Weekend essay

Britain’s common-sense crisis Progressives inhabit a different reality

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Science-Fiction

Have you corrected your racist robot? It’s Philip K. Dick’s world — we’re just living in it

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Weekend Reading

How Tarot re-enchanted my life The cards can save us from spiritual asphyxiation

Rob Doyle

Rob Doyle

6 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Gen X

Stop binning your heirlooms We are anchored by physical possessions

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Obituary

Dolly Parton: head of the country class She was Appalachia’s patron saint

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

5 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Reading

How Tarot re-enchanted my life The cards can save us from spiritual asphyxiation

Rob Doyle

Rob Doyle

6 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved The time-thief’s monopoly must end

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Science-Fiction

Have you corrected your racist robot? It’s Philip K. Dick’s world — we’re just living in it

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Public Health

The great Covid reckoning  It’s essential to stopping the next pandemic 

Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Obituary

Dolly Parton: head of the country class She was Appalachia’s patron saint

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

5 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


The Right

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA Exiled hawks refuse to assimilate

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

8 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Political Economy

The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war He should be targeting China, not allies

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

4 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Sex

The return of the foot fetish The ‘barefoot shoe’ channels Gen Z’s favourite kink

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

War

Germany’s Nord Stream grudge The looming trial could undermine support for Ukraine

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Weekend Reading

How Tarot re-enchanted my life The cards can save us from spiritual asphyxiation

Rob Doyle

Rob Doyle

6 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Science-Fiction

Have you corrected your racist robot? It’s Philip K. Dick’s world — we’re just living in it

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

29 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved The time-thief’s monopoly must end

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Public Health

The great Covid reckoning  It’s essential to stopping the next pandemic 

Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Death

Why corpses shouldn’t be sacred Beneath our reverence lies hostility

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

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
Weekend Essay

The return of the loony Left Jason Arday has triggered a collapse of reason

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:05am


Independence

Not now, Scots Nats! The age of AI demands unity

James Kingston

James Kingston

8 mins

28 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

The Right

How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA Exiled hawks refuse to assimilate

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

8 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Political Economy

The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war He should be targeting China, not allies

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

4 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Royals

Harry and Meghan cannot escape their fate They are prisoners of the royal family

Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley

6 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Sex

The return of the foot fetish The ‘barefoot shoe’ channels Gen Z’s favourite kink

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

AfD

Germany’s demographic disaster The AfD is fanning fears of depopulation

Katja Hoyer

Katja Hoyer

7 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Weekend Essay

The collapse of the postwar order We can’t evade reality forever

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

10 mins

22 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

deep history

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

David Keenan

David Keenan

6 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 10:12am


Obituary

Dolly Parton: head of the country class She was Appalachia’s patron saint

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

5 mins

27 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Cambridge

The Jason Arday delusion Scapegoating is punitive and crass

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

21 Aug 2026 - 12:04am

Politics

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

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

5 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


MAGA

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

Antonio de Loera-Brust

Antonio de Loera-Brust

7 mins

20 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Literature

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

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

6 mins

19 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


tikTok

The reckless psychology of boy racers TikTok offers a gallery of admirers

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Healthcare

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

Joel Looper

Joel Looper

7 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Celebrity

How Hollywood devoured Hayden Panettiere Child stars often fall

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

18 Aug 2026 - 12:03am


Andy Burnham

Why we tolerate homelessness Familiarity has bred resignation

Darren McGarvey

Darren McGarvey

5 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Essay

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

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

12 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Devolution

Local councils are worse than you think They make ‘The Office’ look good

Anonymous Data Scientist

Anonymous Data Scientist

8 mins

26 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Activism

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

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

14 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Cambridge

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

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Aug 2026 - 12:04am


War

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

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

7 mins

13 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Jackboots

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

Ari Hoffman

Ari Hoffman

6 mins

12 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


jet set

The death of middle-class luxuries The Iran war has doomed budget airlines

Malcom Kyeyune

Malcom Kyeyune

7 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Silicon Valley

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

Harrison Stetler

Harrison Stetler

6 mins

11 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend dispatch

Inside the Albanian revolution The cult of Edi Rama is unravelling

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

17 mins

15 Aug 2026 - 12:05am


Ideas

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

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

10 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

Antisemitism

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

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

5 mins

7 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Crime

Britain’s penny-pinching panopticon ‘Restriction zones’ won’t make women safer

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

6 mins

25 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Polarisation

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

James Billot

James Billot

7 mins

6 Aug 2026 - 12:00am

The Left

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

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 3:03pm

The Right

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

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

5 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


motherhood

Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy? She is every mother’s worst nightmare

Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith

5 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:02am

Education

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

Daisy Christodoulou

Daisy Christodoulou

8 mins

4 Aug 2026 - 12:01am

Dispatch

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

Peter Santenello

Peter Santenello

12 mins

3 Aug 2026 - 12:00am


Accusation Culture

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

Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey

10 mins

1 Aug 2026 - 12:06am

TV

The enshittification of Netflix Placeslop has ruined the platform

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin

7 mins

24 Aug 2026 - 12:01am


Health

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

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

6 mins

31 Jul 2026 - 12:13am