The Taliban mocking the Iwo Jima flag raising

08/24/2021 - 8:00am

The Taliban’s meme war The hardline Islamic group is no stranger to online propaganda

Monday, August 23

Germany’s ‘black zero’ fetish hurts the rest of Europe The CDU's obsession with a balanced budget is a scam

Why Facebook hid its ‘Transparency Report’ The company is embarrassed by the most popular shared content on its site

The liberal safari into inceldom has only just begun Meme-making anthropologists massively misunderstand online subcultures

Mary Harrington

David Graeber’s last essay The anarchist intellectual had one final message for the post-pandemic world

Friday, August 20

Joe Biden is stealing Republican thunder Trump campaigned on ending forever wars — Biden actually ended one

OnlyFans is nothing without porn Stopping its creators from making explicit content will be the end of the site

How feminism failed in Afghanistan The US intervention tried to do too much, too soon

What’s left at Current Affairs magazine? Nathan J. Robinson's hypocrisy sums up the emptiness of American Leftism

Al Qaeda may flourish again The fall of Afghanistan presents new opportunities for the terrorist group

Thursday, August 19

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: on refugees we must learn from 2015 The discussion about numbers of Afghan refugees is eerily reminiscent of 2015

Theresa May’s ‘Global Britain’ is a mirage The idea will be a fantasy until the Armed Forces are properly funded

Jonathon Kitson

TikTok’s bizarre new craze: reporting the news The app is leading journalism in a strange new direction

Kristina Murkett

The debate on Afghanistan exposed a delusional Parliament MPs seem to think Britain has a real role to play in this crisis — they're wrong

Wednesday, August 18

Clarissa Ward in Kabul: what the Taliban are really like CNN's international correspondent talks exclusively to UnHerd from Afghanistan

Test Match Special is no longer the sound of summer Beloved old eccentrics are being replaced with bland reporters

What Gordon Brown misses about Covid Colonialism People in Africa don't particularly want to get vaccinated

It’s impossible to stop politicians lying A petition is seeking to ban untruths from the House of Commons — it will fail

Could withdrawal from Afghanistan strengthen American power? Throughout history, great empires have known when to cut their losses

Tuesday, August 17

What’s gone wrong with London architecture? The capital has never looked worse than it does today

Don’t let your beliefs become your identity A clumsy statement by Yanis Varoufakis reveals the dangers of tribalism

How high fertility rates drove Afghanistan’s tragedy State stability can depend on how many young men are in a population

Joe Biden on Afghanistan, in his own words The President has been in favour of withdrawal for years

Monday, August 16

Stop pretending that university equals opportunity The debate about student numbers is stuck in a bygone era

‘Nature’ magazine has lost its way The journal's embrace of social justice activism is shredding its reputation

Rory Stewart: we need to take ‘many many millions’ of Afghan refugees The former Tory MP has been taking the debate in a new direction

Italy has become an ECB dependency Brussels is effectively in control of Draghi's government

Friday, August 13

David Shor: College liberals have hijacked the Democratic party Freddie Sayers spoke to the political strategist about the failings of the Left

The BBC erases homosexuality with the stroke of a pen Updated guidelines on gender and sex deny the reality of biological sex

Why the Berlin Wall lives on in German minds Sixty years on, politicians have made East-West divisions worse

Thursday, August 12

What the ‘Save the Parish’ campaign doesn’t understand Justin Welby's plans are better than critics claim

The Greens choose trans over trees The party's relentless focus on identity issues will come at an electoral cost