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Tuesday, May 19 Tuesday
May 19^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

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

Monday, May 18 Monday
May 18^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

Analysis 16:15

Aipac may defeat Thomas Massie, but it has lost GOP war

Oliver Bateman

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

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Algo killed the new-media star

Algo killed the new-media star Buzzfeed & co. put their trust in Big Tech

Richard A. Greenwald

8 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:00am

Why Iran is right to be paranoid

Why Iran is right to be paranoid

Peter Frankopan

10 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:04am

Why Brexit is back

Why Brexit is back

Mary Harrington

6 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:03am

Why Iran is right to be paranoid

WAR

Why Iran is right to be paranoid Outsiders have interfered for centuries

Peter Frankopan

10 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:04am

Why Brexit is back

Why Brexit is back Labour still doesn’t get the revolution

Mary Harrington

6 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:03am

Why Iran is right to be paranoid

Why Iran is right to be paranoid Outsiders have interfered for centuries

Peter Frankopan

10 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:04am

Why Brexit is back

Why Brexit is back Labour still doesn’t get the revolution

Mary Harrington

6 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:03am

From the UK edition

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Tuesday, May 19 Tuesday
May 19^th

News 17:00

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

Rob Lownie

Sunday, May 17 Sunday
May 17^th

Dispatch 13:30

Who are Wes Streeting’s people?

Felix Pope

Friday, May 15 Friday
May 15^th

Analysis 10:00

Ed Miliband’s North Sea shutdown is economic vandalism

Kathryn Porter

Tuesday, May 12 Tuesday
May 12^th

Analysis 07:00

Steel nationalization won’t save Starmer

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, May 11 Monday
May 11^th

Explainer 07:00

Will the stalking horse bring down Starmer?

Lee David Evans

Saturday, May 9 Saturday
May 9^th

Reaction 08:00

Scottish election results are a blow to the Union

Iain Macwhirter

Thursday, May 7 Thursday
May 7^th

Debate 16:00

Shabana Mahmood’s push to widen legal refugee routes will backfire

Chris Bayliss

Explainer 06:55

Neither Reform nor the Greens can save Britain’s councils

Jack Shaw

Wednesday, May 6 Wednesday
May 6^th

Debate 16:00

Why Zack Polanski isn’t another Corbyn

Why Zack Polanski isn’t another Corbyn

Peter Franklin

Explainer 07:00

Is Malcom Offord a first minister in waiting?

Philip Patrick

What tech bros learned from ESPN

What tech bros learned from ESPN True fans always want more

Alys Key

5 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:01am

The scandal of two-tier degrees

The scandal of two-tier degrees Extra time infantilizes students

Paul Sagar

7 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:01am

Andy Burnham’s economic fallacy

Andy Burnham’s economic fallacy He should stick with Rachel Reeves

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:03am

Inside the capture of the BBC

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:02am

Watch & listen

Julie Bindel & Buck Angel Strange Bedfellows

Adrian Wooldridge Why Labour should keep Starmer

The Econoclasts Starmer shares Europe’s fatal flaw

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

The Econoclasts Germany just played into Trump’s hands

Politics

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09.29 2025

Why Portland’s hipsters may secretly approve the National Guard

09.29 2025

Eric Adams exit won’t save Andrew Cuomo

09.29 2025

Gaza flotilla civil war shows the problem with the Omnicause

How Westminster broke local democracy

How Westminster broke local democracy

Michael Crick

4 mins

Friedrich Merz: Europe’s Wormtongue

Friedrich Merz: Europe’s Wormtongue

Wolfgang Munchau

5 mins

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

Sunday, May 17 Sunday
May 17^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 08:00

Unite the Kingdom marks dawn of Right-wing Omnicause

Unite the Kingdom marks dawn of Right-wing Omnicause

Cosmo Adair

How healthmaxxing saved my life

Gen Z

How healthmaxxing saved my life Institutional medicine has failed young women

Emily K. Sipiora

6 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:00am

Can SNL save British comedy? It has caught Donald Trump’s eye

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

Mar 23 2026 - 12:00am

Is this the end of Hezbollah? Lebanon is finally taking on the militia

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Don’t be fooled by the UAE bailout

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Trump is snatching the deep sea's riches

Critical minerals

Trump is snatching the deep sea's riches Britain must head for the frontier

Tom Ough

9 mins

May 19 2026 - 12:02am

How Gorton beat Denton The new politics is ethnic, not sectarian

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

Our Mission

When the herd takes off in one direction, what do you do?
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Labour’s battle of ideas

Labour’s battle of ideas Who can fix Britain’s broken economy?

Jonny Ball

8 mins

May 16 2026 - 12:10am

Saturday, May 16 Saturday
May 16^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

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

Why myths can save humanity Old stories fill our lives with dignity

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Europe is sleepwalking into industrial irrelevance

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How broken children became big business

How broken children became big business Vulnerable kids are dumped in illegal homes

Ian Birrell

7 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:02am

Suburban sadism

Lucy Letby’s trial by Netflix The former nurse is as banal as she is evil

Poppy Sowerby

4 mins

Feb 6 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

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02.15 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

01.10 2026

Banning X will not make anyone safer

12.11 2025

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label

North West’s stolen childhood

North West’s stolen childhood

Poppy Sowerby

5 mins

How Salford made modern Britain

How Salford made modern Britain

Terry Eagleton

6 mins

UnHerd Academy Nina Allan on J. G. Ballard

Friday, May 15 Friday
May 15^th

Analysis 18:00

Iran war is eroding American power in Asia

Tom Rogan

News 16:00

Is Reform UK now the party of billionaires?

Is Reform UK now the party of billionaires?

UnHerd Staff

Debate 13:00

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

Josephine Bartosch

Explainer 07:00

British politics is turning into the Premier League

British politics is turning into the Premier League

Jonathan Wilson

Thursday, May 14 Thursday
May 14^th

Reaction 18:00

Trump is falling into Xi’s trap on China visit

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Any concession on Taiwan would be a historic mistake.

Luke de Pulford

News 16:00

Birmingham City University to close Black Studies course

UnHerd Staff

Debate 13:00

Banning Unite the Kingdom speakers harms free speech

Jacob Mchangama

Analysis 10:00

Greggs: the true ambassador of British enterprise

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Tyneside may once have exported coal, ships and footballers. Now it exports snacks. But what snacks!

Dan Jackson

Analysis 07:00

Why the Labour Left fears Wes Streeting

Why the Labour Left fears Wes Streeting

Peter Franklin

How (not) to launch a Labour coup

weekend analysis

How (not) to launch a Labour coup Failure haunts the knife-wielders

Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

6 mins

May 16 2026 - 12:00am

Agatha Christie and the red scare Twenties crime capers were obsessed with communism

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

Britain's Atlantic subordination Our place in the world is clear

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Hormuz and the end of petro-dollar hegemony

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Inside the capture of the BBC

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:02am

Looksmaxxing is the new trans Clavicular’s cybertruck smashes conservative hope

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

Science

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11.25 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

10.01 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

09.30 2025

AI companions are destroying human relationships

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Tim Cook's rotten Apple

Patrick McGee

4 mins

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

Robert Trivers: the last wild man of academia

John Maier

7 mins

Aris Roussinos Orbán’s defeat is not a liberal victory

The new epidemic of black youth violence

The new epidemic of black youth violence Liberal delusion costs lives

Alicia Nieves

7 mins

May 15 2026 - 12:00am

Wednesday, May 13 Wednesday
May 13^th

Debate 19:00

Do California Democrats have a CCP problem?

William Liang

Reaction 16:00

Zohran Mamdani’s NYC budget doesn’t add up

Seth Barron

Explainer 13:00

SARMs are the dark edge of youth fitness culture

SARMs are the dark edge of youth fitness culture

Josiah Gogarty

Analysis 10:30

Starmer’s downfall mirrors Johnson’s

Loic Fremond

Debate 07:00

Jess Phillips fell short as a champion for women

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Can a woman truly be an ally to other women if she can’t ‘see’ some predators?

Joan Smith

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

The futility of retiree protests Why let Trump ruin your retirement?

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

Dr. Iain McGilchrist How to escape Left-brain thinking

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

America is crumbling like Safavid Iran

America is crumbling like Safavid Iran The Safavids depended too much on their currency

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

May 18 2026 - 12:01am

What young Republicans are telling us Racial language-policing has failed

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Faith

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09.26 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

09.23 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

09.22 2025

Charlie Kirk funeral fuses Christian mercy with MAGA populism

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Can we have the good without Good Friday?

Susan Pickard

6 mins

Will the Church of England rise again?

Will the Church of England rise again?

Tim Wyatt

12 mins

John Bolton Trump should finish the job

Tuesday, May 12 Tuesday
May 12^th

Analysis 18:45

Is Spencer Pratt the hero LA needs?

Is Spencer Pratt the hero LA needs?

Joel Kotkin

Explainer 16:00

The ‘beta mum’ trend is a new kind of virtue signaling

Valerie Stivers

Analysis 12:45

Reviving Biden’s foreign policy will doom the Democrats

Ben Burgis

Debate 10:00

Labour MPs don’t have a plan after Starmer

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What is conceivably gained by replacing him with Burnham, Streeting, or whoever emerges in the end?

Wolfgang Munchau

Monday, May 11 Monday
May 11^th

Reaction 18:00

Elliot Page as Achilles is not as far-fetched as it seems

Elliot Page as Achilles is not as far-fetched as it seems

Spencer A. Klavan

Explainer 16:00

Is Australia heading for a Reform-style insurgency?

Rocco Loiacono

Analysis 12:30

Starmer’s limp speech has sealed his fate

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The mutiny is in full swing now, and has gathered a momentum of its own.

Jonny Ball

Reaction 10:00

Putin has no intention of ending the Ukraine war

Bethany Elliott

Why plutocrats love Trump’s war

Iran

Why plutocrats love Trump’s war The base bleeds; the top feasts

Yanis Varoufakis

7 mins

May 14 2026 - 12:02am

Don’t mention the old World Wars Outdated analogies make bad foreign policy

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

Why Human Design is perfect for our age It’s religion for the LinkedIn class

Alexandra Jones

7 mins

Oct 13 2025 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Iran left Trump with no alternative

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The day the music critic died

weekend culture

The day the music critic died Pitchfork’s decline is bad for art

Sam Jennings

8 mins

May 16 2026 - 12:05am

The triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

Oct 10 2025 - 12:00am

War

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04.13 2026

Does Kemi Badenoch understand Britain’s military dysfunction?

03.20 2026

US is spending $2 billion a day on Iran war

03.14 2026

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

America has lost the will to fight

America has lost the will to fight

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

The uniparty media’s pro-war twins

The uniparty media’s pro-war twins

Nikos Mohammadi

5 mins

Debate: This house believes assisted dying is wrong

Britain is embarrassing itself

The Labour Coup

Britain is embarrassing itself America needs a functioning ally

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

May 13 2026 - 12:03am

Sunday, May 10 Sunday
May 10^th

Analysis 19:00

UniCredit Russia withdrawal weakens Germany’s hand

UniCredit Russia withdrawal weakens Germany’s hand

Jack Smith

Debate 16:00

Don’t blame Covid for violent young women

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There's a dark side of girl power, where women are rewarded for acting more aggressively.

Kristina Murkett

Debate 13:15

Brown and Starmer are trapped in a cargo cult of New Labour

Peter Franklin

Analysis 08:00

Labour collapse risks accelerating Birmingham’s decline

Rakib Ehsan

The Iron Lady who could save Venezuela

Ian Birrell

5 mins

Oct 9 2025 - 11:59pm

Trump’s monumentalistic aesthetic He wants to memorialize America's greatness

Adam Ellwanger and John J. Waters

6 mins

Sep 23 2025 - 12:01am

The Econoclasts Europe is about to get much weaker

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Book clubs are for phonies

Literacy Crisis

Book clubs are for phonies Good readers don’t relate to characters

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

May 15 2026 - 12:02am

Estonian opioids are heading for Britain Nitazenes are far deadlier than fentanyl

Michal Kranz

11 mins

Sep 21 2025 - 12:10am

Society

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09.29 2025

Did Trump’s Ryder Cup visit backfire?

09.28 2025

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

09.25 2025

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

London police’s rape blind spot

London police’s rape blind spot

Julie Bindel

5 mins

The invention of David Attenborough

The invention of David Attenborough

Samuel Rubinstein

8 mins

Major General Randy Manner Hegseth will be tried at The Hague

Saturday, May 9 Saturday
May 9^th

Reaction 19:00

Trump’s UFO files are victory for transparency

Trump’s UFO files are victory for transparency

Avi Loeb

Debate 16:00

Virginia Supreme Court decision is a blessing in disguise for Democrats

Michael Baharaeen

Explainer 13:00

How Labour lost its grip on Newcastle

Chris Middleton

Friday, May 8 Friday
May 8^th

Debate 18:30

Obama is a hypocrite to call out Trump’s justice record

Obama is a hypocrite to call out Trump’s justice record

Kyle Sammin

Explainer 16:30

Living funerals: a troubling consequence of secularization

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In the 21st-century West, there is no shortage of people telling us to love ourselves more.

Niall Gooch

Debate 13:15

Spain’s migration experiment is far from a success story

Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski

Factcheck 10:45

Hantavirus outbreak is not an omen for lockdowns

Ammad Butt

Reaction 07:30

Have these local elections killed the two-party system?

Have these local elections killed the two-party system?

John Oxley

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s purity trap

Millennial Leftism

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s purity trap Politics is a game of addition

Sohrab Ahmari

5 mins

May 12 2026 - 12:01am

Should philosophers take drugs? We must embrace the weirdness of the world

Justin Smith-Ruiu

8 mins

Sep 12 2025 - 12:00am

Faith

The war for China's soul Xi sees Christianity as spiritual opium

Christopher Harding

5 mins

Sep 1 2025 - 12:00am

Econoclasts Live: Who will dominate the New World Disorder?

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Why the New Right hates the King

Why the New Right hates the King Republicanism isn’t just for the Left

Rob Lownie

9 mins

May 15 2026 - 12:01am

Music

How Black Sabbath transcended Birmingham Heavy metal was forged in the Midlands

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Jul 3 2025 - 12:00am