10/22/2021 - 4:45pm

The latest advocates for magic mushrooms? High Tories Crispin Blunt urged the PM to look into their exciting potential

Does Germany have a mercenary problem? Private armies have a long and undistinguished history in the country

Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports? The former PM should find a new pet project

Madeleine Stone

Le Woke has arrived at French newsrooms Intergenerational wars are erupting inside France's liberal bastions

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Thursday, October 21

Dominic Cummings’s advice to Labour: sack Starmer The former chief advisor to Boris Johnson details how Labour can win in 2024

Why the West should keep buying cheap crap It isn't that bad for the environment and it benefits poorer countries

The Assisted Dying bill is based on shaky evidence Baroness Meacher’s proposed 'safeguards' are unsafe and unwise

Sajid is right: we don’t need more restrictions Nothing in the data suggests that it's time for 'Plan B'

Watch out Macron: the Gilet Jaunes are back It may not be Éric Zemmour that the French president has to worry about

Wednesday, October 20

Open borders activists are undermining Joe Biden They don't care if the Democrats lose the midterms, or even the Presidency

The synthetic drugs destroying America Deaths are exploding across all ethnic groups and around the country

University anti-spike boycotts put the onus on women These campaigns might raise awareness, but they are still only symbolic

Kristina Murkett

Welcome to Team TERF, Margaret Atwood The writer seems to have accepted the implications of her worldview

Mary Harrington

It’s a demand problem, not a supply chain crisis The pinch is global, and the cause is misunderstood

Tuesday, October 19

Wokeness is giving cover to bullies Children are using social justice rhetoric to pick on others

Come to Poland, Jeremy Clarkson! The Top Gear presenter is loved here more than anywhere else

The UK is letting its army wither A strong Union needs a strong Armed Forces

Monday, October 18

Colin Powell: a would-be President ruined by Iraq He was once described as 'a modern George Washington'

Why the Internet needs anons The tragic murder of an MP should not be used to curtail civil liberties

Viktor Orbán is about to face his biggest challenge yet Hungary's opposition parties may have found a winner in Péter Márki-Zay

Alexander Faludy

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero They are turning attention away from the causes of the energy crisis

Anger and resignation at Green Pass protests in Italy Protestors at this weekend's demonstrations in Milan had little hope

Social mobility, Alexander Hamilton style The American founding father shows us how to make society more equal

Saturday, October 16

The misogyny of trans activists In Portsmouth they behaved like they wanted a war, not dialogue

Friday, October 15

Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall documentary is unmissable The charity was never impartial

The 100 year old Nazi standing trial in Germany It is hard to watch, but justice is being pursued 76 years later

UnHerd picks: The week’s best Substacks Featuring: Salman Rushdie, Civil Rights law, and advice from Dominic Cummings

Thursday, October 14

Yes, Edmund Burke is British The philosopher was British — something that infuriates Remainers

A message to Matt Hancock: Africa doesn’t want you The last thing this continent needs is another Covid messiah

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi

Prince William is wrong: let Bezos go to space! The $7 billion invested in Blue Origin is money well spent

Eastern European populism isn’t going anywhere yet The Czech Prime Minister was ousted this week — but Orbán is safe for now

The question the Covid report failed to answer What is most revealing about the new study is what it leaves out