conspiracy

Save us from the crank Right Has Donald Trump let them down?

Sohrab Ahmari

Sohrab Ahmari

7 mins

1 Oct


keir starmer

Britain’s wage slaves are revolting Labour is failing its working-class base

Jonny Ball

6 mins

1 Oct


immigration

Shabana Mahmood versus the Labour Party Her own side is holding her back

Rob Lownie

7 mins

30 Sep


MAGA

Why economists get Trumpism wrong It will succeed before it fails

Wolfgang Munchau

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

29 Sep


Weekend spotlight

The virtue of America First Sovereign realism is the future

Arta Moeini

Arta Moeini

5 mins

27 Sep

Reform

What MAGA is teaching Farage’s Fillies The mum vote is political dynamite

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

1 Oct

Culture

Should we re-moralise art? There’s no soul in galleries

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

30 Sep


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


Weekend Analysis

Why slogans won’t change the world $380 sweaters are for posers

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock

5 mins

27 Sep


Reform

What MAGA is teaching Farage’s Fillies The mum vote is political dynamite

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

1 Oct

25 years on

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

Dominic Adler

Dominic Adler

5 mins

1 Oct

Culture

Should we re-moralise art? There’s no soul in galleries

Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

7 mins

30 Sep


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

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

Morgan McSweeney’s moment of truth The Labour fixer is in trouble

Jonny Ball

Jonny Ball

6 mins

27 Sep


censorship

The battle behind digital IDs Secrecy has always been powerful

Toby Green

Toby Green

8 mins

30 Sep

Literature

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

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel

5 mins

26 Sep


Middle East

Syria’s future is sectarian Religious minorities feel threatened

Tam Hussein

Tam Hussein

8 mins

25 Sep

War

Will Labour learn to love defence? The unions are resisting rearmament

Paul Mason

Paul Mason

7 mins

29 Sep

Renewables

Donald Trump’s war on wind He is out for revenge

Alexander Nazaryan

Alexander Nazaryan

5 mins

24 Sep

Weekend Review

Is Guinness really Irish? An Anglo elite once ruled Dublin

Alexander Poots

Alexander Poots

6 mins

27 Sep


Gender Wars

The future of feminism is childcare Focus on the work-motherhood conflict

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

6 mins

23 Sep

DPRK

Could a woman rule North Korea? Kim Jong Un’s daughter could be next in line

Elizabeth Norton

Elizabeth Norton

6 mins

22 Sep


Reality TV

How American privacy died The internet is just a scapegoat

Tiffany Jenkins

Tiffany Jenkins

8 mins

29 Sep

Data centre

Can Big Tech save Northumberland? Don’t expect a second coal boom

Dan Jackson

Dan Jackson

5 mins

19 Sep

Rearmament

Will Putin call Nato’s bluff? European militaries are a paper tiger

Edward Luttwak

Edward Luttwak

6 mins

26 Sep


Big Tech

Are we living in a simulation? Reality is slipping away

Zachary Hardman

Zachary Hardman

5 mins

18 Sep

The Left

Socialism is as American as apple pie Mamdani has legendary predecessors

Matt McManus

Matt McManus

6 mins

17 Sep


Kirk killing

The truth about trans violence We need research, not demonisation

Benjamin Ryan

Benjamin Ryan

7 mins

16 Sep

Argentina

Javier Milei’s last chance Trump has thrown him a lifeline

John Rapley

John Rapley

6 mins

25 Sep


election

The Dutch are turning against Wilders Are centrists back in favour?

Senay Boztas

Senay Boztas

5 mins

15 Sep

Psychedelics

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Justin Smith-Ruiu

Justin Smith-Ruiu

8 mins

12 Sep


Neoliberalism

Why London is unliveable Housing is a cross-party disaster

Peter Apps

Peter Apps

8 mins

26 Sep

Race

Iryna Zarutska is the Right’s George Floyd Her killing has been weaponised

Simon Cottee

Simon Cottee

6 mins

11 Sep

Dispatch

Can Reform revive the Lib Dems? Ed Davey’s buffoonery is no match for Farage

Cosmo Adair

Cosmo Adair

6 mins

24 Sep


Pensions

How the boomers crippled France Bayrou is right about the broken social contract

Francois Valentin

Francois Valentin

7 mins

10 Sep

Democracy

Why the bureaucrats won’t be toppled Revolts no longer work

Ben Landau-Taylor

Ben Landau-Taylor

6 mins

9 Sep


conspiracy

How autism became a political battleground What would Elon Musk think?

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

25 Sep

Election

Wealth taxes are making Norway poorer Entrepreneurs have abandoned Oslo

Ian Birrell

Ian Birrell

7 mins

8 Sep

energy

Europe’s boneheaded sanctions regime Moscow and Beijing are laughing at Brussels

Thomas Fazi

Thomas Fazi

6 mins

24 Sep


In Our Time

The BBC has nothing to Bragg about Nobody wants low-brow laziness

Giles Fraser

Giles Fraser

4 mins

5 Sep

legalism

Inside the Magic Circle Corporate lawyers control the UK

Josiah Gogarty

Josiah Gogarty

6 mins

4 Sep


Democrats

Kamala Harris has run out of excuses A thousand days wouldn’t have saved her

John Allen Wooden

John Allen Wooden

6 mins

25 Sep

back to school

Why exams are good for you We’re raising a cohort of wimps

Poppy Sowerby

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

3 Sep

Five years on

David Graeber: the Left’s lost hero He knew bureaucracy is bullshit

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

2 Sep

Faith

The war for China’s soul Xi sees Christianity as spiritual opium

Christopher Harding

Christopher Harding

5 mins

1 Sep


drama

Does Trump read Shakespeare? There’s a lot about the President in Hamlet

Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

24 Sep

Gender wars

Which pronouns, trans shooter? Robert Westman epitomised failed masculinity

Valerie Stivers

Valerie Stivers

4 mins

29 Aug

summer read

John Robison: the first tech bro He conjured an 18th-century deep state

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman

6 mins

28 Aug


Summer Read

Don’t mourn old England Pre-industrial nostalgia is a mistake

Samuel Rubinstein

Samuel Rubinstein

5 mins

27 Aug

religious revival

Why Christianity is so radical Forgiveness is harder than blame

Marilyn Simon

Marilyn Simon

7 mins

24 Sep


Show trials

The rise of the trauma star TV justice is replacing the real thing

Lily Isaacs

Lily Isaacs

5 mins

26 Aug