What’s going on in Quebec? The French Canadian province has gone in an increasingly authoritarian direction

Anxiety: the hidden cause behind school absences Lockdown has had a detrimental impact on students' mental wellbeing

Kristina Murkett

Could Ukraine be today’s Schleswig-Holstein? Dominic Cummings has compared today's involvement to the 1864 Prussian invasion

Vaccination is the new dividing line in Republican politics Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are now on opposite ends of the fight

France’s answer to Partygate: honeymooning in Ibiza Macron's education minister changed the rules while on a holiday break

Thursday

20.01

The world’s poorest countries are facing an unprecedented debt crisis The pandemic has caused a collapse in tourist and service industry revenue

In defence of the Vagrancy Act of 1824 Its continued existence sends a message about certain forms of behaviour

Michael Mosbacher

What next after the Hong Kong Hamstercide? Zero Covid countries are reaching for increasingly desperate policies

Picador cancels poet Kate Clanchy’s books The author and her publisher have parted ways

How to solve the cycle of decline? Print more babies! Tech bros seem to believe that artificial wombs are better than the real thing

Mary Harrington

What does Labour’s ‘Make Brexit Work’ actually mean? Keir Starmer may finally be leaning into the 'Lexit' argument

How America turned against the Democrats Five charts illustrate how Joe Biden lost his advantage in one year

Wednesday

19.01

US Jewish-Muslim relations are better than anywhere in the world The hostage crisis in Texas was alarming because such events are so rare

Emmanuel Macron channels his inner Nietzsche The president's EU Parliament speech is one of the most ambitious yet

If Russia invades Ukraine, Germany must pay the price Pipeline politics have undermined Europe's strategic advantage over Russia

Boris Johnson was made and unmade by television The Prime Minister's career started and ended on screen

Germany’s Catholic party is back in parliament The Centre Party wants to be 'a serious conservative-social political force’

Cutting sick pay for the unvaccinated sets a dangerous precedent Covid is causing people to throw their principles out the window

Polly Mackenzie

Tuesday

18.01

Israeli vaccine advisor: “We have made mistakes” Professor Cyrille Cohen talks herd immunity and his pandemic regrets

The Czech Republic charts its own path on Covid The country is rolling back vaccine mandates

William Nattrass

Anti-Semitism is rife in the British-Pakistani community The Texas terrorist is just the latest example

Jake Wallis Simons

The best way to get ahead is now to lie We can't blame students for fabricating stories of hardship

Monday

17.01

California’s economy is weaker than it looks An over-reliance on a small number of companies won't work in the long term

Davos speaker: doctors are part of vaccine ‘conspiracies’ Annelies Wilder-Smith argued that medical schools contribute to vaccine disinformation

Political discrimination is fuelling a crisis of academic freedom A preponderance of Left-wing academics is drowning out other voices

Keir Starmer is taking the wrong lesson from partygate Labour should reflect on their complicity in our absurd Covid policies

Why the poor don’t move to richer cities The economic rewards of big city life have not been shared equally

Which countries have come down hardest on anti-vaxxers? We try to make sense of a mass of restrictions

Nicholas Harris

Saturday

15.01

Ricardo Bofill gave us a vision of an alternate modernity The architect's death is a reminder that there are other ways of living

Friday

14.01

What the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate ruling means It is a big blow for the Biden administration

No10 is already spinning the Sue Gray inquiry The PM’s supporters are already trying to re-frame the civil servant's role

What Jeffrey Epstein meant to Prince Andrew Was he a friend or another source of money?

The richest 0.00001% in America are getting richer Just 18 individuals held more than $50 billion in wealth last year

The progressive way to boost birth rates The UK population is forecast once again to decline — but it needn't happen

Thursday

13.01

Is statue toppling now a Right-wing activity too? The attack on the BBC's Eric Gill statue marks a new juncture in the culture wars

Is Britcoin a trojan horse for a social credit system? We should be wary of Government efforts to centralise crypto technology

Philip Pilkington

Online child sexual abuse images triple during lockdown A new report makes for grim reading

Kristina Murkett

The vasectomy ‘movement’ is a front for eugenics The self-gelding campaign has a dark motivation

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

12.01

Dear Democrats, please don’t resurrect Hillary Clinton She is not the 'change candidate' this party needs

Dr Steve James: I’d sacrifice my job over vaccine mandates The NHS consultant who challenged Sajid Javid explains all to Freddie Sayers

Israel considers a Ministry of Truth New proposals to tackle fake news lead in a dangerous direction

Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question The billionaire gave a weirdly content-free statement to Devi Sridhar

Omicron update: London followed Gauteng after all Britain's most prestigious scientists managed to deny the obvious

Pieter Streicher

Tuesday

11.01

The Downing Street party was almost certainly illegal Some attendees could be convicted

Lords amendment on single-sex prisons withdrawn Women are vulnerable in the prison estate, but many still doesn't understand this

The roots of Novak Djokovic’s vaccine hesitancy The athlete's worldview was built from a lifetime of politics and faith

Italy’s vaccine mandate is purely political Mario Draghi is trying to pin his Government's failures on unvaxxed Italians

Monday

10.01

Where now for Kazakhstan’s dictator emeritus? He thrived for three decades, but Nursultan Nazerbayev's time has finally run out

David Bowie at 75: why Germany will remember him He is a crucial part of Cold War history

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s The former Brexit chief chooses to ignore Britain's productivity crisis

Labour’s support for indy candidates in Scotland will backfire Triangulating with the SNP is a tactical disaster

Repeat after me: Covid doesn’t spread on surfaces Will we ever move beyond outdated advice?

Friday

07.01

Novak Djokovic is Covid’s ritual sacrifice His punishment reassures the faithful that their struggle was not in vain

Park MacDougald

How many years behind the US is Britain? A new system tell us the answer — economically, at least

Police campaign paints terrorists as victims The latest counter-terrorism PR effort is frankly bizarre

The manufacturing of consensus Bodies like Stonewall are falsely creating an imprimatur of civil demand

Mary Harrington

Multiple scenes of police brutality at anti-lockdown protests in Holland Grim footage shows protestors being bitten by dogs and hit by batons

Thursday

06.01

It’s Valérie Pécresse, not Zemmour, that Macron fears Unlike the populists, the centre-Right candidate could assemble a coalition

In defence of the Colston Four verdict A jury’s power to acquit without giving reasons is a bulwark against tyranny

JK Rowling is no antisemite For most British Jews she is a heroine

Stephen Pollard

No, what happened on Jan 6 was not a coup A large, noisy and colourful gathering cannot possibly constitute a coup d'état

Wednesday

05.01

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022 For the first time in years, Labour has plausible alternatives

Tesla faces mounting complaints even as share price grows All is not smooth going at the world's most valuable car company

Philip Pilkington

Another set of panicked headlines about incels The media is determined to identify a new danger to society

‘Mass formation psychosis’ gets a warning from Google Robert Malone's mentioned it on Joe Rogan — so the search engine acted

Andrew Orlowski

Tuesday

04.01

What have Scotland and Wales’ Covid rules achieved? Not a lot, suggests the latest data

Norman Mailer is reaping the anti-whiteness he sowed The writer only has himself to blame for the cancellation of his work

Bitcoin is not worth the energy Why use renewables and wasted energy to power Ponzi schemes?

Danish health chiefs eye Sweden’s low Omicron rate Cases and deaths are dramatically lower than neighbours

Macron challenges Germany for EU dominance Energy is the latest strain on the Franco-German alliance

Monday

03.01

A win for common sense at the Girls’ Day School Trust The body deferred to established law, not Stonewall law

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview The correspondents' annual predictions say more about them than anything else

Friday

31.12

2021: Year in review with Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year

Beijing casts a wary eye on the Metaverse China’s intelligence community ponders the risks of virtual reality

Thursday

30.12

The Online Right cancels one of its own Masculinity influencer Jack Murphy has been brutally banished for being a 'cuck'

Mary Harrington

A glimpse of better housing in South Tottenham A new development shows that building homes need not be a zero-sum game

Nicholas Boys Smith

Is Liz Truss set to be the new Alec Douglas-Home? Ideas about the Foreign Secretary taking over are eerily reminiscent

Wednesday

29.12

Was this the week England stopped worrying about Covid? Pundits and the public are turning against restrictions

Omicron in South Africa: even milder than expected Every number has come in under the projection

Pieter Streicher

Tuesday

28.12

The Covid wars ruined Germany’s Christmas My home country is being pulled into familiar conflicts

If Jeremy Hunt is such an expert on the NHS, why didn’t he fix it? The former health secretary wasted his time in charge

Monday

27.12

Banning online trolls from football is an empty gesture A new anti-racism policy won't fix anything

Andrew Orlowski