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07/12/2021 - 4:00pm

Big Tech wants to read your mind AI is taking frictionless shopping to new extremes

Mary Harrington

Italy’s young voters are drifting to the Right New polling shows that populism is not the preserve of older voters

Here in Italy, football is the last great unifying force Only the Azzurris can transcend the nation's bitter divisions

The French Greens fight — and lose — a pointless statue war Sandbagging plans for a new monument is a waste of political capital

Friday, July 9

Young people don’t want a Great Reset Returning to pre-pandemic normality won't fix structural disadvantages

Progressives still don’t understand Churchill Comparing the former PM to Jesus and Mohammed misses the point

Pro-lockdown polling is not as clear as you might think Does one-fifth of the country really support nighttime curfews?

Why can’t anyone afford property? Blame central banks Speculation is preventing a generation from becoming homeowners

Thursday, July 8

Britain’s Afghan failure comes to an end The war is over, but will the UK's defeat be remembered?

The sad decline of Oliver Stone The filmmaker has sold himself to some of the worst tyrannies on earth

Are scientists inching closer to a cure for genetic diseases? A new study offers cause for optimism

The war in West Papua the world ignores Indonesia is fighting a dirty campaign in the region

Wednesday, July 7

Zoom lectures are destroying the university experience Online learning should not become a permanent part of higher education

Have younger voters really gone red? A new generation of socialists may be upon us

Germany’s autobahn wars are intensifying The future of this country's roads will hinge on who wins the next election

Fifteen reasons why Denmark is the best country in the world England's semi-final opponents come from a truly blessed plot

Tuesday, July 6

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong? The journal is doubling down on its rejection of the lab leak hypothesis

Did devolution cost lives? Leaders shifted blame, pointed the finger, and undermined good policy

Rupert Sheldrake: Science does not tolerate dissent Freddie Sayers spoke to the biologist about the dogma of scientism

Decriminalising crime continues to hurt San Francisco The city's liberal approach to petty crime is wreaking havoc on ordinary citizens

Sorry Extinction Rebellion, but nature is not progressive The world is, I'm afraid, dreadfully reactionary

Monday, July 5

At Bristol University, feminists are under attack We are being punished for insisting on our sex-based rights

Raquel Rosario Sánchez

The queering of The Lord of the Rings Progressives think Sam and Frodo were more than good friends

The latest front in the identity wars: sexual orientation Activists would have us believe that preferences are just 'genital fetishes'

Mary Harrington

UnHerd picks: June’s best Substacks Featuring culture wars, DNA, Jeff Bezos, OnlyFans and Dr Johnson

Friday, July 2

Footballing success matters more for Ukraine than England Victory in Saturday's game can help to unify a divided nation

Labour’s problem is not George Galloway: it’s Arthur Balfour Victory in Batley and Spen will not make the Palestinian question go away

Canada’s heatwave is a vision of our future In decades to come swathes of the world will resemble British Columbia today

Thursday, July 1

Is the fall of Jacob Zuma good news for South Africa? Endemic corruption might be combated now the former President is jailed

Govt modeller: What our Covid forecasts got wrong SPI-M member Dr Mike Tildesley considers whether June 21st could have gone ahead

What wrestling taught Donald Rumsfeld about power and pain The former defence secretary never forgot the principles of his college sport

How a single meeting in Oxford saved millions of lives The Nuffield Department of Medicine has had an outsized impact