3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1187+ words) The 21st century has crushed the human intellect UnHerd Why you don’t really get Homer The 21st century has crushed the human intellect “Odysseus was deplored for his lack of scruple, his amorality, his low cunning.” (The Odyssey/Universal Pictures/IMDb) When…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1248+ words) She is doing Burnham’s dirty work UnHerd Shabana Mahmood: human shield She is doing Burnham’s dirty work Mahmood has retained her Cabinet position. (Leon Neal/Getty) The comparison is well-chosen. Like Gloriana, Mahmood is unmarried; she gives the impression of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (622+ words) UnHerd Boris Johnson is still in denial about his immigration failures Yesterday, Johnson tried to downplay his role in Britain’s post-Covid migration boom. Credit: Getty In New York, the World Cup final becomes a Gaza proxy war It is eerie…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (457+ words) UnHerd In New York, the World Cup final becomes a Gaza proxy war Spanish fans have aligned themselves with Palestine, while Argentina is more associated with Israel. Credit: Getty Burnham’s North Sea gas policy condemns Britain to mediocrity “Israel genocide…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (140+ words) “There is always 2030.” (Odd Andersen/AFP/ Getty) For days before England played Argentina in the World Cup semi-final, the old dread had been rising in me like damp through a wall. England against Argentina has never once been merely a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (863+ words) The nation is united by grievance UnHerd Argentina: World Cup villains The nation is united by grievance Players holding a banner reading: “the Falklands are Argentinian”. (Paul Ellis/AFP/ Getty) Argentina’s win over a faint-hearted England — in a decisive comeback of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (269+ words) Round two? Credit: Getty The rest of the world has joined in on the fun as well. Scottish trolls have delighted in backing Argentina, and much of South America is keen to demonstrate how much they dislike the Argentines. Mindless…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (246+ words) The great French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand remarked about the Bourbons after the French Revolution that they had “learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”. We might say the same about the Western establishment’s more recent response to the rise of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (542+ words) A new report has found that two in five Britons believe that Muslims cannot integrate into British society, while more than half think the country’s national identity is disappearing due to “diversity”. Authored by the UK’s first counter-extremism commissioner, Sara…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (261+ words) The movie’s protagonist goes on an anti-migrant killing spree. Credit: YouTube “You’re going to Mount Vernon?” asks my Uber driver, Mohammed, in broken English, picking me up from President Trump’s very disappointing Great American State Fair over the Fourth of…...