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TODAY’S EERIE ECHOES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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Turing Test

When Dawkins met Claude Could this AI be conscious?

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

7 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Dispatch

A night patrol with Glasgow’s vigilantes Elections can’t salvage Scotland’s shipwreck

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

11 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Parenting

The autism blame game Parents often have good reason not to trust authorities

Jennifer Schofield

Jennifer Schofield

9 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Dispatch

A night patrol with Glasgow’s vigilantes Elections can’t salvage Scotland’s shipwreck

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

11 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Parenting

The autism blame game Parents often have good reason not to trust authorities

Jennifer Schofield

Jennifer Schofield

9 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Racecraft

The Supreme Court’s vote ruling empowers minorities Now Dems will have to earn their support

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

5 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 9:50am


Autocracy

Will the war bring down Erdoğan? His regime needs growth to survive

Andrew Finkel

Andrew Finkel

6 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 11:59pm

Dispatch

A night patrol with Glasgow’s vigilantes Elections can’t salvage Scotland’s shipwreck

Felix Pope

Felix Pope

11 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Parenting

The autism blame game Parents often have good reason not to trust authorities

Jennifer Schofield

Jennifer Schofield

9 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Racecraft

The Supreme Court’s vote ruling empowers minorities Now Dems will have to earn their support

Alicia Nieves

Alicia Nieves

5 mins

30 Apr 2026 - 9:50am

Political Violence

Attack of the killer centrists Deranged moderates are taking up arms

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 12:57am


Politics

Morgan McSweeney’s inside job Labour may never recover

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


Luxury beliefs

Shoplifting isn’t a political statement Middle-class crims are the worst

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Economics

How financialisation broke Britain We bet the house — and lost

Dominik A. Leusder

Dominik A. Leusder

10 mins

28 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Washington DC

My night with the Republican power gays Trump’s new elite turned up for Grindr

John Maier

John Maier

6 mins

29 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Gender

The sexual revolution was always a failure Alice Munro was a case study

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

13 mins

25 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Trump assassination attempt

Are we all conspiracy theorists now? The Washington gunman has sparked paranoia

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

4 mins

26 Apr 2026 - 5:10pm

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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State visit

The horrible history of the Special Relationship 1776 never ended

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

28 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


Terrorism

Cole Tomas Allen is a postmodern symptom We’re starved for grand narratives

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

6 mins

28 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Broken Democracy

When America’s rot reached my doorstep It’s a new age of corruption

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


culture wars

When gender medicine crashed out Secret WPATH videos open a woke time capsule

Benjamin Ryan

Benjamin Ryan

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:34am

solidarity

Champions League is the people’s theatre Football combines artistry with mass devotion

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

28 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Demography

Japan’s bleak vision of the future Robots won’t solve the fertility crisis

Tom Feiling

Tom Feiling

6 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:05am

Iran war

Will Trump cause a Greater Depression? Dollar swaps are a bad sign

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

27 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


inequality

How AI will change society Technology can level the playing field

Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury

5 mins

21 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Nationalism

The grim truth about remigration Salonica’s fate shows the cost of cohesion

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

20 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


State Visit

How Britain gave America the ick I still remember their early romance

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

6 mins

27 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Review

Why contemporary artists worship tech The New Museum envisions a bleak future

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

weekend culture

Has Michael Jackson been forgiven? The divide may be racial

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

8 mins

26 Apr 2026 - 12:45am


Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

War

The Pope versus the President Conservative Catholics face a choice

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

10 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Smoking ban

Requiem for a cig The smoking ban is Cromwellian

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

6 mins

27 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Data Centres

The grey belt was made for Big Tech But Labour can’t explain why

Greg Noone

Greg Noone

8 mins

15 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

weekend essay

Starmer versus the Blob Weak politicians need a scapegoat

Lawrence Newport

Lawrence Newport

6 mins

26 Apr 2026 - 12:40am


Education

How red states are killing college Anti-DEI has created a red-tape nightmare

Richard A. Greenwald

Richard A. Greenwald

7 mins

14 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Gambling

Is Polymarket a threat to democracy? The money is simply too good

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Review

Russell Brand: spray-on Christian He still worships himself

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Literature

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

David Keenan

5 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Interview

Rowan Williams: The diabolical is everywhere

Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers

10 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


Dispatch

Inside Charleston’s craft renaissance Young artisans are defying AI

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Technology

Will AI kill off populism? Conspiracy theorists are in the firing line

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

7 mins

8 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


The Blob

Should we pity civil servants? Whitehall’s allure is fading

Josiah Gogarty

Josiah Gogarty

7 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Academic wars

Why the ‘heterodox’ university failed Contrarianism became a new conformity

Edmund King and Thomas Prosser

Edmund King and Thomas Prosser

9 mins

7 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

gender

Why young women hate men The femosphere has hardened their hearts

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Religion

Can we have the good without Good Friday? ‘The Exorcist’ captures our predicament

Susan Pickard

Susan Pickard

6 mins

3 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Ethics

Warrior justice comes for Iran Trump’s war satisfies martial virtue

Justin Lee

Justin Lee

5 mins

2 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


Middle East

A new Iraq war is coming Tehran is rallying its proxies

Matt Broomfield

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Space

Artemis mission reeks of Musk Don’t cheer for the Nasa mission

Gerard DeGroot

Gerard DeGroot

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Nationalism

Why Labour lost Wales Devolution has fed the dragon

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Protests

How Trump saved the Left His hubris reawakened the opposition

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Middle East

The Boomer-uncle war Trump has no strategy beyond spectacle

Heather Penatzer

Heather Penatzer

5 mins

31 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


St George's Day

Is London an English city? The country has disowned its capital

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

9 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:03am

Gender Wars

Can orgies solve the fertility crisis? Bronze Age Pervert is half right

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

10 mins

30 Mar 2026 - 12:10am

Gilded Age

The return of Britain’s slums Our zombie economy feeds landlordism

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

21 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


Dispatch

Is Barrow still Britain’s unhappiest town? New submarines offer a lifeboat

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

27 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

The Left

How Democrats win on foreign policy America is shifting Left on Israel and Iran 

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 11:46pm


Review

Claudia McLean: I transitioned — and regretted it Misdiagnosis is all too common

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

6 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

War

Bibi’s ‘existential’ obsession Iran blinded him to closer threats

Amir Tibon

Amir Tibon

7 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 12:00am