James Billot

is UnHerd's Newsroom editor.

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David Sacks: how US involvement in Ukraine backfired The venture capitalist made an arresting speech in Washington DC

07 Mar 2024

NYT: Trump support among black voters grows nearly 500% The former president is chipping away at a staunchly Democrat voter bloc

03 Mar 2024

News round-up: Google bias, Bill Ackman & British academia fightback

23 Feb 2024

News round-up: failing sanctions, DEI, & CPAC merch

22 Feb 2024

News round-up: RFK Jr’s fickle voters, ‘racist’ Google AI & David Irving

21 Feb 2024

News round-up: Irish censorship, work-shy Zoomers & The Resistance

20 Feb 2024

Ezra Klein: another Democrat calls for Biden to step down The New York Times columnist argued there were better options

18 Feb 2024

News round-up: Israel poll, Elon Musk & a $50,000 scam

16 Feb 2024

News round-up: Biden on TikTok, London’s train names & Tucker’s Moscow love-in

15 Feb 2024

News round-up: Military rule, Princeton defends DEI & US jobs growth

14 Feb 2024

News round-up: UK farmer protests, Labour loses Muslim support & Harvard’s hunger strike

13 Feb 2024

PM round-up: Kanye West, RFK Jr. & Edinburgh’s new gender-critical rector

12 Feb 2024

PM Update: Tucker meets Vlad, gender critical court win & Piers Morgan

09 Feb 2024

Newsroom update: South America’s new Caesar, Palantir, and Taylor Swift

08 Feb 2024

Newsroom update: Popcons, Tucker in Moscow and are the farmers winning?

06 Feb 2024

News update: Cowboy Zuckerberg, chaos in Ecuador and AOC

10 Jan 2024

The media is trying to make Kamala Harris happen again Friendly publications are giving the Vice President another shot

26 Oct 2023

Euthanasia responsible for 4.1% of all Canadian deaths in 2022 A new report finds that 13,241 people died under the country's MAiD programme

25 Oct 2023

Sumption: it’s not illegal to chant for Palestine The Home Secretary is talking nonsense, says the former Supreme Court Justice

22 Oct 2023

Only 9% of Labour voters sympathise with Israel over Palestine A new poll finds low levels of support for the Jewish state in Keir Starmer's party

17 Oct 2023

Free Speech tsar: I will be ‘viewpoint-neutral’ Arif Ahmed promised to protect lawful free speech

09 Oct 2023

Nato official: Ukraine could cede territory to join alliance Stian Jenssen made the controversial proposal in Norway this week

15 Aug 2023

Conservative academics more likely to self-censor New research shows that free speech in academia is heavily skewed

29 Jul 2023

Is Europe going cold on Net Zero? The EU and UK appear less firmly committed to net neutrality by 2050

06 Jul 2023

Hispanic approval of Joe Biden at record low Nearly two-thirds of this demographic disapprove of the President

23 Jun 2023

Janet Yellen: expect a slow decline in US dollar dominance The Treasury Secretary said that sanctions have undermined the dollar

15 Jun 2023

Jack Dorsey: the reason I’m backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Twitter's founder said that he was drawn to the Democrat's anti-war position

12 Jun 2023

Fiona Hill: Pax Americana is over The former presidential advisor suggested that US hegemony is no more

27 May 2023

Publisher to retract paper on ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ The grounds for its retrospective rejection have been described as 'flimsy'

24 May 2023

Majority of Americans don’t trust the FBI A new poll finds that voters believe the agency requires wide-ranging reform

22 May 2023

BuzzFeed plans to generate most of its articles from AI The embattled company told investors it is putting its hopes in technology

19 May 2023

One in four Canadians supports euthanasia on grounds of poverty A significant minority wants to extend the assisted dying programme

09 May 2023

Academics punished for speech soars over last three years A new report finds a surge in sanctions against professors

21 Apr 2023

Christine Lagarde: the world is turning multipolar The ECB President warned that the tectonic plates of geopolitics are shifting

17 Apr 2023

Farmer protests sweep across Eastern Europe Anger over cheap Ukrainian imports is spilling onto the streets

14 Apr 2023

One in ten Democrats supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr The anti-vaccine activist is second only to Joe Biden among party candidates

12 Apr 2023

How Nature journal hurt Trump supporters’ trust in science A new study shows that endorsing Biden had a polarising effect on its readership

21 Mar 2023

Alastair Campbell: I wish Iraq had never happened Tony Blair's former press secretary came close to expressing regret

17 Mar 2023

Norway’s top epidemiologist: Sweden handled Covid well Preben Aavitsland says its response was unfairly demonised

16 Mar 2023

Ron DeSantis’s mysterious position on Ukraine Is the Florida Governor a hawk in dove's clothing?

14 Mar 2023

The anti-ESG backlash has begun The campaign is gathering momentum in Republican states

03 Mar 2023

Bank of England Deputy Governor: digital pound is ‘likely’ Sir Jon Cunliffe told MPs that Britcoin could be on the way

01 Mar 2023

Tony Blair calls for new front against Russia in Africa The former Prime Minister points to Wagner Group activities in the Sahel

24 Feb 2023

Western public support for Ukraine is falling New polls show that war fatigue may be setting in

20 Feb 2023

Elections in Europe: Olaf Scholz humiliated, Giorgia Meloni soars Three elections, two wildly different results

14 Feb 2023

New report investigates the emotional life of incels This poorly understood community is about more than sexual rejection

09 Feb 2023

Sports cardiologist: ‘no increase in cardiac arrests among athletes’ Dr Jonathan Drezner has access to the only dataset that might settle the question

07 Feb 2023

College-educated whites dominate the Democratic Party Will their progressive agenda alienate other racial groups?

03 Feb 2023

Giorgia Meloni’s latest cheerleader: The Economist The publication's initial fears about the leader never materialised

31 Jan 2023

Dominic Cummings: ‘The Deep State is real’ Officials are in control, says the former adviser, and that's often a good thing

27 Jan 2023

What’s the truth about casualty numbers in Ukraine? Inaccurate and piecemeal information has been a fixture of this war

25 Jan 2023

Henry Kissinger: Why I changed my mind about Ukraine The statesman believes the country should now join NATO

18 Jan 2023

A fifth of Americans approve of the Jan 6 Capitol takeover The proportion is more than double that of two years ago

10 Jan 2023

New evidence confirms the Blob’s hawkishness Proximity to Washington leads to more support for military intervention

16 Dec 2022

Why did Slate change its Covid headline? The article's title was gradually watered down

06 Dec 2022

Hybrid attacks on the rise across Europe Multiple acts of sabotage have taken place on key infrastructure

26 Oct 2022

Russia realists are the new lockdown sceptics

10 Oct 2022

Joe Rogan tells Americans to vote Republican The comedian criticised the Democrats' stringent Covid policies on his podcast

29 Aug 2022

Reports on Ukrainian corruption start to resurface Western outlets and politicians are becoming more strident in their criticism

08 Aug 2022

Amnesty attacked for critical report on Ukraine Pro-Ukraine voices have come out in force to denounce the organisation

04 Aug 2022

Wikipedia takes cue from White House and re-defines ‘recession’ Any mention of two negative consecutive quarters has now been scrubbed

29 Jul 2022

Ibram X. Kendi: I taught antiracism to my one-year-old The activist came to London to share parenting tips

05 Jul 2022

Hillary Clinton: Battle with Trump is ‘unfinished business’ Is the Democrat angling for a third run?

20 Jun 2022

America’s campus wars come to Cambridge The university is going down a dangerous path

16 Jun 2022

Jared Polis: The weirdest Democrat in America Colorado's heterodox governor expertly avoids the culture wars

13 Jun 2022

Oren Cass: the fight is over on the Left Like the Labour Party, the Democrats have given up on the working class

24 May 2022

The Squad nowhere to be seen as Ukraine package sails through AOC, Ilhan Omar and others have been curiously silent on the issue

13 May 2022

What’s going on in Quebec? The French Canadian province has gone in an increasingly authoritarian direction

21 Jan 2022

The roots of Novak Djokovic’s vaccine hesitancy The athlete's worldview was built from a lifetime of politics and faith

11 Jan 2022

Adam McKay: another satirist lost to activism His latest film's agenda is painfully obvious

27 Dec 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse: the latest Right-wing celebrity The acquitted shooter joins a long line of accidental political pin-ups

22 Dec 2021

Green shoots of common sense at the New York Times Is the Gray Lady aiming to produce more balanced content?

18 Nov 2021

Barack Obama gives up on a united America The former president has given up any pretence of a post-partisan USA

25 Oct 2021

Anger and resignation at Green Pass protests in Italy Protestors at this weekend's demonstrations in Milan had little hope

18 Oct 2021

How Fox News conquered America

07 Oct 2021

Norm Macdonald: the only comedian to survive Trump He managed to outlive the great death of comedy of the post-2016 era

15 Sep 2021

How judges are weaponising vaccines The criminal justice system turns to public health concerns

01 Sep 2021

The Greens choose trans over trees The party's relentless focus on identity issues will come at an electoral cost

12 Aug 2021

Joe Biden is more Ronald Reagan than FDR Both have bumbling, grandfatherly public personas, which they use to full effect

20 May 2021

How Democrats can increase support among moderates New research shows that even their own voters don't like it

29 Apr 2021

You can’t cure racism

28 Apr 2021

Cameron and Blair united against extremism? What could go wrong? The two former PMs have given their blessing to a new terrorism report

24 Feb 2021

If even David Icke fans aren’t anti-vaxxers… A report on high levels of vaccine hesitancy inadvertently shows the opposite

18 Feb 2021

Lockdown scepticism is not Euroscepticism repackaged New research presents an entirely different picture

10 Feb 2021

Michael Gove’s three point plan for tackling wokeness Channelling Sir Roger Scruton, the minister offered some sage advice

18 Jan 2021

After Twitter, where will Donald Trump go next? He has a number of options, none of which are perfect

11 Jan 2021

Will the New York Times commission Senator Cotton now? The Republican is sticking to his law and order message

07 Jan 2021

Was Donald Trump saying goodbye? The much-discussed mute button wasn't needed at the final Presidential debate

23 Oct 2020

Briefing: what are Kanye West’s politics? The rapper has tweeted that he is running for president

06 Jul 2020

How cartoons survived the great awokening

01 May 2020

The Groypers’ new battleground: TikTok The American far-Right youth movement is targeting Zoomers

22 Apr 2020

A handy Encyclopedia of Social Justice A new site attempts to translate all those woke words you hear so often

16 Mar 2020

Trevor Phillips: Islamophobia has been warped by ‘orcs’ The man who popularised the term expressed his dismay at what its come to mean

12 Mar 2020

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

06 Mar 2020

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

04 Mar 2020

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

26 Feb 2020

Andrew Yang, the ‘think outside the box’ candidate The geeky former tech executive has a unique bipartisan appeal

03 Feb 2020

Blair Jr campaigns against the university model of Blair Snr Euan Blair has some different ideas from his father

30 Jan 2020

The Joe Rogan endorsement is a big win for Bernie Critics of the YouTube star overlook his anti-establishment appeal

24 Jan 2020