‘Whenever a song or speech veered into politics, a pale and stout young man pumped his middle finger ecstatically into the sky’ | Cosmo Adair

Has Labour learnt the benefits of Brexit? | Philip Cunliffe

‘The most obvious explanation for the non-league boom is growing fan disenfranchisement with elite football.’ | Ross Davies unherd.com/2025/11/getting-a-kick-out-of-amateur-football/

‘In the compulsion to make artists more relatable to today’s identity politics, we reduce them to bundles of symptoms’ | J.J. Charlesworth unherd.com/newsroom/jmw...

'The gaudy enthusiasms of the evangelical Right are liable to produce an aesthetic revulsion in the British observer.’ | Samuel Rubinstein unherd.com/2025/11/is-reform-going-too-christian/

‘At the best of times, the BBC website is an obsessive compendium of drag queens.’ | Poppy Sowerby unherd.com/2025/11/inside-the-bbcs-hr-problem/

Is Britain staring down the barrel of an unemployment crisis? | Andrew O'Brien

New polling finds that Gavin Newsom is more popular among young male voters than JD Vance. But can he fix the Democrats' man problem? | Michael Baharaeen unherd.com/newsroom/new...

Labour has pledged to phase out the use of hotels for housing migrants but today’s court ruling against Epping Forest Council doesn’t bode well for the plan | Henry Hill

‘These days conservative Christianity is perhaps the best available way for a teenage boy to shock his mother.’ | John Michael Greer unherd.com/2025/11/beware-the-religious-revival/

‘The BSW’s singular brand of Left-wing populism now seems doomed to fail because the two pillars on which it was built have fallen away’ | Katja Hoyer

‘If Syria is to survive as a viable state, President Ahmed al-Sharaa must find a way to accommodate its minorities.’ | David Patrikarakos unherd.com/2025/11/does...

‘If Andrew is far from a tragic figure, it isn’t only because he lacks the necessary dignity and gravitas’. | Terry Eagleton unherd.com/2025/11/the-superfluous-prince-andrew/

Federal shutdowns have been getting longer for years. Far-Left and far-Right intransigence is the new normal | Michael Lind

‘The post-structuralists were actually right about “truth” being to some extent an effect of institutional power.’ | Mary Harrington unherd.com/2025/11/why-...

'The DEI agenda is exploding, increasingly shaping who receives funding and what universities prioritise' | Eric Kaufmann

Female athletes have faced impossible odds for too long. The IOC’s trans ban is a rare win for reason and common sense, writes Lisa Selin Davis 👇 buff.ly/uQ4WJeh

‘Gott’s treachery was real, but many years after my brush with Russian intelligence, I discovered that I had also been a suspect’ | David Rose

‘The truth is that the UK is light-years behind Denmark when it comes to integration’ | Rakib Eshan

‘They’ve helped turn communist art from a political symbol, whether good or bad, into a thoroughgoing cultural aesthetic.’ | Joel Day unherd.com/2025/11/why-...

Nigel Farage today claimed that the BBC is guilty of 'election interference' for editing a video to suggest Donald Trump incited the Capitol riot | Archie Earle

‘Bruce Springsteen, on the verge of completing an astonishing run of five great albums in row, got the therapy he needed to feel better, and he never made a great album again.’ | Matt Feeney buff.ly/x71Whmz

‘As the principal architect of the low-carbon era, China can build what others only promise — but at a price.’ | Elizabeth Lindley unherd.com/2025/11/chin...

Laws are only useful if a society can interpret them wisely. Our hypersensitivity is the problem, not the Equality Act | Jide Ehizele

‘Tell me that you want to leave the EU, without telling me that you want to leave the EU.’ | Wolfgang Münchau unherd.com/2025/11/how-...

BBC Director General Tim Davie has resigned following a leaked dossier on the corporation’s institutional bias. This is what happens when you kowtow to activists for years | Julie Bindel unherd.com/2025/11/tim-...

If you tell a generation their history is bunk, don’t be surprised when they have no interest in conserving old buildings | Nicholas Boys Smith

Starmer and Reeves are the two least-trusted politicians in the country when it comes to the economy, according to a new poll | Rob Lownie

George Floyd-era debates colour David Olusoga's new BBC series on the British Empire | Ralph Leonard unherd.com/newsroom/emp...

Automation is the perfect excuse to backtrack on diversity commitments | Oliver Bateman unherd.com/newsroom/big...

The Met has many problems but ‘baked-in’ racism isn’t one of them. The lanyard class that runs the force has a real aversion to solving crime | Rory Geoghegan

Lucy Powell is now perfectly positioned to frustrate Starmer's agenda | Peter Franklin unherd.com/newsroom/lab...

'Carney's budget is a band-aid that can only provisionally — if at all — stanch the bleeding caused by a deeper wound' | Michael Cuenco

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has said that Europe is 'abysmal' when it comes to developing AI | Archie Earle

‘Nigeria’s institutions have been hollowed out by state capture and patronage. Elections are routinely rigged and manipulated.’ | Remi Adekoya unherd.com/2025/11/trump-should-stay-out-of-nigeria/

Despite only taking office in May, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition is already showing cracks. Fewer than one-third of Germans think it will last until 2029 | Wolfgang Munchau

‘Duca’s decade-long trajectory is the story of the Millennial Teen Vogue generation: Bernie rallies, women’s marches, pussy hats.’ | Ryan Zickgraf unherd.com/2025/11/the-...

This week, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang warned the West that China will win the AI race. A new Cold War is in full swing | Gavin Haynes

Knausgaard’s latest book promises a reflection on our technology-obsessed world; a proper retelling of the Faust myth in the most Faustian time in human history. | Sam Jennings unherd.com/2025/11/knausgaard-cant-escape-autofiction/

'In fringe corners of the internet, users may mimic jihadist or neo-Nazi aesthetics, but the ideology is hollow' | Limor Simhony

‘Monisha Rajesh has forgotten the first rule of victim club.’ | Kathleen Stock unherd.com/2025/11/how-to-play-the-victim-card/

Five years ago, 17% of the public thought that trans rights had ‘gone too far’. Now that figure is 39% | UnHerd unherd.com/newsroom/gro...

Nancy Pelosi was four years old when American troops landed in Normandy. Why can’t the Democrats find a replacement? | Emily Jashinsky

Palestine flags deck the streets of Aston, but they’re not the only flags. There are Union and St George’s flags too. | Dan Cave unherd.com/2025/11/how-birmingham-became-a-political-football/

Black and Hispanic New Yorkers backed Cuomo in the Democratic primary, before swinging to Mamdani in the general election. Why? | Santiago Vidal Calvo

‘It’s generally considered bad form to begin any obituary of the recently deceased with a list of strikes and demerits.’ | B. Duncan Moench unherd.com/2025/11/dick...

On Tuesday, WhatsApp groups were awash with bawling adults. | Julie Burchill unherd.com/2025/11/save-me-from-john-lewis-britain/

Prevent received twice as many referrals for ‘Extreme Right-wing’ concerns as ‘Islamist Extremism’ last year | Max Mitchell

‘It’s been an article of orthodoxy among Democrats that no party which welcomed socialists could ever stand a chance outside of America’s liberal heartlands.’ | John Rapley unherd.com/2025/11/will-america-elect-a-socialist-president/

Zarah Sultana has been accused of refusing to release over £1 million in Your Party donations and membership fees | David Rose