Hibatullah Akhundzada. Credit: Vimeo.

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Has the Taliban’s Supreme Leader come back from the dead? Nobody really knows if Hibatullah Akhundzada is alive or not

UnHerd picks: October’s best Substacks Featuring Dr Fauci, cancellations, anti-natalism, and extreme weather

Robinhood: the latest pseudo revolutionary of finance The embattled trading platform was never going to disrupt the powers that be

Friday, October 29

When will state-sponsored clock-twiddling end? When the clocks go back this weekend, they should stay there

Americans turn against Black Lives Matter A majority of adults now oppose the movement

How hard will America squeeze its billionaires? The rich are getting richer — but a political backlash is brewing

Evergrande will not cause a 2008-style crisis in China This housing bubble has different characteristics from those in the West

Philip Pilkington

Inside Insulate Britain We embedded in a cell's campaign of disobedience

Thursday, October 28

Why children should be taught original sin Katharine Birbalsingh shouldn't be attacked for stating the obvious

Kathleen Stock deserved better The professor has now left Sussex University — how did it come to this?

Modernism’s latest victim: Angers Cathedral The new extension to the French masterpiece tries but falls short

The Anglo-French fish war of 2021 has begun Do not underestimate the level of pettiness we are about to encounter

Red tape will cause more Covid deaths Why can't western countries cooperate more on vaccines?

The dark side of Tesla’s $1 trillion dollar milestone Elon Musk is driving us into an era of mass delusion

Wednesday, October 27

A tax-cutting budget without tax cuts Rishi Sunak played a trick at the despatch box

Steven Pinker: how rational are you really? The professor spoke about his new book at an UnHerd members event

Is the BBC finally standing up to gender ideologues? A new report suggests that Auntie is making small steps in the right direction

Who’s behind Frances Haugen? The campaign against Facebook has a synthetic quality to it

Andrew Orlowski

Tuesday, October 26

Ash Sarkar: Left and Right must unite against tech censorship Freddie Sayers spoke to the Novara editor about her channel's disappearance from YouTube

Viktor Orbán finally has a use for Marine le Pen The Hungarian Premier's meeting with the French populist is self-interested

Alexander Faludy

Don’t let the SNP exploit COP26 The Party is trying to undermine a UK-wide project

Why Jack Dorsey is predicting hyperinflation For the Twitter CEO it's all about Bitcoin

Monday, October 25

Barack Obama gives up on a united America The former president has given up any pretence of a post-partisan USA

Globalisation has ruined Hollywood These days it's nothing but sequels and movie ‘franchises’

Judith Butler: neoliberalism’s accidental cheerleader The theorist can't see that a world without boundaries is profoundly un-feminist

Mary Harrington

Why are liberals blind to vaccine passport discrimination? They are backing a plainly illiberal policy that will deepen racial division

Friday, October 22

The latest advocates for magic mushrooms? High Tories Crispin Blunt urged the PM to look into their exciting potential

Does Germany have a mercenary problem? Private armies have a long and undistinguished history in the country

Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports? The former PM should find a new pet project

Madeleine Stone

Le Woke has arrived at French newsrooms Intergenerational wars are erupting inside France's liberal bastions

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday, October 21

Dominic Cummings’s advice to Labour: sack Starmer The former chief advisor to Boris Johnson details how Labour can win in 2024

Why the West should keep buying cheap crap It isn't that bad for the environment and it benefits poorer countries