Is this the end of Europe’s asylum system? The EU has ruled that it will suspend access for at least six months

The vaccine programme won’t stop inflation The Federal Reserve can't keep using Covid as an excuse

Philip Pilkington

The new ingredient in the dating algorithm: human beings It turns out that people are a useful component in matchmaking

Twitter after Jack Dorsey takes a censorious turn The company's privacy update is open to abuse

Park MacDougald

Covid panic is hurting African countries once again The bias towards shutting borders is not as wise as people think

Tuesday

30.11

UnHerd picks: November’s best Substacks Featuring: the Beatles, the end of wokeness, and chronic illnesses

Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars Freddie Sayers spoke to the writer and philosopher about the widening divide

What will masks in schools actually achieve? The lack of logic behind the Government's new Covid guidance is infuriating

Kristina Murkett

Jack Dorsey’s resignation is bad news for free speech The Twitter founder was a liberal on matters of freedom of expression

At last! Labour finally has a recognisable shadow cabinet Until yesterday's reshuffle Keir Starmer appointed political pygmies

Monday

29.11

We may never know the full truth about the Axum massacre What happened on a 24-hour killing spree in Tigray last year remains unclear

Left and Right unite against M&S building plans The planned demolition of Orchard House has angered traditionalists and environmentalists

Wanted: firefighters that can rescue people from fires The Fire Service's recruitment policy is no longer based on efficacy alone

Why young Kurds are migrating to Europe This is a crisis built on aspiration, not desperation

Daniel Hardaker

Sunday

28.11

Stephen Sondheim, unlikely giant of musical theatre He was Broadway's poet of loneliness, alienation, and failure

Saturday

27.11

Why the change to masking rules will make people angry Introducing arbitrary rules that won't be effective has a cost

Friday

26.11

Vice News has an incel problem Fearmongering will only push the community further underground

Vladimir Putin may roll the dice on Ukraine America's commitment to defending the country is very uncertain

Dr Who doesn’t make young men commit crime Politicians should stop taking pop culture so seriously

Why George Floyd was turned into performance art The internet has radically re-shaped how we consume and create

Mary Harrington

Macron’s predatory deal with Draghi France is exploiting the newly signed Quirinale Treaty for its own ends

Thursday

25.11

Has the UK reached herd immunity? Professor Neil Ferguson believes we are almost there

French vaccine rule triggers violent protests in Guadeloupe Mandatory vaccination for emergency workers has led to island-wide demonstrations

Three big decisions Boris got right on Covid The PM made some tough but ultimately correct calls

Germany’s new Government surrenders to identity politics Olaf Scholz's cabinet has laid out an extremely progressive agenda

Wednesday

24.11

The melancholy decline of the semicolon Researchers found that it is becoming rarer in British fiction

Is Britain on track for a rail renaissance? The re-opening of Okehampton in Devon sets a hopeful precedent

Crypto books can bypass woke publishers A politicised industry has opened up a space for Internet self-starters

Jordan Peterson heals old wounds with Cambridge return Two years after he was cancelled, the psychologist spoke at the university

Who is Éric Zemmour? We investigate the Right-wing polemicist running for the French presidency

Tuesday

23.11

Acting dynasties are ruining TV Casting for The Crown reminds us that success is born, not earned

A new player in the culture war: the Islamo-Right Antipathy for globalism and liberalism has drawn two disparate sides together

The sinister stunt against JK Rowling The narcissistic arrogance of certain trans activists is staggering

Male teachers labelled ‘paedos’ on TikTok The online platform has been a breeding ground for male abuse by students

Kristina Murkett

Memo to economists: inflation was caused by lockdown Why are the experts in denial about the obvious?

Philip Pilkington

Monday

22.11

Benenden’s head is wrong on wokeness The girls' school head is the latest actor in the culture wars

Margaret Thatcher’s fall is a warning for Boris Johnson The Iron lady's downfall came faster than she had thought possible

Which way will Germany’s new chancellor go on defence? Rising tensions in Europe will require its largest economy to arm itself

What does waning immunity mean for the long term? Reaching endemic equilibrium with Covid will have some bumps along the way

Friday

19.11

Brigitte Macron says ‘non merci’ to gender neutral pronouns Linguists fear 'le wokism' is set to destroy the language of love

Éric Zemmour vs Stéphane Bern: a battle over the soul of France Despite their common history, these men have different visions for their country

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

The Erdogan era approaches the endgame Turks are turning against the president — but would he leave without a fight?

Our ritual response to Islamist terror Why is the first step always to genuflect before the Muslim community?

Thursday

18.11

Green shoots of common sense at the New York Times Is the Gray Lady aiming to produce more balanced content?

The metaverse is doomed to fail We may be addicted to electronics, but not when they are all-consuming

Who will replace Kamala Harris in 2024? At 28% approval, it’s been an astonishingly bad 2021 for the new vice president

Wednesday

17.11

It’s high time the Government takes psychedelics seriously As a veteran recovering from PTSD, it has helped me immeasurably

Rivian’s order book hints at a bleak green future The company seems to think that cars will become a luxury

Mary Harrington

Is identity politics undermining science? New research illustrates how funding has become politicised

A united Ireland… within the United Kingdom? A humble Kilkenny farmer has an ambitious vision

Inside the Austrian lockdown We visit Vienna to explore the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated

Tuesday

16.11

All eyes on Hungary’s fuel price provocation Extraordinary interventions by Viktor Orbán have unsettled member states

Alexander Faludy

The UK’s ‘rampdown’ plan won’t save us from inflation The economic rescue package is a good start but it is still not enough

Philip Pilkington

Yes, there is an educational divide over ‘wokeness’ There is a political element too

Jeff Bezos’s spaced-out vision for the human race The Amazon founder thinks a trillion people could live in the Solar System

Monday

15.11

Angela Merkel is too soft on Russia The Belarusian crisis shows that Putin's interests are not aligned with Germany’s

Will Éric Zemmour’s Bataclan stunt backfire? The polemicist has been accused of capitalising on the 2015 terror attacks

What Durham University doesn’t understand about sex work The student union can't make an inherently dangerous industry 'more safe'

Kristina Murkett

Inside Austria’s lockdown for the unvaccinated I've been speaking to people on the street to find out what they think

American voters prefer populism to wokeness Especially if they're working class

FW de Klerk: a great South African let down by the ANC He and Nelson Mandela held the country together after apartheid was lifted

Brian Pottinger

Friday

12.11

Travis Scott’s therapy app won’t heal your trauma After the Astroworld crush the last thing people need is BetterHelp

Instagram censorship will only help the conspiracies The medical group Cochrane has been shadow-banned by Instagram

Increasing MPs salaries is a good bet If it stands a chance of increasing the quality of candidates, what is there to lose?

Thursday

11.11

Asra Nomani: Mama Bears are the future of American politics How one parent-protester took on Critical Race Theory and won

The legacy of Adam Boulton The broadcaster pioneered rolling news — but are we the wiser for it?

Sorry, but Google is not the GDR Internet privacy activists have been captured by their own paranoia

Andrew Orlowski

The New York Times’ fake ‘Brexit brain drain’ Will the Grey Lady ever get its facts right about the UK?

Wednesday

10.11

The BBC finally dumps Stonewall The charity's capture of national institutions is finally being challenged

Young people turn against Critical Race Theory in Virginia The cohort is less Left-wing than older millennials are

Being ‘LGBT’ has become cosplay for millennials Sexual identity has become a jamboree of naff posing

San Francisco is living the neo-Feudal dream Its super-elites, serf class and biosecurity state are a pointer of things to come

Mary Harrington

Is Austin the global free speech capital? The Texas city is becoming a home for eccentrics and dissenters

Tuesday

09.11

The Franco-British fish war is far from over Reports in the Daily Mail are misleading

Polish border is the new Fortress Europe in action The border squabble with Belarus shows how far the EU has moved since 2015

Will Viktor Orbán’s Balkan gamble pay off? The Hungarian PM is interfering in Bosnia's affairs

Alexander Faludy

Soviet GP plan takes ‘Levelling Up’ to new lows Regional inequality can't be fixed with sloganeering

Universities — not the Government — should cover tuition fee losses A new report argues that they should bear the cost

Kristina Murkett

Monday

08.11

Dr Raghib Ali: No UK lockdown this Christmas The doctor tells Freddie Sayers that the UK's Covid outlook isn't so bad

There’s nothing new about selling honours Savvy countries will always find a way of turning corruption into tax

Could a revived SDP break through? A large and diverse conference suggests that the Party is on the up

Therapists must be allowed to question gender identity The plan to ban "conversion therapy" is being too broadly defined