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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It’s complicated being a Jew

2 days ago | unherd.com | Nicole Lampert

AntisemitismGazaHamasIsraelJewishnesspalestinePoliticsrestofworldbell hooks “We are leaving,” one of my oldest friends told me over dinner the other night. “We’ve had enough.” Earlier in the week his wife had been shouted at by a passing motorist as she crossed the road: “You fat fucking Jew.” His daughter goes to a Jewish school where, since October 7, the kids have been told not to wear their blazers because they have a Star of David on them.
Joe Rogan is no iconoclast

3 days ago | unherd.com | David Masciotra

Ben ShapiroIntellectual Dark WebJoe RoganPodcastsPoliticsTrumpUS Every era has a class of leading intellectuals, those rare scholars who can break outside the cloister of academia to penetrate the public consciousness. In the mid-20th century, Europe had the existentialists, while America boasted luminaries such as Sontag and Vidal.
Is this the end of Donald Tusk?

4 days ago | unherd.com | Kapil Komireddi

Donald TuskEUEuropePolandPoliticsRussiaUkraine “Civilisation won! Civilisation won!” shrieked a supporter at an election night gathering in Warsaw. As I had left my hotel for the party, Rafał Trzaskowski, a centrist europhile and the mayor of Warsaw, seemed poised to win in what had been portrayed as the most consequential presidential contest in Poland’s recent history. Yet, by the time I arrived at the reception — a mere five-minute drive — the tide had turned.
Terror never left Britain

4 days ago | unherd.com | Poppy Sowerby

ExtremismISISTerrorSocietystrategic bombersTerrorismUK Eight years ago today, a white van mounted the pavement in London Bridge. It first struck three people before launching Xavier Thomas into the Thames. Next Chrissy Archibald was trapped under the van, briefly freed then run over. Nearby, tourists mooched about Borough Market admiring glossy chocolate strawberries and Sussex cheeses, craning their necks to look at the Shard.
Lawfare won’t beat Trump

5 days ago | unherd.com | Wolfgang Munchau

DemocracyDemocratsEconomyEUPoliticsRepublicansTariffsUS Liberal Europeans hate Donald Trump. They also tend to misjudge him. I see this tendency particularly strongly represented in the media, where wishful thinking is the guiding principle. The media drew the wrong political conclusions about his criminal trials last year. Now they are misjudging last week’s court ruling blocking his 2 April reciprocal tariffs.
Nigel Farage’s cynical pronatalism

5 days ago | unherd.com | Sarah Ditum

benefitsMotherhoodNigel FaragePro-natalismSocietytwo-child benefit capUK Nigel Farage stands alone in British politics for his tenacity, his ruthlessness — and his sheer neck. Last week, in a speech outlining Reform’s prospectus for government, he committed the party to lifting the two-child cap on benefits.
The taming of the finance bro

5 days ago | unherd.com | Josiah Gogarty

BankingCost of livingFinanceHousingSocietyUKvibe shift In The Money Culture, a 1991 collection of magazine articles about finance, Michael Lewis shares a jewel-like anecdote. In the summer of 1984, two American investment bankers are interviewing a potential hire from Cambridge University. They ask him why an Englishman would want to work for an American investment bank. He praises its “commitment to excellence”, and the “exceptional” abilities of its employees.
How the BLM riots broke America

1 week ago | unherd.com | Sohrab Ahmari

Black Lives MatterBLMNew YorkProtestsSocietyUSVibeshift On the night of 1 June 2020, almost exactly five years ago, gunshots rang out not far from my apartment in East Midtown Manhattan. As my wife and I anxiously scrolled news feeds, our kids — then ages three and one — slept, oblivious to the coruscating sirens that carried hints of chaos beyond our door.
Tom Cruise's Scientologist soul

1 week ago | unherd.com | Matt Feeney

action filmCinemaCultureFilmHollywoodtom cruiseaction filmUS Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage are strangely important to the story of the Mission: Impossible franchise, as I understand that story. The first Mission: Impossible arrived in 1996, amid a long decade of big-budget, big box-office, shamelessly over-the-top action movies starring those two actors, such as the Die Hard movies and Armageddon (Willis), and The Rock and Con Air (Cage).
Lithuanians are ready for war

1 week ago | unherd.com | Felix Pope

EuropeLithuaniaNatoPutinRussiaUkraineWar Crouched low on the ground, three Lithuanian militiamen were studying a map and debating where to direct a drone. Around them, men in dark camouflage fatigues lay prone with their rifles aimed outwards. From the pine trees clustered around them to the unmanned aerial vehicle buzzing overhead, the scene felt reminiscent of Ukraine’s eastern battlefields. When the drone reached its target, however, it dropped not a bomb but a bottle of water.