Labour’s Keir Starmer problem

Weekend Opinion

Eurovision’s bum-note boycott Politics has silenced the Joy of Song

Julie Burchill

4 mins

6 Dec 2025 -

Monday, December 1st Monday
Dec 1^st

Analysis 18:00

Vietnam’s Huawei deal exposes limits of Western pressure on China

Franklin Okeke

Explainer 15:45

Bitcoin slump heralds wider market crash

John Rapley

Analysis 11:50

Your Party is no friend of the working class

David Littlefair

Debate 10:00

Pardoning Netanyahu would further divide Israel

Limor Simhony Philpott

Factcheck 07:00

Are record numbers of young Britons really emigrating?

Will Solfiac

Sunday, November 30th Sunday
Nov 30^th

Explainer 18:00

Japan and China’s cold war is intensifying

Sanae Takaichi's recent hawkishness on Taiwan isn't entirely out of character.

Philip Patrick

Reaction 13:35

What Tucker Carlson gets wrong about Britain

Samuel Rubinstein

Analysis 08:00

Downfall of top ally leaves Zelensky vulnerable

Bethany Elliott

Northern Ireland’s last huntsmen The working-class tradition faces a ban

Adam James Pollock

6 mins

25 Nov 2025 -

Sex

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

Matthew Crawford The truth about ‘Smart Cities’

Should Labour sack Starmer & will Reeves bankrupt Britain?

The Econoclasts

Can we forgive Olivia Nuzzi? She is a tragic figure

Kat Rosenfield

6 mins

5 Dec 2025 -

music

How Radiohead let down their fans Politics has come back to bite Thom Yorke

Darran Anderson

8 mins

21 Nov 2025 -

Europe

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18.11 2025

Poland rail bombing signals Russian escalation against Nato

09.11 2025

Switzerland’s population cap plan could influence Europe

15.10 2025

Are Europe and China set for a chip war?

The triumph of Brexitball

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

Giorgia Meloni’s patron saint of nationalism

Andrea Valentino

6 mins

The Econoclasts Rachel Reeves’ fatal mistake

Saturday, November 29th Saturday
Nov 29^th

Reaction 13:00

Kemi Badenoch is wrong: Christianity created the welfare state

Politicians should think before mining scripture for out-of-context talking points.

Peter Franklin

News 08:00

Salman Rushdie: BBC removal of Trump criticism was ‘cowardly’

Rob Lownie

Friday, November 28th Friday
Nov 28^th

Analysis 18:00

Is drone terrorism coming to Britain?

Charlie Metcalfe

Debate 15:30

Sally Rooney is not a victim of censorship

Julie Burchill

Analysis 13:00

Will the EU abandon its Russian oil and gas embargo?

Jack Smith

Reaction 07:00

Britain’s falling migration is not a vindication of Labour

The reason the net figure looks so comparably reasonable is due to emigration.

Henry Hill

Weekend analysis

David Cameron was the future once Does the former prime minister have any regrets?

Michael Cockerell

8 mins

6 Dec 2025 -

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Tim Wigmore

6 mins

20 Nov 2025 -

Books

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

Mary Harrington, Helen Thompson & Aaron Bastani Should Britain divorce America?

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

The Econoclasts

The transgressions of Tom Stoppard His 'outsider' status was a gift

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

from the archive

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body She represents an ideal of adulthood

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

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

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Deep Dive Will Trump destroy the BBC?

Weekend spotlight

The Bermuda Triangle swallowed our reason Conspiracy culture was born in its depths

Frederick Kaufman

5 mins

6 Dec 2025 -

Thursday, November 27th Thursday
Nov 27^th

Reaction 18:00

Brighton Council’s censorship targets progressive art

Ella Nixon

Debate 16:30

The BBC is pushing the ‘happy hooker’ myth

Julie Bindel

Analysis 13:00

Has Jordan Bardella conquered the anti-RN alliance?

He represents better than anyone the detoxified brand Marine Le Pen worked to create.

Francois Valentin

Reaction 10:00

Steve Witkoff leaks spark a moral panic among DC hawks

Sohrab Ahmari

Analysis 07:00

Lacklustre Budget keeps the bond markets steady — for now

John Rapley

Wednesday, November 26th Wednesday
Nov 26^th

Reaction 21:00

Will Mamdani bow to activists on school policy?

Meagan O'Rourke

Analysis 16:20

Children’s declining language skills are a silent crisis

Unless we act soon, we will raise a generation for whom loneliness is the default.

Stella O'Malley

Explainer 14:35

Budget puts Labour under pressure from Left and Right

John Oxley

Debate 11:00

Scrapping jury trials won’t solve Britain’s legal backlog

Yuan Yi Zhu

Reaction 07:00

Russia’s G8 return would signal Europe’s shrinking influence

Philip Cunliffe

The high street’s authoritarian turn Live facial recognition is no solution to crime

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov 2025 -

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

Ian Birrell

10 mins

17 Nov 2025 -

Emily Kopp The CIA’s Wuhan “cover-up”

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

The Econoclasts

Trump’s lawless narco-war The military-industrial complex feeds off conflict

Brandan Buck

5 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

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

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov 2025 -

War

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06.11 2025

What is Prince Harry hiding in his Remembrance Sunday essay?

28.09 2025

Europe will regret seizing frozen Russian assets

27.09 2025

Israel won’t accept Tony Blair’s Gaza plan

Trump forces Europe to face facts

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

Military drones will upend the world

James Kingston

9 mins

Emily Jashinsky Inside the new Epstein file dump

Tuesday, November 25th Tuesday
Nov 25^th

Reaction 19:00

Trump’s AI moratorium is triggering bipartisan resistance

Michael Lind

News 17:30

Poll: only 8% of Brits think Budget will help their finances

Archie Earle

Analysis 16:00

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

We should be careful that we are not just putting up diagnosis rates without stopping men from dying.

Margaret McCartney

Debate 13:00

Why hasn’t Britain banned the Muslim Brotherhood?

Limor Simhony Philpott

Reaction 10:00

The BBC’s real problem with unconscious bias

Jide Ehizele

Analysis 07:00

Labour can’t afford to ignore entrepreneur exodus

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, November 24th Monday
Nov 24^th

Debate 19:30

DOGE may be gone, but its principles live on

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 16:00

Migrant workers won’t fix Britain’s fiscal black hole

Long-term costs are not picked up by the OBR’s models, which merely look at GDP and productivity.

Chris Bayliss

Reaction 13:00

Zack Polanski is coming for Labour’s London strongholds

Peter Franklin

Analysis 10:00

Rachel Reeves is putting Labour over the UK economy

John Rapley

Debate 07:00

Europe’s peace plan for Ukraine is a futile gesture

Bethany Elliott

folklore

The parable of Sycamore Gap The tree has become a fantasy object

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

5 Dec 2025 -

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

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov 2025 -

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

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov 2025 -

The Econoclasts The phoney war between Big Tech & government

Trump: the Multipolar President?

These Times

Jacinda Ardern is painfully relatable She is wrong about rehumanising politics

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov 2025 -

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 Trump’s 50-year mortgage backlash

Big Tech are the new Soviets We’re in a planned economy now

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Sunday, November 23rd Sunday
Nov 23^rd

Reaction 19:00

X’s location tags expose the real engines of online outrage

Oliver Bateman

Debate 16:00

Church weddings are an antidote to liquid modernity

Binding yourself to another person is a profoundly counter-cultural act.

Niall Gooch

Explainer 13:00

Trump peace plan offers Ukraine a Finnish model for success

Johan Wennström

Reaction 08:00

NHS puberty blocker trial puts vulnerable children at risk

Joan Smith

Saturday, November 22nd Saturday
Nov 22^nd

Analysis 16:00

Is Pennsylvania slipping out of Trump’s grasp?

Charles McElwee

Dispatch 12:30

Inside Trump and Mamdani’s unlikely alliance

Mamdani’s meteoric rise has earned great respect from the President.

Emily Jashinsky

Explainer 08:00

Europe’s migrant return scheme is doomed to fail

Susanne Mundschenk

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

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 Nov 2025 -

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

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov 2025 -

The Econoclasts The Euro’s fatal flaw

How the BBC killed HARDtalk

Stephen Sackur

Why Quebec banned God It is now a hostile place for the faithful

Giles Fraser

5 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

Mayoral election

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

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov 2025 -

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

Emily Jashinsky Inside the shutdown deal

Friday, November 21st Friday
Nov 21^st

Analysis 19:00

Ukraine-Russia peace plan offers best chance to end the war

Anatol Lieven

Debate 17:00

Minnesota welfare fraud exposes the failure of assimilation

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 13:10

UK Covid Inquiry is an exercise in political theatre

Henry Hill

Debate 10:00

Germany is not ready to lead Nato forces in Europe

Katja Hoyer

Analysis 07:00

Covid Inquiry doubles down on myths that justified lockdowns

Leaders remain determined to evade accountability for the devastation they inflicted.

David Paton

Thursday, November 20th Thursday
Nov 20^th

Debate 19:30

Tom Steyer would drag California further Left on climate

Joel Kotkin

Debate 18:00

Don’t confuse the AI bubble with dotcom mania

Michael Lind

Reaction 15:45

New EHRC guidance reinforces gender stereotypes

Victoria Smith

Explainer 13:00

Britain’s narrowing roads are a new war on cars

The new advice shows a total lack of imagination for the future of transport use.

Tim Abrahams

News 11:00

German censorship funding increases by 500% since 2020

Archie Earle

Debate 07:00

British Steel sale threatens national security

Andrew O'Brien

Are we heading for net zero migration? Falling numbers spell trouble for Reform

Freddie Sayers

6 mins

3 Dec 2025 -

new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov 2025 -

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

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov 2025 -

Nina Power Alasdair MacIntyre philosophy masterclass

The rise of the multipolar world order

These Times

The Islamist brotherhood inside our prisons I witnessed it first-hand

Steve Gallant

7 mins

2 Dec 2025 -

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

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov 2025 -