UnHerd

UnHerd is a British news platform that launched on July 21, 2017. Its mission is to challenge conventional thinking by offering fresh perspectives and to serve as a voice for ideas, individuals, and topics that often go unnoticed. Sally Chatterton, who previously worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Independent, took over as editor after Tim Montgomerie's exit in March 2018. Freddie Sayers became the Executive Editor in 2019, coming from a background as the Editor-in-Chief of YouGov and as the founder of Politics Home, a UK news site. As of January 2020, the website has a dedicated team of 10 full-time editorial and production staff members. UnHerd features contributions from various writers, including Giles Fraser, Ed West, Tanya Gold, John Gray, James Bloodworth, Matthew Goodwin, Julie Bindel, and Douglas Murray. The platform operates without a paywall, funded by an endowment from Sir Paul Marshall, a businessman who supported Brexit and was previously a donor to the Liberal Democrats. There are plans to introduce paid services in the future.

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The totalitarian logic of trans activists

2 days ago | unherd.com | Valerie Stivers

CultureHannah ArendtMutinyTrans activismUSUS Supreme Court This past Saturday in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Chase Strangio, the staff attorney who is co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT and HIV Project, faced a group of supporters to debrief the historic loss of the United States v. Skrmetti at the Supreme Court. The justices had ruled that restricting minors’ access to puberty blockers in Tennessee did not qualify as discrimination.
Is the NBA draft rigged?

3 days ago | unherd.com | B. Duncan Moench

Social mobilityNBADEIYuriko KoikeNBA draftSocietySportUS Tonight is a big night for basketball. It’s the NBA draft: the moment the world’s top 30 basketball teams line up to select the next generation of prodigies. And the worst performing of those 30 get first dibs. This should, theoretically, mean they have better odds at landing top talent.
The false hope of the new Alzheimer’s drugs

1 week ago | unherd.com | Deborah Cohen

Alzheimer’sHealthcareSciencestate of the unionUK “Dementia steals people’s lives, turns their relationships upside down, destroys their hopes and dreams,” said David Cameron, as president of Alzheimer’s UK. This was back in 2017, and his ambitions were impressive: the Government had just published plans for £60 million research funding a year to bring together industry, charities and academia to “accelerate progress towards disease modifying therapy, and ultimately a cure by 2025”.
Stella Creasy's fight for relevance

1 week ago | unherd.com | Sarah Ditum

AbortionPoliticsStella CreasyUK It’s possible that there are other egos in parliament as big as Labour MP Stella Creasy’s. It’s unlikely, though, that anyone can match her combination of relentless self-promotion and extraordinary political incompetence. Few have achieved such blanket publicity for themselves while accomplishing so little, and this week, Creasy’s chosen arena of legislative failure was abortion reform.
When stablecoin alchemy met Trump's GENIUS

1 week ago | unherd.com | Yanis Varoufakis

cryptoDonald TrumpEconomicsFinanceHeroinPoliticsstablecoinsUS Francisco Goya’s etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters warned of the hideous forces unleashed in the mind when reason lowers its guard. Today, stablecoins are the gruesome forces being released into the global economy as President Trump’s crypto dreams, unchecked by reason, morph into reality.
How woke doomed Dems on the border

1 week ago | unherd.com | Emily Jashinsky

American immigrationanti-trumpBidenKamala Harrispeak wokePoliticsTrumpUS The Biden-era explosion in illegal immigration was a direct consequence of Peak Woke: Democrats, overly responsive to fringe activists, advocated for loosening immigration restrictions to avoid cancel-culture mobs and countersignal Donald Trump. Now, amid Trump’s historic crackdown, it feels like the fever is broken.
Who will win the Battle of the Beckhams?

1 week ago | unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby

David BeckhamCelebrityClassknighthoodsBarnett formulaSocietytalentUK Brooklyn and Nicola whizz through Beverly Hills on a red motorbike, a camera pointed up at their grinning bobbleheads as palm trees sail by. He lifts a tattooed paw up to caress her hand — and the tangerine-sized engagement ring it bears. They are the picture of marital bliss. But offstage, all is not well.
Labour’s grooming gang shame

1 week ago | unherd.com | Mary Harrington

grooming gangsKeir StarmerLabour PartyPoliticsPublic SectorUK Outside the wartime use of rape as a weapon, it’s hard to think of anything comparable in scale and brutality to the “Asian grooming gangs”. We are all now sickeningly familiar with the stories of very young girls being gang-raped, trafficked, doused in petrol, kept in cages, tortured with broken glass, violated with anal pumps, and killed by arson or drug overdoses. Some weren’t even 10 years old.
The regime change maniacs are back

1 week ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Donald TrumpIranIraq WarIsraelUSUS foreign policyWar In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. But there were a handful of dissenters, above all Brent Scowcroft. The two-time former national-security adviser (under Gerald Ford and George H. W.
The West has forgotten the art of strategy

1 week ago | unherd.com | Wolfgang Munchau

BRICSChinadiverseSWIFTRussiasemiconductorsSocietySWIFT World-class chess players know the difference between strategy and tactics better than politicians do. To win in chess you need to start with a strategy — a long-term plan that gets you to a position of superiority. Then you close in with a sequence of tactical moves. As Max Euwe, the Dutch chess grandmaster of the 1930s, once observed: “Strategy requires thought. Tactics require observation.”The West is all tactics.