The Econoclasts

Germany’s economic death trap

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Sexism

Labour’s anti-porn fantasy Workshops reek of hapless boomerism

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

24 Dec 2025 -

Dispatch

Where circus elephants spend Christmas The big top endures in small towns

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

7 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


culture

Can campness save Stranger Things? Viewers have never suffered so much

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

11 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


Dispatch

Where circus elephants spend Christmas The big top endures in small towns

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

7 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


culture

Can campness save Stranger Things? Viewers have never suffered so much

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

11 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


Year in Review

The Ulsterisation of English politics Westminster is losing legitimacy

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


Patriarchy

Andrew Tate’s bruised masculinity The Bottom G will leave no legacy

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

23 Dec 2025 -

Dispatch

Where circus elephants spend Christmas The big top endures in small towns

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

7 mins

24 Dec 2025 -

culture

Can campness save Stranger Things? Viewers have never suffered so much

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

11 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


Year in Review

The Ulsterisation of English politics Westminster is losing legitimacy

Aris Roussinos

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

24 Dec 2025 -

Dispatch

Christmas in Noah’s Ark Believers are flocking to Kentucky

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

9 mins

23 Dec 2025 -


Liberalism

The curious liberalism of the ‘Axis of Evil’ Rogue regimes missed the post-liberal memo

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

7 mins

24 Dec 2025 -


Literature

The philosophy of ‘A Christmas Carol’  In the Dickens classic, Christ redeems capitalism

Emily Jashinsky

Emily Jashinsky

6 mins

23 Dec 2025 -

Elections

Gavin Newsom is having fun And it makes him a plausible candidate

Ross Barkan

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 Dec 2025 -

Mental health

Self-diagnosis is driving teens mad All the guys want a girl with ’tism

Lily Hamson

Lily Hamson

5 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

Patriarchy

Andrew Tate’s bruised masculinity The Bottom G will leave no legacy

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

23 Dec 2025 -


Performance

The miracle of live music The Radiohead gig was profoundly moving

Nick Cave

Nick Cave

2 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 -

Anniversary

Jane Austen was no Romantic Sensibility needs to be restrained by sense

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

23 Dec 2025 -


Christmas

Our daemonic drive for drunkenness Rawdogging consciousness isn’t easy

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

4 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Multiculturalism

Consider the roadman He is feared, mocked and exploited

Ralph Leonard

Ralph Leonard

6 mins

19 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
exclusive

JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’ The VP on the Right’s civil war

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

22 Dec 2025 -


Interview

Full transcript: JD Vance on American identity Plus, he speaks on Ukraine, Israel, the Pope and more

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

13 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

Technology

How amateur hackers designed our future They foresaw machine intelligence

Carl Miller

Carl Miller

6 mins

16 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 -

Refugees

Poland has turned on its Ukrainians Violence against refugees is soaring

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

7 mins

22 Dec 2025 -

review

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

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

15 Dec 2025 -

Turning Point

Will MAGA survive its civil war? Infighting has engulfed the Right

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

5 mins

21 Dec 2025 -


Ken Burns

America was never inclusive Progressive whitewashing won’t succeed

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

12 Dec 2025 -

Trade war

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

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

6 mins

11 Dec 2025 -


Antisemitism

The Chanukah candle still burns bright Jews must remain defiant

David Mamet

David Mamet

5 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

Civilisation

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

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

10 Dec 2025 -

Weekend Dispatch

How Costco seduced Britain’s middle class American supersized consumerism is irresistible

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -


Real estate

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

Lee Siegel

Lee Siegel

6 mins

9 Dec 2025 -

One year on

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

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

6 mins

8 Dec 2025 -


Food

Confessions of a failed restaurateur The Government sealed my fate

Richard Crampton Platt

Richard Crampton Platt

8 mins

19 Dec 2025 -

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 -

Weekend analysis

Islamic State is back Jungle jihadis threaten Southeast Asia

Alex Alfirraz Scheers

Alex Alfirraz Scheers

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -


Sex

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

Sarah Fletcher

Sarah Fletcher

8 mins

4 Dec 2025 -

Space

Will Trump destroy Nasa? Its moonshot is a fantasy

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin

8 mins

3 Dec 2025 -


Influencers

Now boys hate their bodies too Looksmaxxers are acting like teenage girls

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Money

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

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

4 mins

2 Dec 2025 -

weekend essay

Why the Brussels money-grab will fail A rebellion is underway in Europe

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

6 mins

20 Dec 2025 -


Drugs

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

Rosie Lewis

Rosie Lewis

5 mins

1 Dec 2025 -

Underworld

The truth about hitmen Britain’s gangland killers are incompetent

Max Daly

Max Daly

9 mins

28 Nov 2025 -


Protests

Zoomer politics is doomed to fail Only social animals produce durable change

Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco

6 mins

18 Dec 2025 -

Education

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

Joel Day

Joel Day

8 mins

27 Nov 2025 -

Weekend Spotlight

Has Kylie saved Christmas? She’s our festive unifier

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Dec 2025 -


Welfare State

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

Peter Apps

Peter Apps

6 mins

26 Nov 2025 -

Dispatch

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

Adam James Pollock

Adam James Pollock

6 mins

25 Nov 2025 -


School meals

What’s eating the dinner lady? You can’t feed kids austerity

Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor

10 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

Sex

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

Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov 2025 -

Morality

There’s no silver lining to FGM Cultural relativism is an ethical abyss

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

19 Dec 2025 -


music

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

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

8 mins

21 Nov 2025 -

The Ashes

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Tim Wigmore

Tim Wigmore

6 mins

20 Nov 2025 -


America First

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tragic triumph The social-media populist is the future

Emily Jashinsky

Emily Jashinsky

8 mins

17 Dec 2025 -

Books

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

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

Geopolitics

Donald Trump’s petulant foreign policy America is wilfully abandoning its friends

Jonathan Kirshner

Jonathan Kirshner

7 mins

18 Dec 2025 -


from the archive

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

Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

19 Nov 2025 -

Privacy

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

Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov 2025 -


dysfunction

Britain’s bargain-basement social care It’s a symbol of national decline

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

16 Dec 2025 -

Gentrification

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

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

10 mins

17 Nov 2025 -