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UnHerd picks: Substacks of the month Featuring: hygiene theatre, Tartaria, prison abolitionists, and Sally Rooney

Friday, October 1

Sack Cressida Dick Someone must pay the consequences for the Met's failures

Why can’t we all live in Disneyland? Theme park architecture is beautiful — city planners should take note

New guidance recognises biological sex in sport The Sports Councils Equality Group came out in defence of women-only sport

Will the Taliban face resistance? Watch Tajikistan World powers are vying for influence in this small Asian country

Thursday, September 30

BBC News reports a non-existent religious revival A poll suggested a boom in religiosity among young people — but it's not true

Robots are teaching us how humans think AI is revealing how our own brains work

Listen to Elon Musk, not Keir Starmer The Tesla founder doesn't hide behind bland PR statements

Tech media has turned anti-tech The reaction to the Metaverse is more revealing than the concept itself

Wednesday, September 29

Food hack or fetish? TikTok’s new way to shock When all the taboos are broken, creators are inventing new kinks

What if Karl Marx had never lived? One author argues that the world and our understanding of it would have benefited

Academics try to cancel Peter Singer (again) His critics called his views are “dehumanising and dangerous”

Finally, a good day for General Milley The top military man faced a grilling — and survived

Pain is not a justification for assisted dying The case of Alta Fixsler strikes at the heart of debates around life and death

Tuesday, September 28

Another lockdown would hurt the NHS More restrictions will exacerbate our health service's woes

Penalising private schools will help no one Labour's latest policy announcement will hurt the very children it aims to help

Kristina Murkett

The Left’s case against vaccine passports A group of senior Labour figures offers an animated defence of civil liberties

Only nuclear can save us now It is vital for security and environmental reasons

Monday, September 27

There’s nothing inclusive about erasing women ‘Bodies with vaginas’ is a deeply creepy and dehumanising substitute

Mary Harrington

Dream all you like, but there is no centre-Left revival The SPD's victory in Germany was, in truth, a bit of a fluke

Thank Britain for the golden age of television Shows like 'The Sopranos' revolutionised US TV — but the UK invented it

Angela Merkel hasn’t left the building Extended coalition talks could leave Mutti in place as a lame-duck chancellor

Havana Syndrome is (obviously) a hoax We're living in the dumbest spy novel ever

Sunday, September 26

Louise Leach: my journey from secular to Orthodox The former singer tells her story to Freddie Sayers — and it's the opposite to the one you'll see on Netflix

Friday, September 24

Hunter Biden’s $500,000 artwork is not the real scandal The art market is a racket — his exhibitions are drawing attention to that

Is Gordon Brown the new Brendan O’Neill? The former PM has developed a penchant for sounding off on trending topics

Daniel Foote: yet another US diplomat gone native The resignation of the special envoy to Haiti over expulsion of migrants is typical

Labour’s support for single-sex spaces is too little, too late It is no longer the party for women that it used to be

Thursday, September 23

Keir Starmer strikes a 12,000 word long pose His essay reads like a highlights reel of focus-grouped Blairite platitudes

Anders Tegnell: Sweden won the argument on Covid The state epidemiologist told Freddie Sayers he was right on the key questions

On climate change, Boris Johnson is no Margaret Thatcher The Prime Minister's speech to the UN was an exercise in bluster

If you have a cough, what are the odds it’s Covid? Coronavirus symptoms overlap heavily with those of colds and flu