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10/12/2021 - 11:43am

A $1 trillion platinum coin won’t fix America’s problems It is peak late-stage capitalism

Making misogyny a hate crime is pure window-dressing What would actually help would be to make our streets safe

Mary Harrington

Monday, October 11

What Thomas Cromwell taught us about ambition The chief minister realised too late that careerism would lead to his undoing

Elizabeth Oldfield

Boris must smash the Grey Wall The Conservatives are in thrall to Baby Boomers — it has to change

When will the Left stop telling itself fairy tales? Contrary to claims made in The Guardian, the Tories won fair and square

The retreat of the West is a disaster The French intellectual on Afghanistan, Brexit and Éric Zemmour

Feminist “dinosaurs” are getting organised Protestors outside the Labour Party HQ were embracing David Lammy's label

Josephine Bartosch

There is less pressure to have children than ever before Certain activists are pretending that we're still in the 1950s

Saturday, October 9

Why I trust Lateral Flow Tests When I had Covid, they were remarkably accurate

Friday, October 8

Even Elon Musk is leaving California behind Tesla's departure to Texas is another sign of the blue state's decline

Ireland was better off with Donald Trump Joe Biden is the chief reason for my country's corporate tax hike

The EU is alienating Polish conservatives The judicial reform ruling has driven a wedge between Brussels and Poland

Dave Chappelle is winning the culture wars His closing act has riled up all the right people

The feminist case against vaccine mandates Women should have a right to choose

Thursday, October 7

Found in El Paso: the border wall Biden is paying not to build Acres of wall units are now waiting for cranes that will never come

Olaf Scholz almost certain to become Chancellor Negotiations in Germany have proceeded faster than expected

The media is wrong: Italian populism will be back Even the anti-establishment parties are now seen as too mainstream

Éric Zemmour: I’m encouraged by the latest polls The French polemicist is inching closer to Emmanuel Macron

PCRs are not as reliable as you might think Government policy on testing is worryingly misleading

Wednesday, October 6

Can India contain the Taliban? Historically, it has led the resistance — but this time could be different

The YMCA shows the way to fight a culture war A humble pamphlet at the Tory conference contains a winning formula

The truth about the St Andrews bias test I was made to take the diversity module — it's both tokenistic and patronising

Do we discriminate against boring people? This may be one form of prejudice that we're all overlooking

Tuesday, October 5

Debate: are Conservatives doomed? Peter Hitchens, Ed West, Miriam Cates and Matthew Goodwin joined UnHerd in Manchester

The real supply chain crisis is all at sea The biggest logistics problem is the disruption of the global shipping industry

What happened to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks? The site was outpaced by the very democratising technology that fanned its sails

Michael Gove channels his inner Disraeli Levelling up means everything and nothing — and that's the point

Monday, October 4

A gay man on Playboy fails to smash any stereotypes Bretman Rock's cover feature is still distinctly feminine

Mary Harrington

Bernard Tapie: a most un-French billionaire The disgraced Marseille public figure lived multiple lives and told multiple lies

Chris Loder is right: bring back the milkman! Supply chain disruption could benefit the UK in the long run

Ben Houchen understands ‘Johnsonism’ better than Boris He reminded me of a cross between Michael Heseltine and Leon Trotsky

St Andrews reverts to 16th Century Calvinism Instead of original sin, students now have to acknowledge 'personal guilt'

Kristina Murkett