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Thursday, October 8 Thursday
Oct 8^th

Reaction 18:00

Democrats’ civil war over Israel is a midterms liability

Sam Kahn

Analysis 16:00

Could France’s debt crisis cause a European financial crash?

Jagjit Chadha

Analysis 11:15

Royal Navy spying case is just the start of UK’s espionage problems

Royal Navy spying case is just the start of UK’s espionage problems

Ian Proud

Wednesday, October 7 Wednesday
Oct 7^th

Debate 20:00

LeBron James Polymarket deal cheapens sport

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The on-court product will become increasingly irrelevant.

Matthew Gasda

Analysis 15:30

Majority of antisemitic assaults now come from the Left

Eric Kaufmann

Reaction 13:15

Is Labour really facing up to migrant sex crime?

Is Labour really facing up to migrant sex crime?

Nina Welsch

Debate 10:00

The Right is outgrowing Fox News

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 07:00

Russian plague is not the next Covid

David Paton

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There's nothing more French than a riot

Revolution

There's nothing more French than a riot The kids know their history

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:04am

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid

Pandemics

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid

Kevin M. Esvelt

8 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:01am

The return of the great American exile novel

Review

The return of the great American exile novel

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:00am

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid We'd better get prepared

Kevin M. Esvelt

8 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:01am

The return of the great American exile novel

Review

The return of the great American exile novel A conservative writer seeks reality in Paris

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:00am

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid

Pandemics

Why bioweapons are impossible to avoid We'd better get prepared

Kevin M. Esvelt

8 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:01am

The return of the great American exile novel

Review

The return of the great American exile novel A conservative writer seeks reality in Paris

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:00am

From the UK edition

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Holborn by-election decisively ends the Green wave

Holborn by-election decisively ends the Green wave

David Jeffery

Thursday, October 8 Thursday
Oct 8^th

Explainer 13:00

Why Birmingham is Britain’s benefits capital

Dan Cave

Dispatch 07:00

Kemi Badenoch’s popularity won’t spark a Tory revival

Rob Lownie

Monday, October 5 Monday
Oct 5^th

Debate 17:00

Robert Jenrick’s war on petty crime will resonate with voters

Niall Gooch

Sunday, October 4 Sunday
Oct 4^th

Reaction 17:00

Greens’ Zionism vote is the price of activist politics

Joan Smith

Analysis 08:00

Rejoining the EU would throttle Britain’s AI industry

Rejoining the EU would throttle Britain’s AI industry

Wolfgang Munchau

Friday, October 2 Friday
Oct 2^nd

News 19:30

Green official: dress modestly to appeal to Muslim voters

Green official: dress modestly to appeal to Muslim voters

Archie Earle

Analysis 07:00

Right to Buy deserves to die

Fraser Maclean

Thursday, October 1 Thursday
Oct 1^st

Debate 16:00

Early prisoner releases will plague Andy Burnham

Early prisoner releases will plague Andy Burnham

Ian Acheson

Wednesday, September 30 Wednesday
Sep 30^th

Reaction 16:00

Burnham’s EU plans make a mockery of Manchesterism

Adam James Pollock

Barbara O’Neill’s sickening gospel

Barbara O’Neill’s sickening gospel She preaches a dangerous message

Sarah Ditum

6 mins

Oct 9 2026 - 12:02am

Can anyone unite North London?

dispatch

Can anyone unite North London? Zack Polanski has his work cut out

Miles Ellingham

8 mins

Oct 8 2026 - 12:03am

The UK Tories aren’t bouncing back

The Right

The UK Tories aren’t bouncing back The party needs to reimagine itself

John Maier

7 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 9:10pm

The lesson of the Russian plague

Outbreak

The lesson of the Russian plague

Filippa Lentzos

6 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 12:04am

Watch & listen

The Econoclasts France is showing Europe what comes next

The Econoclasts Europe’s war fever is getting dangerous

Clarissa Ward Will mainstream media survive?

Iain McGilchrist AI versus the human soul

Nick Bostrom The truth about the AI panic

Politics

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07.22 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

06.29 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

06.27 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

Britain’s Conservative death spiral

Britain’s Conservative death spiral

George Owers

6 mins

Have the Greens lost all hope?

Have the Greens lost all hope?

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

The Econoclasts The centre-Left’s betrayal destroyed Europe

Tuesday, October 6 Tuesday
Oct 6^th

Debate 17:00

Don’t shed a tear for the death of the dinner party

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Who can host if they are never to be invited to return?

Valerie Stivers

Reaction 14:00

Jeffrey Archer was Britain’s favorite scoundrel

Jeffrey Archer was Britain’s favorite scoundrel

Samuel Rubinstein

Explainer 12:30

Scrapping USAID didn’t cause Latin America’s Rightward turn

David Agren

Analysis 10:00

Britain has become a breeding ground for terror

Wessie du Toit

Reaction 07:00

Pedro Sánchez’s progressive project is falling apart

Pedro Sánchez’s progressive project is falling apart

William Nattrass

Why Britain is the world’s C-section capital

NHS

Why Britain is the world’s C-section capital Childbirth will always be dangerous

Mary Harrington

6 mins

Oct 8 2026 - 12:02am

deep history

The sacred art of graffiti On cave drawings, teenage vandals and future ruins

David Keenan

6 mins

Aug 21 2026 - 10:12am

Weekend Dispatch

Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0 The alliance relies on coercion and censorship

Lily Lynch

7 mins

Jul 11 2026 - 12:03am

The Econoclasts The AI extinction myth is a scam

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Britain needs a bonds crisis

Economy

Britain needs a bonds crisis It would end the inertia

Damian Pudner

8 mins

Oct 8 2026 - 12:01am

Conservatives

Why hot people are Right-wing The beautiful inhabit a different reality

Turi Munthe

5 mins

Jul 2 2026 - 12:00am

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
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Why alt-Right women are wrong about Cornell

Sex

Why alt-Right women are wrong about Cornell Hating your own sex always backfires

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 12:03am

Monday, October 5 Monday
Oct 5^th

Analysis 18:45

Ted Cruz cannot restore the old GOP consensus

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This should be interpreted as an opening salvo in the post-Trump tug-of-war between the old and new Right.

Emily Jashinsky

News 15:00

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Tucker Carlson says foolish things for clicks

Rob Lownie

Explainer 13:30

RAF Fairford bomber withdrawal signals Britain’s security weakness

RAF Fairford bomber withdrawal signals Britain’s security weakness

Dominic Adler

Reaction 11:15

Brazil is set to be next domino in Latin America’s MAGA turn

Nick Burns

Analysis 07:00

Kemi Badenoch’s immigration plan won’t tempt back Reform voters

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Badenoch may not care about pleasing people, but she will have to offer more.

Rob Lownie

Weekend Essay

Can Burnham banish Maggie's ghost? She’s the root of Labour’s woes

Jonny Ball

7 mins

May 25 2026 - 12:00am

Exclusive

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:02am

The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The UK Tories aren’t bouncing back

The Right

The UK Tories aren’t bouncing back The party needs to reimagine itself

John Maier

7 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 9:10pm

Weekend Spotlight

The twilight of the intellectual dark web Heterodox thinkers have become circus acts

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

May 9 2026 - 12:10am

Culture

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08.04 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

07.19 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

02.15 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

The cinema of 9/11

The cinema of 9/11

David Thomson

6 mins

MR James still haunts England

MR James still haunts England

Alexander Poots

6 mins

Helen Andrews Are women to blame for woke?

Sunday, October 4 Sunday
Oct 4^th

Explainer 19:00

The Cornell Seven is fueling a campus media frenzy

The Cornell Seven is fueling a campus media frenzy

Nikos Mohammadi

News 13:00

Friends of the Earth chief: Palestine is a climate justice issue

Archie Earle

Saturday, October 3 Saturday
Oct 3^rd

Reaction 19:45

Jacob Rees-Mogg gave Tucker Carlson a lesson in British conservatism

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UK conservatism is more religious than its US counterpart — and all the better for it.

Peter Franklin

Debate 13:00

Christa Pike’s botched execution is the death penalty at its worst

Peter Hitchens

News 08:00

Number of children receiving disability benefits triples since 2010

Shea Ferguson

The Epstein-style corruption that enraged Brazil’s voters

The Epstein-style corruption that enraged Brazil’s voters Left and Right have dirty hands

Juan David Rojas

7 mins

Oct 6 2026 - 1:34am

writing

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

5 mins

Apr 10 2026 - 12:00am

Atlanticism

Can SNL save British comedy? It has caught Donald Trump’s eye

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

Mar 23 2026 - 12:00am

Aris Roussinos Inside the war for Piddington

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The lesson of the Russian plague

Outbreak

The lesson of the Russian plague

Filippa Lentzos

6 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 12:04am

Terrorism

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

Science

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06.18 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

11.25 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

10.01 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

Pippa Malmgren

8 mins

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Patrick McGee

4 mins

The Econoclasts Economic stagnation has broken German democracy

A history lesson for Tucker Carlson

War

A history lesson for Tucker Carlson His Hitler apologism is dangerous

Andrew Roberts

5 mins

Oct 5 2026 - 12:03am

Friday, October 2 Friday
Oct 2^nd

Explainer 18:00

Trump’s diesel order leaves Britain’s energy supply exposed

Chris Bayliss

News 16:15

Zohran Mamdani: joining the DSA helped my anxiety

Zohran Mamdani: joining the DSA helped my anxiety

UnHerd Staff

Debate 13:10

Europe is losing patience with Ukraine’s demands

William Nattrass

Reaction 10:00

How Jane Eyre could inspire a youth rebellion in China

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It is, above all, the story of a weak and apparently vulnerable person taking decisive action against authority.

Philip Hensher

Weekend Essay

How Gorton beat Denton The new politics is ethnic, not sectarian

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

Wolfgang Munchau The AfD momentum is unstoppable

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How to survive the end times

St Francis

How to survive the end times St Francis exposed our obsession with ownership

Simon Critchley

7 mins

Oct 7 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Essay

Why myths can save humanity Old stories fill our lives with dignity

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

Faith

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09.19 2026

Muslim cleric’s award withdrawal shows limits of liberal Christianity

07.05 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

09.26 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

How Tarot re-enchanted my life

How Tarot re-enchanted my life

Rob Doyle

6 mins

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

The Econoclasts Iceland has exposed Europe’s unity illusion

Thursday, October 1 Thursday
Oct 1^st

Reaction 18:00

Xavier Becerra: California’s charisma-free next governor

Joel Kotkin

Analysis 12:30

America.gov is taking on dysfunctional bureaucracy

Tom Ough

Debate 10:00

Rape victims should never be forced to use their attackers’ pronouns

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Sex matters whenever we talk about gender and power.

Victoria Smith

Reaction 07:00

Censoring Horrible Histories won't make history less horrible

Pratinav Anil

Wednesday, September 30 Wednesday
Sep 30^th

Debate 18:00

Even Zohran Mamdani is failing the anti-Zionism purity test

Even Zohran Mamdani is failing the anti-Zionism purity test

Josh Appel

Analysis 13:00

Reopening Strait of Hormuz leaves US with mixed success

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Less Iranian power will not automatically translate into more regional stability.

Daniel DePetris

Reaction 10:00

France’s establishment is struggling to stop Marine Le Pen

Peter Franklin

Debate 07:00

Are labradors really far-Right?

Are labradors really far-Right?

Wessie du Toit

What Burnham gets wrong about the Eighties

What Burnham gets wrong about the Eighties Thatcher offered voters a whole new world

John Merrick

7 mins

Oct 3 2026 - 12:15am

Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix The former nurse is as banal as she is evil

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

Feb 6 2026 - 12:00am

50 years on

Agatha Christie and the red scare Twenties crime capers were obsessed with communism

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts America is spiralling towards a debt crisis

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Rioters could hand Le Pen the presidency

Multiculturalism

Rioters could hand Le Pen the presidency Old France is sick of disorder

Andrew Hussey

6 mins

Oct 6 2026 - 12:03am

weekend essay

Britain's Atlantic subordination Our place in the world is clear

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

War

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08.27 2026

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

07.31 2026

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons?

What the West forgets about China

What the West forgets about China

David Lloyd Dusenbury

8 mins

Russia’s plot to break Nato

Russia’s plot to break Nato

Michal Kranz

8 mins

Simon Sebag Montefiore What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Digger: the flawed masterpiece we deserve

Weekend Culture

Digger: the flawed masterpiece we deserve The idiotic has become axiomatic

David Thomson

6 mins

Oct 3 2026 - 12:05am

Tuesday, September 29 Tuesday
Sep 29^th

News 18:30

Number of young teenagers identifying as LGB falls by over a third

Shea Ferguson

Debate 12:50

Title IX revision is a welcome return to biological reality

Ben Appel

Analysis 10:00

Nato needs to be accurate about the Russian threat

Nato needs to be accurate about the Russian threat

Michal Kranz

Reaction 07:00

Afghan women resettlement scheme is no betrayal of border control

Josephine Bartosch

Looksmaxxing is the new trans Clavicular’s cybertruck smashes conservative hope

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

Year In Review

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

Richard D. Wolff The decline of the US empire

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Inside the Lyme disease industrial complex

Inside the Lyme disease industrial complex Private clinics exploit uncertainty

Margaret McCartney and Deborah Cohen

9 mins

Oct 6 2026 - 12:01am

America

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

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

Society

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09.29 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

09.28 2025

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

09.25 2025

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

The death of prep-school England

The death of prep-school England

Cosmo Adair

8 mins

The problem with paedo-hunters

The problem with paedo-hunters

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

The Econoclasts Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

Monday, September 28 Monday
Sep 28^th

Debate 17:45

Saturday Night Live has lost its touch

Emily Jashinsky

Debate 15:45

John Healey is turning into Rachel Reeves

John Healey is turning into Rachel Reeves

Andrew O'Brien

Analysis 11:30

RAF Fairford incident could accelerate IRGC threat to Britain

Kyle Orton

Reaction 07:00

Hamas asylum case shows depth of Whitehall’s ideological bias

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The further down the ladder one goes, the less important political impartiality becomes.

Arthur Reynolds

Sunday, September 27 Sunday
Sep 27^th

News 16:30

Peter Thiel: AfD is wrong about Ukraine, Israel and China

Archie Earle

Debate 13:00

Left-wing push to rejoin EU only benefits Farage

Left-wing push to rejoin EU only benefits Farage

Lee David Evans

Explainer 08:00

Britain is entering the age of space warfare

Gabriel Elefteriu

How the West got addicted to trauma

Society

How the West got addicted to trauma The new psychology is wholly bourgeois

Sam Jennings

9 mins

Oct 3 2026 - 12:00am

zoomers

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

History

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Ron Paul The US bailout machine is spiralling

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The Dutch are sick of hyper-liberalism

euthanasia

The Dutch are sick of hyper-liberalism Even toddlers can be euthanized

Nicolien van Vroonhoven

5 mins

Oct 5 2026 - 12:01am

Nobel peace prize

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Oct 9 2025 - 11:59pm