NASA’s religious quest for UFOs The space agency is channelling ancient human desires

Friday

05.11

There is nothing disruptive about the Metaverse The plan is for a smooth transition, entrenching the existing powers

Conservatives need a culture war Blitzkrieg The Right cannot embroil itself in an endless conflict — victory must be swift

The NHS vaccine mandates aren’t what they seem The Government is — once again — trying to nudge us

Fear is gripping Addis Ababa The spectre of full-blown civil war now looms in Ethiopia

Thursday

04.11

How trans activists reacted to Kathleen Stock’s resignation Various outlets expressed horror, and even a sense of growing danger

Boris was wrong to U-turn on Owen Paterson The so-called sleaze affair is nothing compared to previous scandals

Vaccine mandates are a body blow to a faltering economy The impact is far worse than foreseen, and the timing is terrible

Philip Pilkington

The Lib Dems are deluded on the environment Nuclear is the only way they could achieve their ambitious climate goals

Wednesday

03.11

Is Christopher Rufo a Right-wing Leninist? A new movement emerges at the National Conservatism conference

Mary Harrington

Critical Race Theory blows it for Democrats in Virginia A shocking victory for the Republicans came from battles over education

Insulate Britain founder’s extremist manifesto Roger Hallam argues that action needs to be fearless and illegal

Banning ‘complex language’ from exams won’t help my students The latest round of dumbing down exams is cynical and depressing

Kristina Murkett

Tuesday

02.11

Imprisoning Twitter trolls is a dangerous game It may feel morally righteous, but it's entirely subjective

Bjorn Lomborg: 7 myths about climate change The Danish academic challenges common misconceptions

Young people turn against Joe Biden Support among 18-24 year olds has plummeted, spelling trouble for 2024

Is Olaf Scholz anything more than a mini Merkel? The pair's weirdly harmonious relationship was on full display in Rome

A war on universities won’t help free speech We need to fix these institutions, not destroy them

Monday

01.11

Nobody can reform the National Trust The charity has become the most conservative force in England

Has the Taliban’s Supreme Leader come back from the dead? Nobody really knows if Hibatullah Akhundzada is alive or not

UnHerd picks: October’s best Substacks Featuring Dr Fauci, cancellations, anti-natalism, and extreme weather

Robinhood: the latest pseudo revolutionary of finance The embattled trading platform was never going to disrupt the powers that be

Friday

29.10

When will state-sponsored clock-twiddling end? When the clocks go back this weekend, they should stay there

Americans turn against Black Lives Matter A majority of adults now oppose the movement

How hard will America squeeze its billionaires? The rich are getting richer — but a political backlash is brewing

Evergrande will not cause a 2008-style crisis in China This housing bubble has different characteristics from those in the West

Philip Pilkington

Inside Insulate Britain We embedded in a cell's campaign of disobedience

Thursday

28.10

Why children should be taught original sin Katharine Birbalsingh shouldn't be attacked for stating the obvious

Kathleen Stock deserved better The professor has now left Sussex University — how did it come to this?

Modernism’s latest victim: Angers Cathedral The new extension to the French masterpiece tries but falls short

The Anglo-French fish war of 2021 has begun Do not underestimate the level of pettiness we are about to encounter

Red tape will cause more Covid deaths Why can't western countries cooperate more on vaccines?

The dark side of Tesla’s $1 trillion dollar milestone Elon Musk is driving us into an era of mass delusion

Wednesday

27.10

A tax-cutting budget without tax cuts Rishi Sunak played a trick at the despatch box

Steven Pinker: how rational are you really? The professor spoke about his new book at an UnHerd members event

Is the BBC finally standing up to gender ideologues? A new report suggests that Auntie is making small steps in the right direction

Who’s behind Frances Haugen? The campaign against Facebook has a synthetic quality to it

Andrew Orlowski

Tuesday

26.10

Ash Sarkar: Left and Right must unite against tech censorship Freddie Sayers spoke to the Novara editor about her channel's disappearance from YouTube

Viktor Orbán finally has a use for Marine le Pen The Hungarian Premier's meeting with the French populist is self-interested

Alexander Faludy

Don’t let the SNP exploit COP26 The Party is trying to undermine a UK-wide project

Why Jack Dorsey is predicting hyperinflation For the Twitter CEO it's all about Bitcoin

Monday

25.10

Barack Obama gives up on a united America The former president has given up any pretence of a post-partisan USA

Globalisation has ruined Hollywood These days it's nothing but sequels and movie ‘franchises’

Judith Butler: neoliberalism’s accidental cheerleader The theorist can't see that a world without boundaries is profoundly un-feminist

Mary Harrington

Why are liberals blind to vaccine passport discrimination? They are backing a plainly illiberal policy that will deepen racial division

Friday

22.10

The latest advocates for magic mushrooms? High Tories Crispin Blunt urged the PM to look into their exciting potential

Does Germany have a mercenary problem? Private armies have a long and undistinguished history in the country

Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports? The former PM should find a new pet project

Madeleine Stone

Le Woke has arrived at French newsrooms Intergenerational wars are erupting inside France's liberal bastions

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday

21.10

Dominic Cummings’s advice to Labour: sack Starmer The former chief advisor to Boris Johnson details how Labour can win in 2024

Why the West should keep buying cheap crap It isn't that bad for the environment and it benefits poorer countries

The Assisted Dying bill is based on shaky evidence Baroness Meacher’s proposed 'safeguards' are unsafe and unwise

Sajid is right: we don’t need more restrictions Nothing in the data suggests that it's time for 'Plan B'

Watch out Macron: the Gilet Jaunes are back It may not be Éric Zemmour that the French president has to worry about

Wednesday

20.10

Open borders activists are undermining Joe Biden They don't care if the Democrats lose the midterms, or even the Presidency

The synthetic drugs destroying America Deaths are exploding across all ethnic groups and around the country

University anti-spike boycotts put the onus on women These campaigns might raise awareness, but they are still only symbolic

Kristina Murkett

Welcome to Team TERF, Margaret Atwood The writer seems to have accepted the implications of her worldview

Mary Harrington

It’s a demand problem, not a supply chain crisis The pinch is global, and the cause is misunderstood

Tuesday

19.10

Wokeness is giving cover to bullies Children are using social justice rhetoric to pick on others

Come to Poland, Jeremy Clarkson! The Top Gear presenter is loved here more than anywhere else

The UK is letting its army wither A strong Union needs a strong Armed Forces

Monday

18.10

Colin Powell: a would-be President ruined by Iraq He was once described as 'a modern George Washington'

Why the Internet needs anons The tragic murder of an MP should not be used to curtail civil liberties

Viktor Orbán is about to face his biggest challenge yet Hungary's opposition parties may have found a winner in Péter Márki-Zay

Alexander Faludy

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero They are turning attention away from the causes of the energy crisis

Anger and resignation at Green Pass protests in Italy Protestors at this weekend's demonstrations in Milan had little hope

Social mobility, Alexander Hamilton style The American founding father shows us how to make society more equal

Saturday

16.10

The misogyny of trans activists In Portsmouth they behaved like they wanted a war, not dialogue

Friday

15.10

Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall documentary is unmissable The charity was never impartial

The 100 year old Nazi standing trial in Germany It is hard to watch, but justice is being pursued 76 years later

UnHerd picks: The week’s best Substacks Featuring: Salman Rushdie, Civil Rights law, and advice from Dominic Cummings

Thursday

14.10

Yes, Edmund Burke is British The philosopher was British — something that infuriates Remainers

A message to Matt Hancock: Africa doesn’t want you The last thing this continent needs is another Covid messiah

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Prince William is wrong: let Bezos go to space! The $7 billion invested in Blue Origin is money well spent

Eastern European populism isn’t going anywhere yet The Czech Prime Minister was ousted this week — but Orbán is safe for now

The question the Covid report failed to answer What is most revealing about the new study is what it leaves out

Wednesday

13.10

Is Boris spending like a drunken sailor? Beyond Covid, there have been big shifts in Government spending

Stop exploiting women’s fears There's a whole industry around keeping us 'safe'

Raquel Rosario Sánchez

Andrew Yang: already the most interesting 2024 candidate The odds are stacked against him, but his new party deserves attention

Women don’t need ‘fertility seminars’ Dystopian warnings about declining egg quality help no one

Kristina Murkett

Tuesday

12.10

Macron is swapping arrogance for football The President thinks sport is the way to reach voters alienated by his aloof style