The empty symbolism of the Nobel Prize for Economics Why are we honouring mind-numbingly abstract contributions?

Tuesday

13.10

America’s history is swallowing our own Bizarrely, Brits don't seem to care

Will $30 billion fix racial inequality? Bankers will have to spend a lot more to make up for 2008

Monday

12.10

Rebels against the marriage ‘market’ There's a surprising interest among the Very Online in old-fashioned matchmaking

Mary Harrington

The liberal paradox Concern about children points to the heart of the America's cultural divide

Friday

09.10

Is The Guardian planning an attack on the Great Barrington scientists? Professor Martin Kulldorff of Harvard is the latest scientist in the firing line

Populist or progressive? Post-Covid politics will be neither Evidence suggests that a conservative mood may be growing across Europe

Thursday

08.10

Prof Francois Balloux: the climate of fear on Covid is dangerous Freddie Sayers discusses the Covid pandemic with the renowned professor

McCluskey is playing right into Starmer’s hands The electorate won't care about Unite’s gesture of defiance

The Covid ban on visitors during childbirth is inhumane Women have always needed familiar faces around them during this time

Wednesday

07.10

Sorry, kids, we were ‘demisexual’ years ago Not wanting to have one-night stands isn't an identity

Boris Johnson’s U-turn No politician is better at turning on a sixpence than the Prime Minister

Tuesday

06.10

The Thatcherites no longer run the asylum Boris Johnson's speech underscored the new ideological positioning of the Tories

Our Covid strategy is based on faulty assumptions When will they start to look at whether these 'interventions' actually work?

How Covid could leave a 100-year scar Levelling up has acquired a whole new urgency

Monday

05.10

Pope Francis upsets both sides of the culture war His latest encyclical, ‘Fratelli Tutti’, challenges Left- and Right-wing assumptions

Mary Harrington

BLM divides white Americans more than anyone else Our polling shows that Americans aren't split along racial lines

Saturday

03.10

Why does Trump get to choose if Regeneron works? Little is known about the experimental drug being taken by the President

Friday

02.10

End the silence on gender identity services Doctors must be free to express their concerns about premature transitioning

Vitamin D is no silver bullet A new study claims that it cuts Covid deaths by half, which seems far-fetched

Prince Harry should try looking the East End in the face All aristocracies must encourage an ideology to justify their position

Thursday

01.10

Tanks for the memory The Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict raises question marks about their future

How Trump mainstreamed Critical Race Theory Freddie Sayers speaks to James Lindsay about the dangers posed by the ideology

Five reasons why populism is here to stay Rumours of its death are greatly exaggerated

Wednesday

30.09

Make Welsh the official language of Great Britain It is the descendant of a language once spoken throughout our Union

Yesterday’s men fighting yesterday’s battle Neither Trump nor Biden could present a bold vision for the next generation

Ann Coulter for President? Even she’s had enough of Republican and Democrat tax policies

Tuesday

29.09

Old punks never die — they just become conservatives Even singers like John Lydon are turning into fogeys

Let’s recruit our politicians from overseas British businesses draw on a global pool of talent. Why can't the government?

Monday

28.09

Water shortages? You can bet on it Hedge funds are now looking to turn scarcity into profit

Mary Harrington

Lib Dems squash internal revolt on trans rights The party appears to be in thrall to Gender Identity Ideology

Friday

25.09

Gender self-ID: An open letter to Government 54 lawyers and academics object to its wide implementation

Various Contributors

Ireland’s churches are meekly accepting their fate Few Catholic leaders are fighting back against the ban on public worship

Americans are worried about the West — maybe that’s a good thing The fear of losing a civilisation may end up unifying the country

Thursday

24.09

French expert takes the Covid debate in a new direction Jean-Francois Toussaint explains what the pandemic means for the human species

How risky are the human challenge trials? It may make sense from a utilitarian point of view, but it is ethically dubious

Did the British invent anything? A question that liberals need not answer

Wednesday

23.09

It’s time for Britain to return to a heptarchy Regional governments would have handled the pandemic better than No10

Why women suffer most from cancel culture Feminists are being silenced for daring to speak up for their hard-won rights

No Covid culture wars please, we’re British Whatever our Brexit differences, we stood together in 2020

Tuesday

22.09

Is Italy facing another populist backlash? Regional elections reveal a big loss in support for the national government

Starmer talks to the Wall Sir Keir gives his speech in — and to — Labour’s lost heartland

Don’t de-colonise the Pitt Rivers — Westernise it Instead of removing indigenous art, why not add Western objects to go with it?

Whitty and Vallance are playing a dangerous game The dubious use of statistics by the CMO and CSO will only undermine trust

Sir Graham Brady: I can’t vote for another lockdown The leading Tory backbencher tells UnHerd that the mood has changed decisively in the party

Monday

21.09

Is this the question that will win it for Joe Biden? One of his worst attributes may turn out to be his best

Don’t treat children like consumer goods 'Commissioning' babies is a worrying trend that must be resisted in the UK

Mary Harrington

The unspoken truth about our permissive society The arc of history does not bend towards ever-increasing social liberalism

Friday

18.09

Anti-racism is a virtue gone mad Princeton University might lose millions of dollars as a result

Boeing’s deadly sin Greed is not just a corporate failure, but a moral one too

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

17.09

If your child has the sniffles, is it Covid or a cold? The symptoms for each virus are almost indistinguishable

Don’t recycle plastic. Burn it. There's nothing to gain from dumping plastic rubbish halfway across the world

Does international law even exist? It is made by and for states, which are invariably motivated by national interest

Wednesday

16.09

Why are we racialising Beethoven? As a person of colour, I don't feel 'excluded' when I listen to the 5th Symphony

Why fusionism failed The relationship between conservatism and capitalism was doomed from the start

Tuesday

15.09

Even tribal Tories are baffled by the Rule of Six The PM can’t see the value of anything that doesn’t contribute to the exchequer

Mary Harrington

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain They still don't understand the extent and nature of their privilege

Monday

14.09

Don’t fall for the Venus life trap Is there really evidence of life on the planet?

The evidence for the ‘Rule of 6’ is not promising There is nothing to suggest that it limits the spread of Covid-19

Less likely than being struck by lightning? Think I’ll stay indoors The risk of dying from Covid is tiny, but people can't help being frightened anyway

Friday

11.09

Full employment is making a timely comeback Gordon Brown is reviving a core Labour idea, neglected since the 1980s

The paranoid style in vaccine science The Oxford trial was halted, but that does not mean that the vaccine is unsafe

Thursday

10.09

Merlin Sheldrake: the philosophy of fungi Freddie Sayers speaks to the biologist about the mysterious world of mushrooms

Why is the Manchester bomber’s praying not relevant? Religious sensitivities should not stigmatise reporting irregular behaviour

Wednesday

09.09

Don’t call the new Brexit bill ‘illegal’. It isn’t. It may be bad policy, but Brandon Lewis is not signing a criminal’s charter

Polly Mackenzie

Is Donald Trump toast? The pollsters Nate Silver, Doug Rivers and Robert Cahaly have radically different ideas about the coming election

Yes, women are suffering during Covid-19 — but it’s men who are dying… The UN Secretary-General is the latest to bring identity politics to the pandemic

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

08.09

Why aren’t my fellow socialists backing Boris on state aid? The PM is right to resist the 1990s-era rules of the EU

Why I’m no longer talking to white liberals about race They live in a different reality from my own

Monday

07.09

Britain should embrace Canadian-style patriotism The Great White North has become a shining example of a diverse democracy

On euthanasia, old Conservatives are the new radicals Burkean Tories are now the exception, not the rule

Mary Harrington

Friday

04.09

The UBI debate exposes an ancient Christian division A clash between the Weberian Protestant work ethic and Anglo-Catholic nostalgia

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state It's not just the authorities that are getting the latest gadgets

Thursday

03.09

Tyler Cowen on herd mentality and herd immunity Freddie Sayers speaks to the influential US thinker about Covid-19, the media and Trump

Spare me the outrage of the sex trade apologists Don't blame Bella Thorne for succeeding in an industry that we enable

Sharia law is a threat to women everywhere As the case of Afsana Lachaux's shows, its reach extends far beyond the Middle East

Wednesday

02.09

I used to be a ‘Right-wing comic’ — here’s what the BBC doesn’t get Conservative comedians exist in abundance, but only a few talk about politics

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic? Evidence shows that silence reduces the spread of Covid-19... so which countries are the loudest?

Tuesday

01.09

America’s culture war is turning into a petty squabble And invariably, the English-speaking world gets sucked into it

Mary Harrington

Johan Giesecke gets new role at WHO The Swedish epidemiologist has been handed a more senior position

Monday

31.08

There’s more to foreign news than US politics Something the UK media seems to forget...

Friday

28.08

Prof Michael Levitt: here’s what I got wrong The Nobel Prize winner returns to LockdownTV to discuss his predictions