Minneapolis shooting

ICE theatrics are getting real Riled-up Americans are turning violent

Malcom Kyeyune

Malcom Kyeyune

9 mins

9 Jan 2026 -

TV

The philosophy of ‘The Traitors’ We cannot know other minds

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


Imperialism

Will Europe ever wake up? America loathes the continent’s elites

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

7 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


TV

The philosophy of ‘The Traitors’ We cannot know other minds

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


Imperialism

Will Europe ever wake up? America loathes the continent’s elites

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

7 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


dispatch

The land that Westernisation forgot Kyrgyzstan feels America’s absence

Sam Kahn

Sam Kahn

8 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


Media

Nick Shirley and the rotten new journalism He embodies the Right’s low standards

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

6 mins

9 Jan 2026 -

TV

The philosophy of ‘The Traitors’ We cannot know other minds

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

9 Jan 2026 -

Imperialism

Will Europe ever wake up? America loathes the continent’s elites

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

7 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


dispatch

The land that Westernisation forgot Kyrgyzstan feels America’s absence

Sam Kahn

Sam Kahn

8 mins

9 Jan 2026 -

spheres of influence

The space war will be won in Greenland The High North is a vital strategic asset

Pippa Malmgren

Pippa Malmgren

5 mins

8 Jan 2026 -


Vogue

The fat-girl era is killing ‘Vogue’  The magazine should celebrate Bardot

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

4 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


Friedrich Nietzsche

How I outgrew Nietzsche His philosophy compensated for not being good at life

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

Canada

Can Canada keep its independence? The country’s greatest thinker foretold its failure — and ours 

George Dunn

George Dunn

6 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Books

Why artists choose Catholicism A new book on converts explains Rome’s cool-factor

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

29 Dec 2025 -

Media

Nick Shirley and the rotten new journalism He embodies the Right’s low standards

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

6 mins

9 Jan 2026 -


Middle East

Iran’s cycle of revenge Its people must learn to forgive

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

4 mins

8 Jan 2026 -

Venezuela

Trump must resist nation building He risks betraying America First

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Profile

Inside the mind of Laila Cunningham On the road with Reform’s rising star

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

10 mins

8 Jan 2026 -


Prison

The truth about sex behind bars Ruthless inmates are masters of seduction

Steve Gallant

Steve Gallant

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Year ahead

What expert forecasters are predicting in 2026 Their focus is on Iran, SpaceX and Reform

James Newport

James Newport

11 mins

6 Jan 2026 -

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
Geopolitics

What Putin does next Like Trump, he has neighbours to topple

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

8 mins

7 Jan 2026 -


Utopia

Chavismo’s useful idiots The British Left was seduced by a fantasy

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

8 Jan 2026 -

Review

Wes Anderson’s Potemkin movies Real life is not a patisserie

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -


The Right

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

Nikos Mohammadi

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

3 Jan 2026 -

Femininity

Why are women sleeping with Jellycats? Soft toys represent a crisis of femininity

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Inauguration

New York is headed for disaster Zohran Mamdani isn’t ready for power

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Venezuela

Donald Trump’s oil gamble Is it black gold — or fool’s gold?

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Jan 2026 -


Year In Review

Britain’s free speech paradox The law has become incoherent

Jonathan Sumption

Jonathan Sumption

20 mins

31 Dec 2025 -

Christmas Read

John Quincy Adams never stopped fighting His diaries reveal an anti-slavery obsession

William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann

15 mins

29 Dec 2025 -


Intellectuals

How Big Tech killed literary culture The philistines are in charge now

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

6 mins

7 Jan 2026 -

Year in review

The grooming gang scandal isn’t over Labour is looking the other way

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

20 mins

29 Dec 2025 -

diplomacy

Will 2026 be a year of war? Spheres of influence are solidifying

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -


Year In Review

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

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

26 Dec 2025 -

Year in review

The age of nihilism is over Gen Z wants to fill the void

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

25 Dec 2025 -


Politics

Has Mumsnet fallen for Farage? Labour is losing Middle England

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

6 Jan 2026 -

Year in Review

The Ulsterisation of English politics Westminster is losing legitimacy

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

24 Dec 2025 -

Regime change

Venezuela’s path to freedom It is menaced by colonels, cartels — and Trump

Juan David Rojas

Juan David Rojas

6 mins

4 Jan 2026 -


Dispatch

Christmas in Noah’s Ark Believers are flocking to Kentucky

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

9 mins

23 Dec 2025 -

Poverty

Birmingham’s Dickensian nightmare The second city needs a new Christmas Carol

Alex Taylor and Tracy King

Alex Taylor and Tracy King

6 mins

22 Dec 2025 -


Regime change

MAGA’s samurai justice in Venezuela Self-interested policing is nothing new

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

6 Jan 2026 -

Multiculturalism

Consider the roadman He is feared, mocked and exploited

Ralph Leonard

Ralph Leonard

6 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Analysis

The Left must embrace freedom Notions of fairness and equality won’t cut it

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


Christmas

Our daemonic drive for drunkenness Rawdogging consciousness isn’t easy

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

4 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Espionage

The UK is falling into China’s trap Our institutions are exposed

Luke de Pulford

Luke de Pulford

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -


Geopolitics

The paradox of Trumpian Realism Imperial hubris won’t make America stronger

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Technology

How amateur hackers designed our future They foresaw machine intelligence

Carl Miller

Carl Miller

6 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Essay

‘Excalibur’ is English fantasia John Boorman’s myth is richer than reality

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

3 Jan 2026 -


review

What if Napoleon had won? Counterfactual history has seldom been so rich

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

15 Dec 2025 -

Ken Burns

America was never inclusive Progressive whitewashing won’t succeed

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

12 Dec 2025 -


Internet

How the Twitch pundit triumphed Politics has become a game

Alys Key

Alys Key

6 mins

5 Jan 2026 -

Trade war

Claudia Sheinbaum: Trump whisperer Mexico’s Leftist leader has surprised critics

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -

Protests

Iran’s fate is in Trump’s hands The President holds the cards

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

4 mins

2 Jan 2026 -


Civilisation

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

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Real estate

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

Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -


new year

Why I resolve to ignore the psychologists Let’s dream of exuberant reinvention

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

One year on

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

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

6 mins

8 Dec 2025 -

Labour

Why Starmer won’t survive 2026 Cancelling elections could doom his premiership

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

1 Jan 2026 -


South America

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

John Masko

John Masko

7 mins

5 Dec 2025 -

Sex

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

Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher

8 mins

4 Dec 2025 -


technology

It’s time for neo-Temperance Could Appstinence cure modern brain rot

Louis Elton

Louis Elton

7 mins

2 Jan 2026 -

Space

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

8 mins

3 Dec 2025 -