March 9, 2020 - 9:22am
We often get requests to allow comments beneath our articles and blogposts, so from today we’re trialling it.
All you need to do is join (click HERE) and then you can let us and fellow readers know what you think about the ideas in the articles.
For now it’s only available on Posts (not full length articles) and we’ll see how it goes. Happy commenting!
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SubscribeI have been laughing like a drain about Trevor Philipps being suspended by those moral-high-grounders the Labour Party, for being racist.
All he did was say that Muslims are different, which Muslims themselves have been saying themselves for centuries. Indeed, so are Catholics different, and many shades of Protestants. Hey, I too am different too – who is going to argue with that ?
Find it hard to understand why comments are only being allowed on Posts and not (the generally much more interesting) full length articles. Still, any opportunity to feed back to you is welcome, if long overdue.
Hi David, just trying it out on posts to see how it goes. If there’s demand and there’s interesting discussion we’ll open it up to full length pieces too…
Hope that works out, as David is right– posts reacting to ideas in the articles would make the most of a readership already distinguished by interest in ‘un-herdlike’ commentary. Probably very time consuming, but more like the genuine interchange this site seems to have envisioned when it was started.
Ha, I’m first!
I’m 2nd….whoop whoop
I’m glad to have found this very promising site. You have some top writers!
I’m very excited about this initiative. I comment regularly on only one other website – ft.com. But it’s dominated by the usual liberal knowledge workers in denial about the political tectonic plates that are shifting around them.
I enjoy it anyway, but I admit I am usually dragged down into low-level trolling rather than engaging in substantive and illuminating discussion.
Unherd has simply the best contributors on the internet. Goodwin, Gray, Goodhart and the peerless Helen Thompson combine brilliant writing with a political insight simply not available elsewhere (I give a pass to the New Statesman, but only because Gray and Thompson also write there as their “house contrarians”).
All other coverage seems trite and lightweight. Unherd and its contributors are a beacon of sense in a world gone mad.