12:10

Do Leave voters really think ‘violence is a price worth paying’? The media is constantly saying things about how Brexit extremism and violence and it usually turns out to be overstated

Tom Chivers

11:49

Woke students should think again about jazz hands Oxford University students are moving to encourage jazz hands instead of clapping. But is it actually politically correct?

Giles Fraser

09:29

WeWork tells us what works in the wider economy Could a renewed loss of confidence in the tech sector tip the entire economy into recession?...

Peter Franklin

24.10

Liberals against democracy? Don't miss this magnificently provocative essay from John Gray in the New Statesman..

Peter Franklin

24.10

Five demolished buildings we should rebuild How about nominating buildings that were destroyed in the 20th century by cultural vandals of both the German and British variety, and rebuilding them?

Ed West

24.10

MPs can’t be crybabies Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick revealed on the Victoria Derbyshire programme that some MPs had been in tears during Saturday’s parliamentary sitting — I have to say I find it all a bit feeble....

Paul Embery

23.10

Time for our political packages to be re-sorted I have been doing some online dating recently which gives you a lot of practise in presenting yourself and in noticing tribal politics in other people.

David Goodhart

23.10

Are Americans becoming less Christian? While Britain and France are way ahead on the path of godlessness, the recent drop in Christian religious identification in the US is pretty staggering...

Ed West

23.10

Northern Ireland could still have MEPs after Brexit Northern Ireland may well have the option to petition The European Courts to have representation in the European Parliament through the continued election of MEPs...

Phillip Blond

22.10

Watership Down reveals the radical centre, rabbit-style The rabbits of Watership Down, in escaping their doomed warren and seeking to found a new one, show the way to a new political order

Freddie Sayers

22.10

John Simpson’s two thirds idea is half-baked The veteran BBC broadcaster suggests a new supermajority rule - but has he thought it through?

Peter Franklin

22.10

What will singleton society do to politics? More than a third of households now consist of someone living alone...

Ed West

21.10

The truth about immigration in Sweden Freddie Sayers talks to Swedish activist Siavosh Derakhti about antisemitism and violence in Malmö

Freddie Sayers

21.10

Will the EU shut down its tax havens? New analysis confirms Ireland is the EU's home grown tax haven

Peter Franklin

21.10

Why I baptised my son without asking him first Liberal arguments against baptism misunderstand the nature of faith...

Giles Fraser

19.10

Weekend Long Read: Inside China’s Gulags In this sobering interview, a survivor of a Chinese 're-education camp' tells her story...

Mary Harrington

18.10

Daylight robbery: how lack of sunlight is keeping us awake Lack of sleep is hitting Britain's economic productivity...

Peter Franklin

18.10

Is Nick Cave right about Christianity and Woke Culture? In a recent letter, Nick Cave criticised not just religion, but also atheism, and also woke culture in general...

Giles Fraser

18.10

Why Poland’s Law and Justice Party appeals That Poland currently enjoys an economic growth rate superior to many of its European neighbours should command attention...

Paul Embery

18.10

How Russell Brand won me round The ex-junkie sex-addict comedian is a healthy voice for men in our culture

Elizabeth Oldfield

17.10

Not so fast. Boris Johnson will have an uphill battle with voters Whilst it’s still too early to say how the deal will go down, the Conservative Party leader certainly faces a challenge...

Chris Curtis

17.10

Important news of the day: the Eleanor Cross is safe Yes, the Eleanor Cross in Northamptonshire is off Historic England’s “endangered list” of buildings...

Ed West

17.10

The politics of Donald Trump’s stoopid language Using childish language seems to have served Donald Trump quite well...

Freddie Sayers

16.10

There is nothing wrong with neoliberalism… as a word ‘Neoliberalism’ is not the loveliest of words, but it is a useful one...

Peter Franklin

16.10

Hassan Damluji: How to build a global nation I sat down with author Hassan Damluji to discuss his new book, The Responsible Globalist...

Freddie Sayers

15.10

LeBron James kowtows to China Lakers basketball hero LeBron James poured burning oil on already-troubled waters when he appeared to row back from supporting freedom of speech...

Mary Harrington

15.10

Late Capitalism? Don’t you believe it. In the 1930s, the capitalist system faced an existential threat from communism and fascism; but what does it have it worry about today?...

Peter Franklin

15.10

Where’s the EU outrage at Spain’s brutal sentencing of separatists? Can you imagine policemen from the Home Counties being sent up to Glasgow to crack heads because the SNP had dared to hold a referendum?...

Ed West

14.10

Trust me, Tony Blair is not as brilliant as you think I’m afraid I just cannot share Freddie Sayers's view that Tony Blair is this brilliant...

Philip Collins

14.10

Sorry Lady Hale, that’s not quite an answer Lady Hale's response to anxieties about legal overreach didn't convince me...

Giles Fraser

14.10

Prince Charles hints at a blueprint for his reign When Prince Charles becomes King, the monarchy will overnight once again become a court of ideas

Freddie Sayers

12.10

Weekend long read: China’s illiberal Confucianism This week’s long read recommendation looks at the rise of authoritarian Confucianism as an increasingly dominant state doctrine in modern China...

Mary Harrington

11.10

Why haven’t you seen your friends recently? With our hectic work-lives now increasingly directed by the demands of a 24-hour gig economy, shared time with friends or the old fashioned idea of the family weekend have been destroyed...

Giles Fraser

11.10

How the Knights Templar explain Portuguese politics Historical regions map onto contemporary politics with remarkable accuracy...

Ed West

10.10

Why would anyone buy a negative yield bond?

Peter Franklin

10.10

Tax evading billionaires will put Warren in the White House Well, it's finally happened – America now has a regressive tax system in which the 400 richest families pay a lower effective rate than the poorest 50% of Americans...

Peter Franklin

10.10

You don’t have to be lefty to love Extinction Rebellion Boris Johnson acknowledged that Thatcher was ahead of her time in acknowledging the impact of “greenhouse gases”...

Elizabeth Oldfield

09.10

Not a soul on the streets for Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv It is not illegal to drive here on Yom Kippur. You can if you want, but people don’t...

Giles Fraser

09.10

Why #WeHeartGermany Survey after survey shows that British people feel very warmly towards Germans...

Ed West

09.10

RIBA makes the right decision, for a change The judges made the right decision in last night’s Stirling Prize...

Nicholas Boys Smith

08.10

Are socialists liberal? A response to Maajid Nawaz I'd argue that most of the contemporary Left, including the self-declared socialist component, is liberal though-and-through...

Peter Franklin

08.10

When will the Left get over WW2? No sooner had news filtered through that Pizza Express was in trouble when, inevitably, some people suggested nationalising it...

Ed West

08.10

When war becomes like mowing the lawn 'Just war' theory had much to say about when it was morally acceptable to start a war, and very little about how to end them...

Giles Fraser

07.10

Why does everyone hate inheritance tax? The case for inheritance tax is a supremely rational one – but that's precisely the problem...

Peter Franklin

07.10

Is Joker meant to be Donald Trump? I worry that in the political furore around Joker, the violent backstory of the iconic Batman character, people might be missing the obvious...

Freddie Sayers

07.10

Why won’t the Islamic Republics criticise China? Both Iran and Pakistan are shamefully silenced by China's economic muscle...

Giles Fraser

05.10

Weekend Long Read: The Myth of Boundless Growth This weekend's long read looks at the implications for our world economy of a future seeking either to prioritise growth or decarbonisation.

Mary Harrington

04.10

Satire isn’t as powerful as you think

Giles Fraser

04.10

Urban Guy versus Flyover Man

Freddie Sayers

04.10

Fake blood won’t do it: the climate change movement needs to lead by example A protest to spray the Treasury with fake blood left the organisers red faced...

Peter Franklin

03.10

Marina Hyde’s selective feminism Am I being po-faced, or is Marina Hyde's latest riff on the Conservative Party conference downright misogynistic?

03.10

Tory MP: kleptocrat “bling” oligarchs should be unwelcome in London Tory MP John Penrose made a splash at the party's conference by criticising the capitalist system in such strong terms that members in the audience complained that he sounds like a Labour MP...

Freddie Sayers

03.10

Why do some people find more purpose in life than others? A YouGov survey commissioned for a report by the libertarian Cato Institute reveals significant existential inequalities between Americans...

Peter Franklin

02.10

My technology lesson for Boris Let's take a closer look at some of those science projects the prime minister mentioned in his speech...

Tom Chivers

02.10

Chinese Christians face real danger Officially, there are over 40 million Christians in China. Unofficially, the figure is probably closer to 100 million and growing...

Giles Fraser

02.10

‘Stop funding hate’ is a dangerous campaign Sometimes the campaigns that appear the most unthreatening and innocuous turn out to present the greatest danger...

Paul Embery

01.10

Why #MeToo is a Christian movement

Ed West

01.10

Watch: UnHerd goes to Tory Conference Freddie Sayers asks David Goodhart, Matthew Goodwin and Madeline Grant whether the Tory Party are really answering the demands of Brexit voters...

Freddie Sayers

01.10

One step forward, one step back in the battle for beauty It looks like the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is being listened to...

Peter Franklin

16:3230.09

Get real. Politicians were never morally superior

Ella Whelan

30.09

Who matters more, your family or the wider world? A new paper by Jonathan Haidt shows an intriguing correlation between our moral priorities and our political leanings

Giles Fraser

30.09

The politest man in parliament defends rude words At a fringe event in Manchester, Michael Gove epitomises the contradictions of the Tory Party in 2019

Freddie Sayers

28.09

Weekend long read: In defence of being an arsehole On Being An Arsehole: A Defence is this weekend’s long read pick, by Jonny Thakkar in The Point...

Mary Harrington

27.09

Hissing at dissent, at women’s event Just because women need to be protected from violence, it doesn’t mean we need to be protected from disagreement...

Freya Sanders

27.09

Watch: John McDonnell takes a swipe at Ed Miliband At a Labour Party Conference event, Ed Miliband bent over backwards to be complimentary to the leadership; John McDonnell didn’t exactly return the favour...

Freddie Sayers

27.09

How much is a prayer worth? Economists have been trying to put a monetary value on prayer by testing how willing people are to pay for it...

Elizabeth Oldfield

26.09

Why “Green Growth” is a have your cake and eat it philosophy I believe Greta is correct when she speaks of “fairy tales of economic growth”...

Giles Fraser

26.09

Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet Amid the continuing tumult of Greta-mania and Greta-phobia, Jeff MacMahon of Forbes has noticed something in Thunberg's words that everyone else has missed...

Peter Franklin

26.09

Hannah Arendt on Boris Johnson

Freddie Sayers

25.09

Mark Thompson: the BBC is the answer to Brexit OK, he didn't say exactly that, in his speech last night to the Royal Television Society, but that was the implication of his argument...

Freddie Sayers

25.09

Meanwhile in America… President Yang? We should be paying more attention to the race for the Democratic nomination...

Peter Franklin

24.09

Stephen Kinnock Interview: the Labour Party is in danger I sat down with Stephen Kinnock MP at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, to discuss his prospective Brexit deal and the future of the party...

Paul Embery

24.09

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution I told you so. The other week on UnHerd, I argued that it is time that the UK had a proper written constitution...

Peter Franklin

24.09

Greta may be right, but the spectacle is wrong It makes me uncomfortable to watch a child in distress...

Ed West

23.09

Who gives a **** about England? A Labour fringe event entitled ‘Who gives a(nything) about England?’ this afternoon answered its own question when two of the four panellists didn’t even show up...

Freddie Sayers

23.09

Who benefits from slavery reparations?

Mary Harrington

23.09

The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals The term ‘evangelical’ has been so distorted by American politics that is meaning is now a million miles away from that of its historical formulation...

Giles Fraser

21.09

‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton You know something has really hit the mainstream when Alain de Botton starts talking about it...

Giles Fraser

20.09

Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest Some of our favourite signs from the climate change protest in Westminster...

Freddie Sayers

20.09

Don’t miss today’s good news on climate Amid the Climate Strike protests, real progress is being made towards a low carbon economy – not least in Britain, where we got some more good news today...

Peter Franklin

20.09

New book puts John Rawls in the dock The dominance of Rawls' brand of Liberalism has held back philosophy for decades, according to a Harvard professor...

Giles Fraser

19.09

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

Freddie Sayers