The moral bankruptcy of cancel culture The NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones makes a misguided and ahistorical claim

Become a member of UnHerd! We're excited to be moving into the next phase

Freddie Sayers & Sally Chatterton

Another career sacrificed on the altar of progressive opinion James Moore's transgression? Upsetting some people on social media

One last heave for the QAnoners… Conspiracists believe that today Trump loyalists will overthrow the Government

Lord Sumption: civil disobedience has begun The retired Supreme Court justice believes we have no moral obligation to obey the law

Wednesday

03.03

Is Netflix behind the Covid baby bust? Good TV may have a bad effect on demography

Treasury North: campus or colonial outpost? Instead of devolving resources to Darlington, Whitehall has chosen to devolve itself

What now for Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party? An alliance with Europe's far-Right may be on the cards

Alexander Faludy

A national newspaper gives a pulpit to a bloodstained dictator Baron Lebedev has recast Rwanda's president as an environmental hero

Tuesday

02.03

Why is the NYT perpetuating myths about trans life in Britain? The paper has a warped image of the UK's transgender climate

Cambridge University’s cosy relationship with China Today's revelations are only the latest in a long line of links with the CCP

What’s spooking Rishi? Bond yields are ticking up — and sharply

Monday

01.03

Blood on the virtual street at Clubhouse A discussion of 'wokeism' quickly turned into a coup

Mary Harrington

Boris should make St. David’s Day a national holiday It's the perfect opportunity to appease an agitated part of the UK

Theo Davies-Lewis

Why Tories should welcome the new Scottish Labour leader The election of Anas Sarwar is good for the Union and the Conservatives

Sunday

28.02

Headmaster: I refuse to make pupils wear masks in class One London school will not be following the Government guidance

Friday

26.02

Mark Carney has some explaining to do The former Governor of the Bank of England's halo is a little tarnished

LGBT: an elegy for the L and G More and more young people claim not to be straight

Rapper Loki: Class, not identity, should drive politics Freddie Sayers discusses the taboo of social class with the Glaswegian musician

Paying for housework is not a victory for feminism Not everything is a financial transaction

Mary Harrington

Thursday

25.02

What’s a high-status meme worth? Christie's auction house is selling Instagram posts under the guise of high art

A second helping of Eat Out to Help Out? Don’t make me sick! It is a backwards, overcomplicated way to subsidise the restaurant industry

The new leader of the international liberal order Over the last 20 years, Japan has established itself as a major geopolitical force

The Today Programme’s glowing report on Xi Jinping Some scrutiny-free coverage from the UK's flagship news programme

How much real opposition is there left in Russia? The emergence of a new party has divided opinion

Wednesday

24.02

Cameron and Blair united against extremism? What could go wrong? The two former PMs have given their blessing to a new terrorism report

The Myth of the ‘Black Community’ The term fails to capture the cultural and political diversity among Black Britons

David Blunkett and Charles Walker join forces to question lockdowns Politicians from Left and Right on being in the dissenting minority

Where have all the workers gone? New data shows the biggest outflow of foreign born workers on record

Tuesday

23.02

Biden’s Equality Act is not the unifying issue he thinks it is The political move has the potential to radicalise suburban mothers

Mary Harrington

Have the Unionists just signed away peace in Northern Ireland? A loss of faith in the legal system could trigger resurgent loyalist violence

Trump is no Perón — but their opponents were similar Both leaders provoked far greater illiberalism on the part of their rivals

Geoff Shullenberger

Monday

22.02

Do the police know the difference between offensive and offence? The Wirral Police have not covered themselves in glory

White narcissism, not white supremacy, is plaguing America Hate crimes against Asian-Americans cannot be explained away by one theory

The ‘new optimists’ can’t see the wood for the trees Deforestation continues apace — no matter what some analysts say

How to pacify the populists New research suggests that they cause long-term economic harm

Friday

19.02

Uber: the end of the road for the gig economy model The Supreme Court's ruling could have profound implications for other companies

James Bloodworth

California’s Governor won’t get what he deserves Gavin Newsom faces no serious opposition despite his poor leadership

Claire Lehmann: Facebook has made a bad miscalculation Quillette's founding editor discusses the company's decision to pull news content

Why Left and Right alike fall for junk economics Is there such thing as a free lunch after all?

The Borgesian brilliance of Adam Curtis The documentary maker's films stand out for their art — not journalism

Thursday

18.02

Let’s face it: Test, Trace and Isolate was an expensive failure £22 billion was made available — so where are the results?

Keir Starmer’s ‘significant intervention’ was anything but Labour will need more than a few retail policies to remain relevant

Why we don’t tolerate Covid deaths among the over 70s New research shows that there’s much more life to live even at that age

If even David Icke fans aren’t anti-vaxxers… A report on high levels of vaccine hesitancy inadvertently shows the opposite

Wednesday

17.02

Remember that you are dust: why Ash Wednesday still resonates As the visible world recedes, and the invisible one seems to move a little closer

Joe Biden’s easy ride with reporters Trump or no Trump, America's press looks in bad shape

Is this the solution to Britain’s housing crisis? Give residents a vote on beautiful new streets

Free speech on campus — what’s not to like? It's not clear what critics of the Government's new white paper object to

Tuesday

16.02

Government scientist speaks out: we want the old normal back Freddie Sayers spoke to SPI-M member Dr Michael Tildesley about learning to live with the virus

Cymrophobia thrives at the heart of the British establishment Think Wales would never seek independence? Don't be so sure

Theo Davies-Lewis

America’s radical young rich are out of control This generation is lacking the restraints of past elites

Monday

15.02

An English Parliament means one thing: an English Yeltsin Nick Timothy's Scotland solution ignores the role of devosceptics

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain The contemporary Left is too invested in prosecuting a culture war

Slate Star Codex vs NYT is a battle within the same faith The blog controversy is over different versions of the same promised land

Mary Harrington

Friday

12.02

China didn’t Westernise; the West became more Chinese Covid has accelerated the competition between great powers

Are we seeing a vaccine effect already? We can look to Israel for clues

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens A halfway competent protest party on the Left could cause him problems

Thursday

11.02

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Covid has changed the immigration debate The political activist and feminist discusses her new book, Prey

The dark fantasy of a new Vichy France There is an undercurrent of Anglo-titillation with a Le Pen victory

Facebook censors award-winning journalist for criticising the WHO An article was labelled misinformation for asking questions about China

European populism isn’t going anywhere Despite the narrative of decline, certain parties are gathering power

Wednesday

10.02

Sorry Boris, school’s out for summer We are all exhausted, staff and students alike

Will Covid-19 turn us into a nation of ethicists? The pandemic has exposed what values we hold sacred

Elizabeth Oldfield

Lockdown scepticism is not Euroscepticism repackaged New research presents an entirely different picture

Should the Green Party’s poll progress worry Labour? Ipsos polling places them three times higher than their vote share in 2019

Tuesday

09.02

How high will Bitcoin be allowed to go? At some point, governments will intervene

Why is gender studies promoting anti-women literature? A new paper argues that ‘privileged white women’ ‘weaponise’ their trauma

Advice should focus on ventilation, not cleaning surfaces The Government advice on making businesses Covid secure is out of date

Jonathon Kitson

Monday

08.02

Another bizarre Labour proposal: scrapping the honours system Keir Starmer has a long way to go if he wants to be head of the 'patriotic party'

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over Hostilities between Gavin Barwell and Dan Hannan are a sign of more to come

Letter from Victoria, capital of Authoritarian Australia The state has implemented extremely draconian Covid measures

Edward Cranswick

Friday

05.02

The New York Times’ red-tinted glasses Why is the Grey Lady so strikingly uncritical of China?

Mary Harrington

Ladybird Books offer a blueprint for post-Covid Britain UK politics has been short on positive visions for decades, so why not this one?

Freddie Sayers and Julia Hobsbawm debate Adam Boulton on Sky The panelists found unexpected agreement about Neil O'Brien's Covid website

The EU would if it could, but it can’t so it won’t It can move quickly or undertake big projects — but not both at the same time

Thursday

04.02

Should we be vaccinating young people first? Prioritising 'quality-adjusted life years' over lives saved would change everything

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong Talking to Tories is a good thing, but the activist should also to listen to them

Why Ireland is abandoning the Church What once was a Christian country is fast becoming a nation of 'nones'

Wednesday

03.02

Roger Hallam: the conservative case for Extinction Rebellion The environmental campaigner tells Freddie Sayers his movement is not just for the radical Left

Italy’s democratic dilemma Will an anti-establishment party bow the knee to Italy's foremost Eurocrat?

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong 21 years into the 21st century and we have yet to nuke ourselves into extinction