Weekend Dispatch

Chicago’s theatre of violence Trump’s crackdown will change nothing

Alexander Nazaryan

Alexander Nazaryan

12 mins

1 Nov


Investigation

Christopher Steele: reputation-mauler for hire Russiagate was just the start

David Rose

8 mins

31 Oct


Mayoral election

New York’s Jews fear a Mamdani win Antisemitism is on the rise

Joel Kotkin

7 mins

30 Oct


epstein files

Should we believe Virginia Giuffre? Prince Andrew’s accuser was not always reliable

Michael Tracey

Michael Tracey

7 mins

30 Oct


Politics

How Labour lost the Left The Greens are on the rise

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani

6 mins

29 Oct

Weekend Profile

Zarah Sultana is a fickle comrade Your Party is a Leftist self-parody

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

< 1

1 Nov

weekend essay

A Second Religiosity is dawning But it won’t save Western culture

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

11 mins

1 Nov


Halloween

Do the Irish believe in ghosts? Collective trauma feeds the supernatural

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct

review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct


Bureaucracy

Why pen-pushers can’t run prisons Managerial rot has set in

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

6 mins

28 Oct


Weekend Profile

Zarah Sultana is a fickle comrade Your Party is a Leftist self-parody

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

< 1

1 Nov

Halloween

Do the Irish believe in ghosts? Collective trauma feeds the supernatural

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

7 mins

31 Oct

weekend essay

A Second Religiosity is dawning But it won’t save Western culture

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

11 mins

1 Nov


review

Californians are the elves of America Immortality is their latest aspiration

Cairo Smith

Cairo Smith

6 mins

30 Oct

Elections

Has the Dutch far-Right peaked? Geert Wilders faces a reckoning

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
UnHerd is for people who dare to think for themselves.

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Debt

Europe’s Ukraine loan is a bad bet Complex financial schemes only ever defraud

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

27 Oct


Vanity

The violence of facelifts Cosmetic surgery conceals our true selves

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

31 Oct

Peace Talks

Trump still can’t resist Putin Russia’s oil wealth beckons

Michal Kranz

Michal Kranz

6 mins

28 Oct


Deindustrialisation

Pittsburgh vs Cleveland: a tale of two Rust Belt cities One thrives while the other despairs

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

9 mins

27 Oct

US-China

Can Trump make a deal with Xi on Taiwan? The question will define US-China relations

Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter

5 mins

31 Oct

Culture

Meet China’s postmen poets Working-class literature is deeply subversive

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

weekend essay

Why feminists fell out of love Mankeeping spells the death of intimacy

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

10 mins

25 Oct


Plutocracy

Elon Musk: Star Trek Stalinist He’s pioneering an age of autocracy

B. Duncan Moench

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

23 Oct

review

Film buffs are Frankenstein’s real monsters Cinema doesn’t need to be serious

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

22 Oct


Music

Lily Allen’s non-monogamy nightmare The singer has exposed a cult

Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum

6 mins

30 Oct

populism

Meet Japan’s Iron Lady Sanae Takaichi is polarising the nation

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct

weekend dispatch

Dominic Cummings’ new nerd army Britain’s Young Turks are looking for growth

Wessie du Toit

Wessie du Toit

6 mins

25 Oct


Television

Nooky, nipples and The Forsytes Period dramas are too smutty

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

5 mins

20 Oct

Patriotism

The Battle of Hastings isn’t over Brits still ache for Anglo-Saxon England

Rosie Gray

Rosie Gray

6 mins

17 Oct


Populism

What the Left can learn from Argentina Populism shouldn’t be sneered at

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

30 Oct

75 years on

Save Narnia from the woke witch CS Lewis knew that children need to be frightened

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

5 mins

16 Oct

patriotism

Ireland can’t escape Big Daddy Authority is still associated with England

Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Lucy Sweeney Byrne

7 mins

25 Oct


Dispatch

What are Britain’s biohackers so afraid of? They crave control in a disordered world

Fin Carter

Fin Carter

5 mins

15 Oct

dispatch

How Farage seduced Grantham Reform understands Thatcher’s England

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

6 mins

14 Oct


Asia Tour

Can Trump charm President Xi? Personal diplomacy is his strength

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

29 Oct

belief system

Why LinkedIn loves Human Design Its gospel is individualism

Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

13 Oct

anti-vax

The toxic cult of Andrew Wakefield The disgraced doctor has found a new audience

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

24 Oct


premier league

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

10 Oct

Protests

Trump wants a war with blue cities And Chicago might give him one

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

5 mins

10 Oct


Review

Bugonia captures American paranoia The film reflects an irrational new world

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman

5 mins

29 Oct

monoculture

The last days of poptimism The new stars are old-school cool

Sam Jennings

Sam Jennings

8 mins

9 Oct

geopolitics

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

6 mins

23 Oct


Religion

Christian nationalism’s godless heart The West is more important than faith

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Michael Ledger-Lomas

8 mins

8 Oct

flags

Nationalism has claimed the Valleys South Wales has been abandoned by Labour

Brad Evans

Brad Evans

6 mins

7 Oct


Satire

Jonathan Swift’s lessons in irony He understood the bigotry of relativism

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

28 Oct

Review

The humiliation of PG Wodehouse His genius can’t be reduced to IP

Sam Leith

Sam Leith

4 mins

6 Oct

bond markets

It’s still the economy, stupid Labour has a fatal blindspot

James Meadway

James Meadway

5 mins

3 Oct

drugs

Why are kids snorting pink cocaine? It’s perfect for the Instagram generation

Max Daly

Max Daly

7 mins

2 Oct


psychology

‘Easy mode’ is corrupting children Checking out is as serious as trauma

Niklas Serning

Niklas Serning

7 mins

28 Oct

25 years on

Who killed the East End mobster? Gangsterism couldn’t survive globalisation

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

5 mins

1 Oct

Philosophy

How Evil is normalised It is not enough to avert one’s eyes

Jacob Howland

Jacob Howland

6 mins

30 Sep


Culture

Literary biographies are on life support Who cares about Tennyson today?

Boyd Tonkin

Boyd Tonkin

7 mins

29 Sep

feminism

Why men hate short hair The crop has always been entangled with politics

Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield

6 mins

27 Oct


Literature

John Boyne refuses to be cancelled Britain’s literati betrayed him

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

5 mins

26 Sep