ukraine peace plan

Trump has called Europe’s bluff The bureaucrats had no strategy

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

24 Nov

Mental Health

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

24 Nov


Dispatch

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

24 Nov


Mental Health

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

24 Nov


Dispatch

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

24 Nov


Sex

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov


weekend analysis

Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission Can Labour return to its working-class roots?

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

8 mins

22 Nov

Mental Health

The last of the Covidians The emergency mindset drove them mad

Ryan Zickgraf

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

24 Nov

Dispatch

Indian democracy is dying Accusations of vote theft are being ignored

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue

9 mins

24 Nov


Sex

Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’ Nicole Daedone exploited her followers

Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs

7 mins

24 Nov

music

How Radiohead let down their fans Politics has come back to bite Thom Yorke

Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson

8 mins

21 Nov


weekend analysis

Shabana Mahmood’s moral mission Can Labour return to its working-class roots?

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

8 mins

22 Nov


Identity

Confessions of a Heritage American Do I fit into the white-nationalist utopia?

Michael Lind

Michael Lind

8 mins

21 Nov

The Ashes

Cricket can redeem you Test series are an antidote to modernity

Tim Wigmore

Tim Wigmore

6 mins

20 Nov

Dispatch

Meet Faversham’s answer to Akhmed Yakoob A young activist is embracing working-class rage

Fred Sculthorp

Fred Sculthorp

7 mins

21 Nov


from the archive

Let’s talk about Ariana Grande’s body She represents an ideal of adulthood

Sarah Ditum

Sarah Ditum

5 mins

19 Nov

Books

Enough of the Literary It Girl Women's reality deserves better than porn logic

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

5 mins

19 Nov

Our Mission

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

Mission Statement
Weekend essay

Britain’s free speech paradox The law has become incoherent

Jonathan Sumption

Jonathan Sumption

20 mins

22 Nov


urbanism

Smart cities will kill freedom Planning is the enemy of play

Matthew Crawford

Matthew Crawford

10 mins

20 Nov

Gentrification

America’s invasion of Mexico Digital nomads are tearing neighbourhoods apart

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

10 mins

17 Nov


Privacy

The high street’s authoritarian turn Live facial recognition is no solution to crime

Timandra Harkness

Timandra Harkness

6 mins

18 Nov

80 years on

What we owe Nuremberg Nazi trials show why we need international law

Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans

5 mins

20 Nov

America

The futility of pensioner protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

14 Nov

Weekend History

The riot that saved America Republican activists stopped the steal in 2000

Jeff Bloodworth

Jeff Bloodworth

8 mins

22 Nov


Dispatch

The San Francisco school sacrificed to equity Progressives are ignoring the poor

Leighton Woodhouse

Leighton Woodhouse

7 mins

13 Nov

Dispatch

Getting a kick out of amateur football Fans dodge sheep invasions and geese droppings

Ross Davies

Ross Davies

8 mins

12 Nov


Ukraine war

Russia’s veterans are bringing violence home The state keeps them in battle mode

Ian Garner

Ian Garner

6 mins

19 Nov

Faith

Beware the religious revival It heralds a great upending

John Michael Greer

John Michael Greer

10 mins

11 Nov

Weekend review

The horndog rebellion of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The film mistakes lust for liberation

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

8 mins

22 Nov


review

When did Springsteen stop making great albums? ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ holds a clue

Matt Feeney

Matt Feeney

7 mins

10 Nov

Africa

Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria Bombs won’t work, but sanctions might

Remi Adekoya

Remi Adekoya

7 mins

7 Nov


Centrism

Blokeism won’t save Starmer It’s already an old aesthetic

Josiah Gogarty

Josiah Gogarty

6 mins

19 Nov

Mayoral election

Will America elect a socialist president? Mamdani could pave the way for AOC

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

6 Nov

right to choose

What progressives won’t say about abortion The sanitised narrative ignores ethical truths

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

21 Nov


new world order

How MAGA trumped neoliberalism Economic coercion is now acceptable

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic

7 mins

5 Nov

Review

John Updike’s carnal Christianity He knew the hymn beneath the hard-on

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil

6 mins

4 Nov


New York

Mamdani-Trumpers are America’s future Fickle new voters are loyal to no one

James Billot

James Billot

8 mins

18 Nov

social scene

Why London’s literati can’t write Egalitarianism doesn’t produce great work

Rose Lyddon

Rose Lyddon

8 mins

3 Nov

investigation

Why is America selling its schools to China? ‘Red Fred’ has the answer

David Rose

David Rose

7 mins

20 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


Israel

How the IDF escapes justice Netanyahu is dismantling Israeli law

Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov

7 mins

18 Nov

Elections

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

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

6 mins

29 Oct

Gen Z

The empty activism of New York’s ‘first lady’ Rama Duwaji’s shallow art is very 2020

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

19 Nov


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


Bias

Why the BBC was never impartial Not all beliefs should be respected

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

17 Nov

Culture

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

Megan Walsh

Megan Walsh

6 mins

24 Oct

budget

The delusions of the centrist Chancellor Mindless fiscal rules cause stagnation

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

6 mins

19 Nov


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


civil war

Who comes after Starmer? Labour has no good options

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

14 Nov

populism

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

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

20 Oct

Agriculture

Labour is crushing Britain’s farmers Who else will feed the nation?

James Rebanks

James Rebanks

8 mins

18 Nov


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


Review

Meet the new gay dissidents The queer alliance is splintering

Jarryd Bartle

Jarryd Bartle

5 mins

14 Nov

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