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Wednesday, 3 June Wednesday
3 Jun^rd

Analysis 07:00

Why British farmers love Farage

Why British farmers love Farage

Liam Stokes

Tuesday, 2 June Tuesday
2 Jun^nd

Reaction 18:00

Have Republicans gone too far on trans, or not far enough?

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Even if some measures have veered into outright cruelty, that does not negate the case for restoring sex-based policy.

Lisa Selin Davis

News 16:15

Germany asylum applications fall to lowest level since 2012

Archie Earle

Reaction 13:00

Curtain-twitchers have killed Soho

Curtain-twitchers have killed Soho

Richard Crampton-Platt

Debate 10:00

Henry Nowak murder has shattered trust in British police

Dominic Adler

Reaction 07:00

Oldham is still obscuring the horror of grooming gangs

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Victims have long argued that the particular dynamics of Pakistani Muslim perpetrators must be exposed.

Julie Bindel

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Henry Nowak’s death shames Britain

Henry Nowak’s death shames Britain Progressive obsessions have warped the state

Aris Roussinos

6 mins

3 Jun 2026 - 12:04am

How Reform ate Labour’s lunch

How Reform ate Labour’s lunch Farage has charmed the working man

Mary Harrington

7 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:03am

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Monday, 1 June Monday
1 Jun^st

Debate 18:00

RFK Jr’s war on Lyme disease has only just begun

Garth Brown

Friday, 29 May Friday
29 May^th

Debate 18:30

Freedom 250 shows MAGA should stop chasing celebrity validation

Freedom 250 shows MAGA should stop chasing celebrity validation

Oliver Bateman

Thursday, 28 May Thursday
28 May^th

Reaction 12:30

Universities are paying the price for ditching SATs

Neetu Arnold

Wednesday, 27 May Wednesday
27 May^th

Debate 18:50

Paxton proved Massie’s ‘craziest son of a bitch’ theory

Emily Jashinsky

Tuesday, 26 May Tuesday
26 May^th

Dispatch 18:15

Graham Platner’s Leftism takes inspiration from MAGA

Graham Platner’s Leftism takes inspiration from MAGA

Nikos Mohammadi

Mike Pence should go away already

American conservatism

Mike Pence should go away already His Reaganite faith comes up short

James Billot

6 mins

2 Jun 2026 - 12:00am

When cowboys fought capitalism

When cowboys fought capitalism Talarico should reclaim Texas’s radical roots

David Griscom

7 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:00am

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie

How Trump and the neocons beat Thomas Massie But it’s a hollow victory

Ross Barkan

5 mins

20 May 2026 - 10:13am

Invasion of the literary bots

Invasion of the literary bots Did AI game the Commonwealth Prize?

Vincenzo Barney

8 mins

20 May 2026 - 8:30am

Watch & listen

UnHerd Academy Tom Hodgkinson on Stoicism

Michael Knowles & Sohrab Ahmari Will Pope Leo divide the Right?

The Econoclasts Europe’s trade war with China will backfire

John Burn-Murdoch Are smartphones causing the fertility crisis?

The Econoclasts The US-China conflict has changed

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Kathleen Stock

Mary Harrington

Aris Roussinos

Wolfgang Munchau

Yanis Varoufakis

Poppy Sowerby

Sohrab Ahmari

Michael Lind

Glenn Loury

Jonny Ball

Aaron Bastani

David Rose

Politics

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29.09 2025

Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

29.09 2025

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

29.09 2025

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

Spencer Pratt: Hollywood troll

Spencer Pratt: Hollywood troll

Frederick Kaufman

6 mins

Labourism isn’t working

Labourism isn’t working

David Skelton

7 mins

Adrian Wooldridge Why Labour should keep Starmer

Monday, 1 June Monday
1 Jun^st

Reaction 16:00

Has Labour lost the working class forever?

David Smith

Debate 12:45

Graham Platner proves that scandals no longer matter

Graham Platner proves that scandals no longer matter

Emily Jashinsky

Analysis 10:45

Europe’s new oil price caps won’t harm Russian economy

Jack Smith

Reaction 07:00

Netanyahu doesn’t want Trump to end the Iran war

Tom Rogan

Sunday, 31 May Sunday
31 May^st

Analysis 18:45

JD Vance remains Trump’s natural successor

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The Vice President will have to pick a side between the various portions of the Republican Party.

Sohrab Ahmari

Debate 16:00

Sting is right about the roots of toxic masculinity

Dustin Guastella

Reaction 12:30

Nicola Sturgeon is fooling nobody by playing the sexism card

Nicola Sturgeon is fooling nobody by playing the sexism card

Josephine Bartosch

Analysis 08:00

A snap election would be disastrous for Kemi Badenoch

Peter Franklin

Tony Blair’s comeback will fail

Labour

Tony Blair’s comeback will fail Radical centrism doesn’t work

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

1 Jun 2026 - 12:04am

Germany just played into Trump’s hands

Germany just played into Trump’s hands

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Our Mission

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The year of cosmic shock

The year of cosmic shock We’re living through a new Copernican Revolution

Sohrab Ahmari and Matthew Gasda

5 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:20am

Saturday, 30 May Saturday
30 May^th

Reaction 16:00

Peter Thiel won’t find a safe haven in Argentina

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The country’s Peronist opposition makes California look as business-friendly as Dubai.

Nick Burns

Debate 12:00

Recruiting young unemployed people won’t fix Britain’s army

Chris Bayliss

Reaction 08:00

Starmer can’t escape New Labour

Lee David Evans

Friday, 29 May Friday
29 May^th

Explainer 16:00

America’s tourism slump will outlast the World Cup

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 13:00

Neet crisis is downstream of therapy culture

Neet crisis is downstream of therapy culture

Stella O'Malley

Reaction 10:00

Is this the end of Pedro Sánchez?

Miquel Vila

Debate 07:00

Keir Starmer is turning online safety into a moral panic

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As young people’s lives become increasingly constrained, the internet remains dazzlingly infinite.

Aiden Abbott

UK

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26.04 2026

Zack Polanski is repeating the fiction of Scottish victimhood

25.10 2025

Britain’s shoplifting crisis is spiralling out of control

30.09 2025

NHS support for cousin marriage is a betrayal of women

The Gospel according to Blair

The Gospel according to Blair

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Why should Britain rescue an enemy?

Why should Britain rescue an enemy?

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

Julie Bindel & Buck Angel Strange Bedfellows

Thursday, 28 May Thursday
28 May^th

News 18:30

Elite college faculty donations skew heavily Left

James Billot

Debate 16:15

Hampshire rape case is a stain on Britain’s liberal judges

Hampshire rape case is a stain on Britain’s liberal judges

Dominic Adler

Explainer 10:00

Western leaders are in denial about Ukraine’s war losses

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This war will continue until Putin concludes he has more to gain from peace than continued fighting.

Wolfgang Munchau

Analysis 07:00

Rachel Reeves’s ‘Buy British’ plan is fantasy economics

Andrew O'Brien

Wednesday, 27 May Wednesday
27 May^th

Debate 16:00

Tony Blair’s essay attacks the problems Blairism created

Tony Blair’s essay attacks the problems Blairism created

Philip Cunliffe

Online 13:00

Social media has pushed teenage boys towards chatbot romances

Kristina Murkett

Reaction 10:00

Birmingham, not Manchester, is Britain’s second city

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Cultural divisions have, in recent years, acquired a political edge.

Richard Vinen

Debate 07:00

Labour’s women problem is worse than Jess Phillips thinks

Labour’s women problem is worse than Jess Phillips thinks

Joan Smith

Burnham won’t quell England’s revolt

Burnham won’t quell England’s revolt He’s a provincial Sadiq Khan

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:20am

The Econoclasts Starmer shares Europe’s fatal flaw

Today’s eerie echoes of the First World War

Today’s eerie echoes of the First World War

Odd Arne Westad

Odd Arne Westad

US

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07.11 2025

What Nvidia’s Jensen Huang won’t say about the AI race

28.09 2025

Scott Bessent’s warning is clear: Europe must defend itself

27.09 2025

Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to America’s oligarchs

Tim Cook’s rotten Apple

Tim Cook’s rotten Apple

Patrick McGee

4 mins

The twilight of America’s sky knights

The twilight of America’s sky knights

Malcom Kyeyune

11 mins

Ian Leslie & Helen Thompson The Beatles: How did they do it?

What Versace learned from Rome

What Versace learned from Rome Vulgarity is glorious

John Banville

12 mins

30 May 2026 - 12:15am

Tuesday, 26 May Tuesday
26 May^th

Reaction 16:15

Pope Leo’s encyclical fails to challenge the AI threat

Dan Hitchens

Debate 13:00

H-1B visas are tearing Silicon Valley apart

Antonio de Loera-Brust

Analysis 10:00

Trump’s push to expand Abraham Accords is delusional

Trump’s push to expand Abraham Accords is delusional

Kyle Orton

Online 07:00

Farage’s feud with Elon Musk is dividing the Right

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Reform’s grip on the Right — even if the Conservative Party’s decline is terminal — is far from guaranteed.

Samuel Rubinstein

Monday, 25 May Monday
25 May^th

Analysis 16:00

SpaceX IPO will bolster America’s tech supremacy

Joel Kotkin

Reaction 12:00

Reform UK’s tax cuts promise is a sign of political immaturity

Peter Franklin

Analysis 08:00

Fraying Russia-Iran ties were inevitable

Fraying Russia-Iran ties were inevitable

Bethany Elliott

Europe

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28.04 2026

Friedrich Merz’s Iran intervention won’t discourage Trump

25.03 2026

EU realignment is a betrayal of Labour’s purpose

08.03 2026

Zelensky-Orbán spat threatens Ukraine EU accession

Welcome to the age of uncertainty

Welcome to the age of uncertainty

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

Why the US economy beats Europe

Why the US economy beats Europe

Michael Lind

8 mins

The Econoclasts Germany just played into Trump’s hands

Sunday, 24 May Sunday
24 May^th

Debate 16:00

It is absurd to condemn Charles Dickens as racist

Philip Hensher

Reaction 12:00

Why are so many MPs suffering from burnout?

Adam James Pollock

Debate 08:00

BBC needs more than a ‘sat nav’ to root out bias

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This stubborn refusal to confront reality is precisely why the BBC has been unable to escape the trap it created.

Andrew Doyle

Saturday, 23 May Saturday
23 May^rd

Analysis 16:00

Why Andy Burnham needs Shabana Mahmood

Rakib Ehsan

Reaction 12:00

Tulsi Gabbard resignation marks the end of America First foreign policy

Tulsi Gabbard resignation marks the end of America First foreign policy

Michael Cuenco

Debate 08:00

Trans report shows how far Amnesty UK has fallen

Janet Murray

The plot for a British caliphate

The plot for a British caliphate The Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated society

Ben Cobley

17 mins

29 May 2026 - 12:03am

Odd Arne Westad Today’s eerie echoes of the First World War

Don’t be fooled by the UAE bailout

Don’t be fooled by the UAE bailout

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Culture

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15.02 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

10.01 2026

Banning X will not make anyone safer

11.12 2025

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label

Why aristocrats are funny

Why aristocrats are funny

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

How to end the Age of Slop

How to end the Age of Slop

Louis Elton

12 mins

The Econoclasts Don’t be fooled by the UAE bailout

It’s time to bring back Blair

Labour

It’s time to bring back Blair Centrist dads, rejoice

Samuel Rubinstein

7 mins

28 May 2026 - 12:03am

Friday, 22 May Friday
22 May^nd

Explainer 18:00

Trump’s Castro indictment will turn screws on Cuban regime

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Cuba faces a binary choice between Venezuela-style negotiated submission or outright systemic collapse.

Tom Rogan

Analysis 15:00

Makerfield is a lost cause for the Greens

John Oxley

Online 12:30

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens are united by grievance politics

Hunter Biden and Candace Owens are united by grievance politics

Gavin Haynes

Review 10:00

Stephen Colbert represented the worst of establishment liberalism

David Masciotra

Analysis 07:00

Looming Israeli election may spell the end for Netanyahu

David Swift

Thursday, 21 May Thursday
21 May^st

Explainer 16:00

UK net migration drop has only just begun

UK net migration drop has only just begun

James Bowes

Analysis 12:30

‘Teen takeovers’ reflect breakdown of adult authority

Santiago Vidal Calvo

Reaction 10:40

UK’s easing of Russian oil sanctions was unavoidable

Chris Bayliss

Analysis 07:00

Labour risks sacrificing the centre to chase the Left

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The wiser approach is to treat the Green wave less as a threat than an opportunity to consolidate.

Renie Anjeh

War

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13.04 2026

Does Kemi Badenoch understand Britain’s military dysfunction?

20.03 2026

US is spending $2 billion a day on Iran war

14.03 2026

Poll: majority of Britons think World War III likely in next decade

Israel can’t kill the Hezbollah hydra

Israel can’t kill the Hezbollah hydra

Mitchell Prothero

5 mins

Nato is a dangerous grift

Nato is a dangerous grift

Thomas Fazi

9 mins

The Econoclasts Europe is sleepwalking into industrial irrelevance

Wednesday, 20 May Wednesday
20 May^th

News 18:30

Pro-Palestine activists turn on Sally Rooney

Pro-Palestine activists turn on Sally Rooney

Archie Earle

Reaction 16:30

Making Washington DC beautiful shouldn’t be political

Nicholas Boys Smith

Analysis 10:00

Germany’s centrists are driving the rise of the AfD

Peter Franklin

Debate 07:00

Married at First Sight scandal should be the end of reality TV

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It’s a bit like turning the Stanford prison experiment into a TV show.

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, 19 May Tuesday
19 May^th

Reaction 18:30

Decline of ‘dad books’ is a crisis of cultural inheritance

Decline of ‘dad books’ is a crisis of cultural inheritance

Matthew Gasda

News 17:00

Grooming gangs inquiry chair: authorities were ‘squeamish’ about race

Rob Lownie

Factcheck 15:00

Are smartphones really to blame for declining birth rates?

Deborah Cohen and Peter Tennant

Explainer 12:30

AOC is no Bernie Sanders

AOC is no Bernie Sanders

Michael Baharaeen

Reaction 10:00

Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall sale harms the monarchy

Niall Gooch

Analysis 07:00

Jordan Bardella eases Europe’s fears about the French Right

Francois Valentin

Alexander Dugin versus Sydney Sweeney

Alexander Dugin versus Sydney Sweeney Putin’s philosopher despises Western decadence

Richard Godwin

11 mins

27 May 2026 - 12:03am

UnHerd Academy Nina Allan on J. G. Ballard

Iran left Trump with no alternative

Iran left Trump with no alternative

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Faith

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26.09 2025

Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

23.09 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

22.09 2025

Charlie Kirk funeral fuses Christian mercy with MAGA populism

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

John Hooper

7 mins

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Susan Pickard

6 mins

The Econoclasts Hormuz and the end of petro-dollar hegemony

Why Europe keeps losing

Tariffs

Why Europe keeps losing China has a stranglehold on trade

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

26 May 2026 - 12:03am

Monday, 18 May Monday
18 May^th

Debate 18:15

Matt Walsh is promoting junk Civil Rights history

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His inaccurate assertion about ‘playacting’ serves to cast doubt on the evils of segregation.

Sohrab Ahmari

Reaction 11:50

First US detransition clinic risks becoming a political tool

Lisa Selin Davis

Debate 09:30

Sandra Hüller is wrong about German guilt

Sandra Hüller is wrong about German guilt

Ralph Leonard

Reaction 07:00

Labour cannot escape Britain’s debt spiral

John Rapley

Sunday, 17 May Sunday
17 May^th

Debate 17:00

Modern cruises have stripped travel of its adventure

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They are an ocean full of boredom-management possibilities.

Richard Crampton-Platt

Dispatch 13:30

Who are Wes Streeting’s people?

Felix Pope

Dispatch 08:00

Unite the Kingdom marks dawn of Right-wing Omnicause

Unite the Kingdom marks dawn of Right-wing Omnicause

Cosmo Adair

Society

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29.09 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

28.09 2025

The WHO’s anti-alcohol campaign is a war against joy

25.09 2025

ICE shooting doesn’t herald a new era of Left-wing violence

Inside the capture of the BBC

Inside the capture of the BBC

Rob Burley

38 mins

Has the Met learned from John Worboys?

Has the Met learned from John Worboys?

Julie Bindel

5 mins

Aris Roussinos Orbán’s defeat is not a liberal victory

Saturday, 16 May Saturday
16 May^th

Analysis 20:15

Trump’s Poland troop withdrawal will benefit Europe

Michal Kranz

Online 16:00

Confessions of a Starmtrooper

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The People’s Prime Minister, the People’s Keir, is beset by snakes on all sides.

Samuel Rubinstein

Debate 13:00

Antiracism is poisoning British policing

Antiracism is poisoning British policing

Dominic Adler

News 08:00

BBC is full of ‘progressive madness’, says former news chief

Archie Earle

Friday, 15 May Friday
15 May^th

Analysis 18:00

Iran war is eroding American power in Asia

Tom Rogan

News 16:00

Reform UK donors dominate rich list

Reform UK donors dominate rich list

UnHerd Staff

Debate 13:00

Giggle v. Tickle ruling will galvanise Australia’s sex-realists

Josephine Bartosch

Analysis 10:00

Ed Miliband’s North Sea shutdown is economic vandalism

Kathryn Porter

Explainer 07:00

British politics is turning into the Premier League

British politics is turning into the Premier League

Jonathan Wilson

Elegy for the Royal Navy

Defence

Elegy for the Royal Navy Britain has gone down with its ships

Peter Hitchens

7 mins

25 May 2026 - 12:03am

Dr. Iain McGilchrist How to escape Left-brain thinking

The delusion of Iranian regime change

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts