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‘If Andrew is far from a tragic figure, it isn’t only because he lacks the necessary dignity and gravitas’. | Terry Eagleton
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The half-buffoon prince
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor: the half-buffoon prince. Credit: WPA pool / Getty Images
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘If Andrew is far from a tragic figure, it isn’t only because he lacks the necessary dignity and gravitas’. | Terry Eagleton
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Federal shutdowns have been getting longer for years. Far-Left and far-Right intransigence is the new normal | Michael Lind
Rule-or-ruin Left and Right are to blame for federal shutdowns
The federal government shutdown — the longest in American history to date — may be over soon, thanks to the decision of eight Democrats in the US Senate to join Republicans in a 60-40 vote to end the…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
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Why we will miss the BBC
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
‘The post-structuralists were actually right about “truth” being to some extent an effect of institutional power.’ | Mary Harrington
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'The DEI agenda is exploding, increasingly shaping who receives funding and what universities prioritise' | Eric Kaufmann
DEI research soars in UK grant funding
The resignation of two senior BBC executives over documented Left-wing bias at the broadcaster has exposed a progressive-industrial complex that is increasingly prevalent in public life. Its upstream…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'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 👇
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The IOC’s trans ban is a rare win for reason and common sense, writes Lisa Selin Davis 👇
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IOC trans ban is a reckoning for women's sport
The Times reported this week on the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) impending big announcement: competitors with differences of sexual development (DSD) and trans women — that is, biological…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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 👇
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The IOC’s trans ban is a rare win for reason and common sense, writes Lisa Selin Davis 👇
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‘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
How the KGB tried to recruit me
The journalist Richard Gott, who died earlier this month, used to meet his KGB case officers at a greasy spoon in North London. There, in return for intelligence titbits, they slipped the former…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
‘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
Why Starmer can’t copy Denmark on immigration
Aware of the political urgency around immigration and asylum, Labour is looking abroad for inspiration. In this case, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to model new Government immigration…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
‘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
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Why Britain should be more Soviet
‘Rather than rage and protest and call for its removal, they have chosen another path.’ Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
‘They’ve helped turn communist art from a political symbol, whether good or bad, into a thoroughgoing cultural aesthetic.’ | Joel Day
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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
Nigel Farage: the BBC is guilty of election interference
Nigel Farage today claimed that “what the BBC did was election interference”, in reference to the editing of a speech made by Donald Trump on 6 January 2021, the day of the Capitol riot. He went on…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
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When did Springsteen stop making great albums?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘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
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‘As the principal architect of the low-carbon era, China can build what others only promise — but at a price.’ | Elizabeth Lindley
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China’s new green order
‘China is both the world’s dirtiest industrial behemoth and its leading green architect.’ STR/AFP via Getty Images
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘As the principal architect of the low-carbon era, China can build what others only promise — but at a price.’ | Elizabeth Lindley
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Laws are only useful if a society can interpret them wisely. Our hypersensitivity is the problem, not the Equality Act | Jide Ehizele
British courts shouldn’t have to protect criticism of Islam
When a British judge last week ruled that criticism of Islam counts as a “protected belief”, it seemed paradoxical: the Equality Act, long accused by the political Right of stifling free expression,…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
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How Bardella would break the EU
He’s a Frexiteer. Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
‘Tell me that you want to leave the EU, without telling me that you want to leave the EU.’ | Wolfgang Münchau
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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
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Tim Davie’s resignation is a fresh start for the BBC
What does the BBC do when it ends up in hot water? Until now, the answer has always been to commission an inquiry and then apologise, with added hand-wringing. This time, however, the buck stops at…
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November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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
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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
Has Britain given up on its heritage sites?
“Heritage”, as an idea, has long occupied an uncertain place in Britain’s modern pantheon. But now, as we fall out of love with our own past, the slide seems unavoidable. According to Historic...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Poll: majority of British voters want both Starmer and Reeves to resign
A majority of the British public wants both Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to resign, according to a new survey. Polling from Opinium found that 56% of voters think the Prime Minister should step…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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...
‘Empire with David Olusoga’ is stuck in 2020
We are all scions of the British Empire in one way or another. As the historian David Olusoga puts it in his new BBC documentary series, Empire with David Olusoga: “There are literally billions of…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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...
Big Tech’s AI layoffs are killing DEI
Reporting this week found that Google, Microsoft, and Meta have quietly stopped publishing workforce diversity data, after a decade of embracing the practice. The timing is perfect. When you’re…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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
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November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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...
Labour prepares for civil war over income tax
In the bumper book of political revenge, Lucy Powell deserves her own chapter. Back in September, she was sacked from the Cabinet by Keir Starmer. It wouldn’t have been so humiliating if the other…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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'Carney's budget is a band-aid that can only provisionally — if at all — stanch the bleeding caused by a deeper wound' | Michael Cuenco
Mark Carney’s budget exposes Canada’s deeper malaise
Suspense is high in Ottawa as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney steers his first budget through to passage. A masterpiece of centrist triangulation, it promises steep cuts — or “sacrifices” —...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
'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
Alex Karp: we will have fewer rights if America loses AI race
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has warned that Western citizens “will have far fewer rights if America is not in the lead” of the AI race. Speaking to Axios, the tech boss suggested that should China pull…
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November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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
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Why Trump should stay out of Nigeria
The Nigerian army has been unable to maintain the country’s security. Photo by STEFAN HEUNIS / AFP
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘Nigeria’s institutions have been hollowed out by state capture and patronage. Elections are routinely rigged and manipulated.’ | Remi Adekoya
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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
Germany’s struggling coalition provides opening for AfD
Germany’s governing coalition, made up of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), already looks extremely fragile. Despite only taking office in May, two…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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The girl who killed ‘Teen Vogue’
Lauren Duca defined Millennial feminism and lifestyle politics. Then she gave it all up. Credit: Lauren Duca
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘Duca’s decade-long trajectory is the story of the Millennial Teen Vogue generation: Bernie rallies, women’s marches, pussy hats.’ | Ryan Zickgraf
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