Jordan Peterson on tour

11/28/2019 - 6:10pm

Is Jordan Peterson a gateway to the alt-right? A new study suggests maybe — but it's still better to engage than to demonise

How old is too old in politics? Should there be an age limit for political candidates?

Is America losing the war on misery? More Americans are dying 'deaths of despair' through drug or alcohol abuse

Mary Harrington

Wednesday

27.11

The YouGov map that says it all One powerful image shows how the Tories are heading for a majority

Did the Green Party miss a trick with Brexit? Could a pro-Brexit Greens party have united liberals and small c conservatives?

Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better We end up consuming rubbish, even though there's plenty of good stuff to go round

Tuesday

26.11

Today’s immigration data reveals a divided country The latest polling on UnHerd Britain shows how attitudes to immigration differ, even between neighbouring areas

Monday

25.11

Housing policy — will the Tories never learn? A government that refuses to take action against rentiers and land bankers will not be able to deliver affordable home ownership

Elsa goes all Elizabeth Warren in Frozen 2 Should the snow queen take a 23andMe test?

The Manichaeism of the Left will be its undoing The good-or-evil cult of the Corbyn Left will prevent it winning elections

Podcast: George Monbiot’s Confessions The latest episode of Confessions with Giles Fraser is now live

Saturday

23.11

GPS “crop circles” point to a weird data future This story from MIT Technology Review reveals a new kind of big data crime

Mary Harrington

Friday

22.11

Now the Illiberal Democrats ban Catholics A Lib Dem candidate was deselected on the grounds that he is an orthodox Roman Catholic

Young Tories can’t find a place to live 'Partyism' is spreading into every area of life, but there is a cure

Thursday

21.11

Two cheers for Labour’s housing policy It pains me to say it, but there's a lot to welcome in Corbyn's manifesto

What the fork, Marie Kondo? When luxuries become abundant, the rejection of abundance becomes the new luxury.

Wednesday

20.11

UnHerd Britain launches on the Peston Show We were delighted to be "geek of the week" on Peston

Pivot to burnout Marketing experts should put their creative energy into rebranding Sabbath

Elizabeth Oldfield

Who are the Boris-backing C2DEs? The NRS social grade system is useful for economists, but confusing for everyone else

Tuesday

19.11

Leadership debate turns Blind Date The set may have been borrowed from The Weakest Link, but the atmosphere was full Cilla Black

Iran shows the danger of a nationalised internet The shutdown should make supporters of Labour's policy think again

Mary Harrington

Sajid Javid’s land tax doesn’t go far enough The Chancellor must embrace a Churchillian principle

Monday

18.11

Boris will move on economics more easily than culture Beyond Brexit, what sort of domestic agenda would the PM actually implement?

Even a royalist like me struggles with the Windsors The royal family are facing a new annus horribilis

Identity politics has gone mainstream A recent festival showed how identity politics is no longer the preserve of posh students

Saturday

16.11

Autocratic regimes are influencing our universities A new select committee report details the influence of foreign regimes in Academia

Mary Harrington

Friday

15.11

Meet the Groypers: the alt-Right’s newest fringe It is perfectly 2019 that today’s ‘rebels’ are a group of hyper-reactionary boys yearning for a time they never knew

Today’s reaction shows the Corbyn cult at its rawest The Labour Party's response to today's letter in the Guardian is typical of the leadership

Stephen Pollard

Reversing Beeching is just the beginning The economic isolation of large parts of the north and rural areas began in the 1960s, with a misguided sense of the future

Tips from a grandmaster for the game of life A new book on chess illustrates the deep value of concentration - particularly in today's digital world

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

14.11

Deadlocked Democracy The rise of populist, separatist and environmentalist parties is making it harder to form coalition governments

Labour must come to its senses over Freedom of Movement Voters have had enough of their communities being collateral damage in the game of global capitalism