weekend essay

Starmer versus the Blob Weak politicians need a scapegoat

Lawrence Newport

Lawrence Newport

6 mins

25 Apr 2026 - 12:20am

weekend culture

Has Michael Jackson been forgiven?

Matt Feeney

8 mins

25 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Review

Russell Brand: spray-on Christian

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


weekend culture

Has Michael Jackson been forgiven? The divide may be racial

Matt Feeney

8 mins

25 Apr 2026 - 12:10am


Review

Russell Brand: spray-on Christian He still worships himself

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Interview

Rowan Williams: The diabolical is everywhere

Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers

10 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


gender

Why young women hate men The femosphere has hardened their hearts

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

The Blob

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

Josiah Gogarty

Josiah Gogarty

7 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Middle East

A new Iraq war is coming Tehran is rallying its proxies

Matt Broomfield

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

24 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

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


Apple

Tim Cook’s rotten Apple Complacency can be deadly

Patrick McGee

Patrick McGee

4 mins

21 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Donald Trump

Welcome to the age of total hate Pulling back from the brink is possible 

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

6 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Congress

Meet Chicago’s AOC 2.0 She offers punk rock instead of politics

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

7 mins

4 Mar 2026 - 12:10am

Racism

Why I used the N-word in bed  Black men spurn BLM pieties for ‘race play’

Brennan Vickery

Brennan Vickery

7 mins

23 Feb 2026 - 12:00am

Nationalism

Why Labour lost Wales Devolution has fed the dragon

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

7 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


The Blob

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

Josiah Gogarty

Josiah Gogarty

7 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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

Middle East

A new Iraq war is coming Tehran is rallying its proxies

Matt Broomfield

Matt Broomfield

6 mins

24 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


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

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

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
Gilded Age

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

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

21 Apr 2026 - 12:04am


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

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


inequality

How AI will change society Technology can level the playing field

Glenn Loury

Glenn Loury

5 mins

21 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Review

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

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

6 mins

23 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

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

iran war

Welcome to the age of uncertainty Geopolitical forecasts are for losers

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

20 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Review

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

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda

5 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Review

In defence of Lena Dunham She understands your body horror

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

6 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Climate Change

The Paris Agreement was a fantasy Climate catastrophism has backfired

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

7 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

War

The Pope versus the President Conservative Catholics face a choice

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

10 mins

16 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Weekend Dispatch

Is Bulgaria Putin’s next target? He could use energy as a weapon

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

10 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:25am


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

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


Scandal

Starmer’s broken promise The rules remain optional

Jenny McCartney

Jenny McCartney

6 mins

22 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Gambling

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

John Masko

John Masko

8 mins

13 Apr 2026 - 12:01am

Weekend Analysis

Starmer’s weaponised incompetence Labour isn’t working — it’s shirking responsibility

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

5 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:20am


Literature

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

David Keenan

5 mins

10 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Dispatch

Inside Charleston’s craft renaissance Young artisans are defying AI

Farahn Morgan

Farahn Morgan

8 mins

9 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Investigation

Is Belgium a narco-state? Cocaine gangsterism has infected Europe

Max Daly and Mitchell Prothero

Max Daly and Mitchell Prothero

8 mins

21 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

Weekend Essay

Why the US economy beats Europe Big Business is good, actually

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

18 Apr 2026 - 12:15am


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

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


Blockade

How shipowners are getting rich off Hormuz They have the world over a barrel

Rose George

Rose George

4 mins

20 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

Ethics

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

Justin Lee

Justin Lee

5 mins

2 Apr 2026 - 12:04am

Porn

Spare me Labour’s summer of sex Vibrators can’t teach consent

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:03am


Space

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

Gerard DeGroot

Gerard DeGroot

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am

Protests

How Trump saved the Left His hubris reawakened the opposition

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

1 Apr 2026 - 12:00am


Crank Right

Behind the ‘disappearing scientists’ hysteria The GOP trades logic for conspiracy theories

Richard Hanania

Richard Hanania

6 mins

20 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

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

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


Budapest

What next for Europe’s postliberals? JD Vance will Americanise their cause

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:02am

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

War

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

Amir Tibon

Amir Tibon

7 mins

25 Mar 2026 - 12:00am


The Left

Graham Platner, gentry liberal The Maine progressive struggles with workers

James Billot

James Billot

5 mins

24 Mar 2026 - 12:00am

Class

How Salford made modern Britain The dirty old town birthed generations of artists

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Apr 2026 - 12:01am


Atlanticism

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

Sophie Heawood

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

23 Mar 2026 - 12:00am