Krystall Ball (R) featured on last Tuesday's BBC Newsnight programme

03/06/2020 - 9:51am

The real dangers of a Biden presidency A rising media star in the US delivers a scathing assessment of the former VP

Thursday, March 5

The toilet paper crisis is just bog-standard capitalism Profiteering and stockpiling during a crisis reveals the weakness of the system

Voters give the Government a thumbs up on coronavirus It's early days, but so far the country is impressed with the handling of the crisis

What are the odds a sneeze will give you coronavirus? Let me offer a ballpark estimate...

Wednesday, March 4

Communitarians need better words and more facts A new project aims to attach some facts to that well-worn word, "community"

James O'Shaughnessy

Joe Biden back from the dead, mostly Contrary to fevered speculation in the media, Super Tuesday wasn't the breakthrough moment for Bernie Sanders

Will liberalism kill the coronavirus, or will the coronavirus kill liberalism? Two prominent writers disagree

Tuesday, March 3

‘Happiness’ is a bogus metric By deflecting attention from material problems, we are seeking to reform people’s emotional reactions

Panicking about coronavirus will save lives Whatever you do, don't keep calm and carry on

Farming is too important for Britain to be ‘like Singapore’ An economist's leaked remarks reveal a lack of understanding into the industry's social value

Mary Harrington

Monday, March 2

Proportional representation has trapped Israel in a ghost story For a brief moment during Brexit I thought PR was the way to go. I should have known better.

Mary Beard is the exception that proves the rule The furore over the classicist's blocked appointment to the British Museum reveals the Left's cultural domination

Saturday, February 29

Trouble in Paradise: The dark underbelly of the Maldives This holiday fantasyland disguises a great deal of internal strife

Mary Harrington

Friday, February 28

Pubs, not cafes, are the home of public conversation Unlike coffee, alcohol creates a space in which people can freely engage with each other

WATCH: Freddie Sayers on Sky News’ <I> All out Politics </I> Our executive editor features alongside Julia Hobsbawm in this morning's show

Tory British Indians are not driven by racism A lazy <i> Guardian </i> article implies as much

Does the BBC know astrology isn’t real? A bizarre segment on 'Mercury in retrograde' lacked any mention of the underlying science

The zero-carbon future might save our communities If we want to maintain relationships, we will have to move less

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday, February 27

The end of the world for climate change hypocrites The Heathrow judgement marks the end of denial about the hard choices ahead

Helicopter money finally lands in Hong Kong The government's decision to give each of its citizens HK$10,000 is the clearest example to date - will the UK be next?

Church-going is the first step on the road to faith Madeline Grant's beguiling Telegraph piece omitted one possible outcome

The New York Times casts doubt on Harvey Weinstein conviction Reporters highlight unusual elements in the legal case brought against the mogul

Trevor Philips: Freedom of Speech is about protecting minorities At last night's Freedom of Speech Union launch, the campaigner said that the cause should not be considered Right-wing

Wednesday, February 26

Memo to Boris: Buses will only get you so far Boris Johnson's new seats in the North didn't vote to become commuter zones for a few urban centres

Is Red Toryism a gateway to the far Left? A discussion in the House of Commons exposes a divide in the party

Tuesday, February 25

No Mr Mount, Boris Johnson is not Mussolini An extraordinary LRB essay makes the comparison

Nearly three-quarters of Brits find meaning in their jobs A YouGov chart points to a crisis of meaning at work — but is that a glass quarter-empty take?

The Left and Right outrage machines are stuck in the past Today's identity politics stems from 18th and early 19th century reaction to the Enlightenment

Gays and lesbians are abandoning the LGBTQIAA+ movement Lesbian vlogger Arielle Scarcella is joining other gay, lesbian and bi people in leaving the group

Mary Harrington

Monday, February 24

The danger of free speech zones Toby Young's Free Speech Union has a noble objective, but risks falling into the hands of the wrong people

UnHerd’s picks from the morning papers Stories about universities sneering at patriotism, the culture wars quagmire and the French far-Right caught our eye this morning

Please, Rory, let us sleep in peace The night is for sleeping — not political campaigning