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Iceland has exposed Europe's unity illusion

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Wednesday, September 2 Wednesday
Sep 2^nd

News 18:30

New York City declares that race is a social construct

UnHerd Staff

Online 16:30

Sydney Sweeney is blurring the line between Hollywood and OnlyFans

Sydney Sweeney is blurring the line between Hollywood and OnlyFans

Nikos Mohammadi

Debate 12:30

Democrats are gym bros now

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Democrats have come to a belated realisation: men are a fairly important constituency.

James Billot

Reaction 10:00

Modi’s Ukraine rebuke shows Putin is losing his friends

Bethany Elliott

Tuesday, September 1 Tuesday
Sep 1^st

Analysis 18:15

Dan Driscoll resignation shows Iran war is unsustainable

Dan Driscoll resignation shows Iran war is unsustainable

Daniel L. Davis

Reaction 16:00

Stella Lefty is country music’s slopulist future

Ryan Zickgraf

Online 12:15

The Right’s attacks on Abdul El-Sayed reek of desperation

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The GOP has been forced to trade a young, multiracial populist coalition for tired messaging.

Sohrab Ahmari

Analysis 10:45

The Greens’ trans sport proposal is not a fringe idea

The Greens’ trans sport proposal is not a fringe idea

Josephine Bartosch

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Can Team Trump save Western Civ?

Can Team Trump save Western Civ? They have a guy at the State Department for that

Valerie Stivers

12 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:00am

Get ready for the Trump Slump

Get ready for the Trump Slump

John Rapley

6 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Nepal’s clean energy curse

Nepal’s clean energy curse

Pratinav Anil

7 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Get ready for the Trump Slump

Economy

Get ready for the Trump Slump Iran strikes could burst the AI bubble

John Rapley

6 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Nepal’s clean energy curse

Nepal’s clean energy curse It is the poor in harm’s way

Pratinav Anil

7 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Get ready for the Trump Slump

Get ready for the Trump Slump Iran strikes could burst the AI bubble

John Rapley

6 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Nepal’s clean energy curse

Nepal’s clean energy curse It is the poor in harm’s way

Pratinav Anil

7 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

From the UK edition

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Labour has no answer to Britain’s prisons crisis

Ian Acheson

Wednesday, September 2 Wednesday
Sep 2^nd

Debate 07:00

Starmer’s seat could become a nightmare for Burnham

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, September 1 Tuesday
Sep 1^st

Debate 07:00

Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle has to break the Tory Nimby habit

James Sean Dickson

Monday, August 31 Monday
Aug 31^st

Debate 13:00

The hidden rationale behind James Cleverly’s London mayoral bid

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Cleverly is rolling the dice on his own, and the Conservatives’, political future in the capital.

Lee David Evans

Analysis 08:00

Middlesbrough is a symptom of Britain’s broken policing system

Middlesbrough is a symptom of Britain’s broken policing system

Dominic Adler

Thursday, August 27 Thursday
Aug 27^th

Online 10:00

Don’t cancel ‘The Rest is History’ over Gary Lineker

George Owers

Wednesday, August 26 Wednesday
Aug 26^th

Reaction 16:00

The Greens are dangerously wrong about Tasers

David Matthews

Tuesday, August 25 Tuesday
Aug 25^th

Reaction 07:00

Britain’s mounting debt is a warning for Labour

Andrew O'Brien

Monday, August 24 Monday
Aug 24^th

Reaction 07:00

New Henry Nowak revelations fuel the Right’s distrust of police

Dominic Adler

Sunday, August 23 Sunday
Aug 23^rd

Reaction 08:00

Reform UK has forgotten Thatcherism’s original purpose

James Sean Dickson

How Domesday made modern England

Conquest

How Domesday made modern England The Norman book records an apartheid state

Max Adams

8 mins

Sep 3 2026 - 12:03am

Andy Burnham meets reality

Andy Burnham meets reality His radical agenda will soon be shelved

Jonny Ball

5 mins

Sep 2 2026 - 12:03am

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project The “Genesis Mission” will start a scientific revolution

Pippa Malmgren

8 mins

Sep 2 2026 - 12:01am

How the Euro elite helps Trump

How the Euro elite helps Trump They are more obedient than the Right

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Sep 1 2026 - 12:03am

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The Econoclasts Iceland has exposed Europe’s unity illusion

The Econoclasts America is spiralling towards a debt crisis

Simon Sebag Montefiore What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Richard D. Wolff The decline of the US empire

The Econoclasts Wealth taxes won’t fix Europe

Politics

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07.22 2026

Are Britain’s prisons beyond saving?

06.29 2026

Andy Burnham’s devolution drive is hollow

06.27 2026

How Andy Burnham cracked vibes politics

Local councils are worse than you think

Local councils are worse than you think

Anonymous Data Scientist

8 mins

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Meet the Leftist radicals taking on Meloni

Tobias Jones

10 mins

Ron Paul The US bailout machine is spiralling

Monday, August 31 Monday
Aug 31^st

Reaction 19:30

Will Rupert Lowe push the British Right away from Israel?

David Swift

Analysis 17:00

Democrats are still stumped on gender issues

Democrats are still stumped on gender issues

Lisa Selin Davis

How Wendell Berry saved my life

Obituary

How Wendell Berry saved my life His dream of local liberty calls us to political action

Patrick Deneen

11 mins

Sep 2 2026 - 5:19am

Why hot people are Right-wing The beautiful inhabit a different reality

Turi Munthe

5 mins

Jul 2 2026 - 12:00am

Can Burnham banish Maggie's ghost? She’s the root of Labour’s woes

Jonny Ball

7 mins

May 25 2026 - 12:00am

Kathleen Stock The scandal of Jason Arday

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

Venezuela and Trump’s ‘Putinisation’ of America

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The man who made bin Laden

9/11 Anniversary

The man who made bin Laden Abu Musab al-Suri trailblazed the global jihad

Tam Hussein

6 mins

Sep 2 2026 - 12:02am

Inside the capture of the BBC How transgenderism killed impartiality

Rob Burley

38 mins

May 20 2026 - 12:02am

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America’s brain-rotting socialism debate

Economy

America’s brain-rotting socialism debate All modern economies are mixed

Michael Lind

9 mins

Sep 1 2026 - 12:00am

Sunday, August 30 Sunday
Aug 30^th

Online 16:00

Why is the online Right stigmatizing stay-at-home mothers?

Jenet Erickson

Explainer 13:00

The EU is heading for another existential crisis

Peter Franklin

Debate 08:00

Britain might finally have won the cheese war

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Protected-origin schemes are attractive because they wrap protectionism in agrarian romance.

Richard Crampton-Platt

Weekend Spotlight

The twilight of the intellectual dark web Heterodox thinkers have become circus acts

B. Duncan Moench

8 mins

May 9 2026 - 12:10am

On astonishment and angels Writers must learn to fly backwards

David Keenan

5 mins

Apr 10 2026 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts China’s hidden economic crisis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

2025: The West’s annus horribilis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project

AI is Trump’s Manhattan Project The “Genesis Mission” will start a scientific revolution

Pippa Malmgren

8 mins

Sep 2 2026 - 12:01am

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

Sophie Heawood

6 mins

Mar 23 2026 - 12:00am

Culture

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08.04 2026

Is the age of slop films coming to an end?

07.19 2026

Broadway is now a failing machine

02.15 2026

Wetherspoons can be one of Britain’s great cultural exports

Why you don’t really get Homer

Why you don’t really get Homer

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

6 mins

Argentina: World Cup villains

Argentina: World Cup villains

Nick Burns

5 mins

The Econoclasts Andy Burnham is misjudging Britain’s real crisis

Saturday, August 29 Saturday
Aug 29^th

Online 17:00

Milo Yiannopoulos: yesterday’s internet radical

Milo Yiannopoulos: yesterday’s internet radical

Oliver Bateman

Reaction 13:00

Funding Trident won’t solve Germany’s nuclear dilemma

Katja Hoyer

Analysis 08:00

Thames Water saga leaves Burnham with nowhere to hide

Thames Water saga leaves Burnham with nowhere to hide

Jack Smith

Friday, August 28 Friday
Aug 28^th

Debate 18:00

Democrats should not build bridges with the DSA

Michael Baharaeen

Online 16:00

Competing with YouTube will degrade the BBC

Timandra Harkness

Reaction 13:00

Russia does not want a war with Europe

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Moscow does not aim to test Nato’s resilience but to impose costs on Europe.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Analysis 10:30

Britain doesn’t have a grooming gang problem. It has a mafia problem

Mary Harrington

Debate 07:00

Canada-US trade war has exposed a Brexit double standard

Canada-US trade war has exposed a Brexit double standard

Richard Johnson

Hell is other Leftists

Cancel Culture 2.0

Hell is other Leftists Progressives waste energy destroying each other

Ryan Zickgraf

6 mins

Aug 31 2026 - 6:02pm

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

Michal Kranz

5 mins

Mar 5 2026 - 12:00am

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

Aris Roussinos

8 mins

Feb 28 2026 - 12:15am

Ross Barkan Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

Germany’s economic death trap

Germany’s economic death trap

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

How the Euro elite helps Trump

How the Euro elite helps Trump They are more obedient than the Right

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Sep 1 2026 - 12:03am

Secret societies

On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

9 mins

Feb 25 2026 - 12:02am

Science

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06.18 2026

Federal lawsuit could spell end of WPATH

11.25 2025

How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men

10.01 2025

Do we really want a world without mothers?

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

The Econoclasts The war on populism is backfiring

Inside the new Afghanistan

Inside the new Afghanistan Welcome to medieval modernity

David Patrikarakos

11 mins

Aug 30 2026 - 12:05am

Thursday, August 27 Thursday
Aug 27^th

Analysis 18:15

Faculty lounge language is downstream of Democrats’ real issue

Emily Jashinsky

Reaction 16:00

‘Prislam’ is radicalizing Britain’s inmates

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I saw Islamist groups offer prisoners protection in exchange for conversion.

Steve Gallant

Debate 13:00

Andy Burnham’s Israeli boycott is a bid to appease the Left

David Swift

Analysis 07:00

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

Ian Garner

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

Martin Shaw

7 mins

Feb 23 2026 - 12:00am

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

The Econoclasts The Ukraine turnaround is a media illusion

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

Greece’s lethal warning to Europe

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Milo Yiannopoulos’ horrible homecoming

Milo Yiannopoulos’ horrible homecoming Will he corrupt British politics?

Poppy Sowerby

7 mins

Sep 1 2026 - 12:02am

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

Alwyn Turner

6 mins

Jan 29 2026 - 12:00am

Faith

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07.05 2026

Christianity has made a return to the World Cup

09.26 2025

The Church of England is wrong to condemn migration protests

09.23 2025

Marriage is not just for the wealthy

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

Was Pope Leo elected to fight Trump?

John Hooper

7 mins

Jonathan Haidt Why the Right should support the social media ban

Wednesday, August 26 Wednesday
Aug 26^th

Debate 18:00

Stanley Druckenmiller’s AI use signals a bleak future for writing

Philip Hensher

Debate 13:15

Why is JK Rowling being smeared as a Holocaust denier?

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A generation of young people has been brainwashed into casually repeating blatant untruths.

Joan Smith

Reaction 10:00

Dolly Parton symbolized a vanishing America

Dolly Parton symbolized a vanishing America

Daniel Kalder

Analysis 07:00

Has Giorgia Meloni abandoned the populist Right?

William Nattrass

Tuesday, August 25 Tuesday
Aug 25^th

Explainer 18:00

Trump is sacrificing ranchers for cheaper beef

Garth Brown

Debate 16:20

Banning cousin marriage won’t make it disappear

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The British authorities have long since given up the authority to monitor who has children with whom.

Chris Bayliss

Explainer 13:15

Why is Abdul El-Sayed taking money from a Hamas-linked network?

Why is Abdul El-Sayed taking money from a Hamas-linked network?

Kyle Orton

Analysis 10:00

Mark Carney can win by walking away from a US trade deal

Michael Cuenco

Britain’s common-sense crisis

Britain’s common-sense crisis Progressives inhabit a different reality

Aris Roussinos

11 mins

Aug 29 2026 - 12:04am

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

Aris Roussinos

7 mins

Jan 24 2026 - 12:00am

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

Nikos Mohammadi

6 mins

Jan 3 2026 - 12:00am

Norman Finkelstein How Israel lost the Right

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The case for de-escalation with Russia

The case for de-escalation with Russia America is leading the way

Wolfgang Munchau

6 mins

Aug 31 2026 - 12:04am

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

Kathleen Stock

6 mins

Dec 26 2025 - 12:00am

War

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08.27 2026

How Westerners are lured into Russia’s army

08.08 2026

The Mecca pact could be a gift to Trump

07.31 2026

Will Hamas really surrender its weapons?

Somali pirates are back

Somali pirates are back

Rose George

6 mins

Trump can still win the Iran war

Trump can still win the Iran war

Edward Luttwak

5 mins

The Econoclasts The Brexit report is built on fake data

Have you corrected your racist robot?

Science Fiction

Have you corrected your racist robot? It’s Philip K. Dick’s world — we’re just living in it

Sohrab Ahmari

8 mins

Aug 29 2026 - 12:02am

Monday, August 24 Monday
Aug 24^th

Analysis 18:00

Why can’t the anti-war Left condemn Iran?

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The US and the West desperately need an anti-war Left that is normal and patriotic.

Sohrab Ahmari

Debate 16:00

Labour’s cigar crackdown is a war on pleasure

Richard Crampton-Platt

Reaction 12:30

In defense of the DSA’s champagne socialists

Ryan Zickgraf

Analysis 10:00

Putin is building a saboteur army across Europe

Putin is building a saboteur army across Europe

Bethany Elliott

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

Daniel Kalder

6 mins

Nov 14 2025 - 12:00am

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

Valerie Stivers

7 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

The Econoclasts Europe’s rigged energy market is killing innovation

Europe’s identity crisis

Europe’s identity crisis

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

The summer of Idiossey

The summer of Idiossey Why are we still talking about this stupid film?

Geoff Dyer

5 mins

Aug 31 2026 - 12:00am

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

Michael Lind

6 mins

Oct 23 2025 - 12:00am

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

Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument

Suicide is a tragedy, not an argument

Samuel Rubinstein

6 mins

Dunwich is enchanted England

Dunwich is enchanted England

Mary Harrington

6 mins

The Econoclasts Starmer’s fall exposes the West’s leadership crisis

Sunday, August 23 Sunday
Aug 23^rd

Explainer 19:00

The same-name trick that could hand Democrats the Senate

John Masko

Analysis 16:30

California’s green agenda is putting its future at risk

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The state’s climate crusade is widening the divide between the haves and have-nots.

Joel Kotkin

Explainer 13:00

Bare Expectations is more Dickensian than you think

Bare Expectations is more Dickensian than you think

Cosmo Adair

Saturday, August 22 Saturday
Aug 22^nd

Debate 17:00

Why is the US government meddling in the Nathan Cofnas affair?

John Sailer

Explainer 13:00

The eurozone crisis is a warning to America

The eurozone crisis is a warning to America

Wolfgang Munchau

How Tarot re-enchanted my life

Weekend Reading

How Tarot re-enchanted my life The cards can save us from spiritual asphyxiation

Rob Doyle

6 mins

Aug 29 2026 - 12:01am

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 triumph of Brexitball Our football style has followed politics

Jonathan Wilson

7 mins

Oct 10 2025 - 12:00am

Jake Sullivan Trump has handed Iran victory

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

Trump’s Ukraine peace plan

The Econoclasts

The Econoclasts

Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved

Mark Zuckerberg got what he deserved The time-thief’s monopoly must end

Richard Godwin

8 mins

Aug 28 2026 - 12:03am

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

Michal Kranz

11 mins

Sep 21 2025 - 12:10am