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A viral figure claimed a third of young GOP staffers are Groypers.
Emily Jashinsky's reporting suggests it’s wildly inflated 👇
Emily Jashinsky's reporting suggests it’s wildly inflated 👇
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November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A viral figure claimed a third of young GOP staffers are Groypers.
Emily Jashinsky's reporting suggests it’s wildly inflated 👇
Emily Jashinsky's reporting suggests it’s wildly inflated 👇
University College London has apologised for a lecture hosted by the Justice in Palestine Society which referred to an antisemitic blood libel | David Rose
UCL apologises for lecture citing antisemitic blood libel
University College London has issued an “unequivocal apology” following a lecture hosted by the institution’s Justice in Palestine Society which uncritically referred to a 19th century antisemitic…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
University College London has apologised for a lecture hosted by the Justice in Palestine Society which referred to an antisemitic blood libel | David Rose
‘What had once been a messy collision of inspiration and accident now looks like a Fordist workflow diagram’ | Ryan Zickgraf
Breaking Rust’s hit song proves AI has colonised music
“Panty dropping sexxxy,” one Instagram fan wrote under Breaking Rust’s new country hit “Walk My Walk”. There’s just one problem: though the song climbed to the top of Billboard’s Country Digital Song…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
‘What had once been a messy collision of inspiration and accident now looks like a Fordist workflow diagram’ | Ryan Zickgraf
Cracks are appearing in Trump’s once-solid base.
Even the movement he built is starting to challenge him, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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Even the movement he built is starting to challenge him, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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MAGA is nearing breaking point with Trump
MAGA is growing impatient with Trump 2.0. As the President’s second term nears the one-year mark, cracks are appearing in the rock-solid foundation that has supported him since 2015. Will the dam…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cracks are appearing in Trump’s once-solid base.
Even the movement he built is starting to challenge him, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
buff.ly/Os7EHvG
Even the movement he built is starting to challenge him, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
buff.ly/Os7EHvG
‘Whenever a song or speech veered into politics, a pale and stout young man pumped his middle finger ecstatically into the sky’ | Cosmo Adair
Bob Vylan brings the revolution to North London
Kentish Town, North London “Who knew of Bob Vylan before the 28th of June?” asked the frontman of the punk-rap duo, addressing the audience at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town last night. Only the most…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
‘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
Britain’s EU defence snub is a sign of national strength
With all the gloom in Britain over Keir Starmer’s crumbling poll ratings, a potential coup, a battered state media arm and the country’s leaky borders, it would be all too easy to overlook some rare…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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Getting a kick out of amateur football
They don’t want tiki-taka. Matt Cardy via Getty.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘The most obvious explanation for the non-league boom is growing fan disenfranchisement with elite football.’ | Ross Davies
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‘In the compulsion to make artists more relatable to today’s identity politics, we reduce them to bundles of symptoms’ | J.J. Charlesworth
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JMW Turner’s ‘autism’ is no guide to his art
Was the great British painter J.M.W. Turner autistic? More importantly, should we care? The question of Turner’s psychology is floated in an upcoming BBC documentary, Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks,…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
‘In the compulsion to make artists more relatable to today’s identity politics, we reduce them to bundles of symptoms’ | J.J. Charlesworth
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'The gaudy enthusiasms of the evangelical Right are liable to produce an aesthetic revulsion in the British observer.’ | Samuel Rubinstein
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Is Reform going too Christian?
James Orr with his buddy JD Vance. Credit: James Orr/X
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'The gaudy enthusiasms of the evangelical Right are liable to produce an aesthetic revulsion in the British observer.’ | Samuel Rubinstein
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‘At the best of times, the BBC website is an obsessive compendium of drag queens.’ | Poppy Sowerby
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Inside the BBC’s HR problem
Dan Kitwood / Getty Images
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
‘At the best of times, the BBC website is an obsessive compendium of drag queens.’ | Poppy Sowerby
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Is Britain staring down the barrel of an unemployment crisis? | Andrew O'Brien
Rising unemployment could send Britain back to the Eighties
New ONS figures reveal that unemployment has risen faster than City economists had forecast to 5% in the third quarter of the year, up from 4.8% in the last quarter. This means that there are now 1.8…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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...
Newsom recognises the Democrats’ man problem — but can he fix it?
In a weekend interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Gavin Newsom took a moment to speak directly to the Democratic Party about its struggles with young men. The California Governor remarked that Democrats…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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
Epping migrant hotel ruling undermines Labour’s asylum plans
Today, Epping Forest District Council finally lost its case with the Home Office over migrant hotels. The council had sought and initially secured an injunction against The Bell Hotel — the former…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
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Beware the religious revival
Returning to the old ways. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty
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November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘These days conservative Christianity is perhaps the best available way for a teenage boy to shock his mother.’ | John Michael Greer
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‘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
Is Sahra Wagenknecht’s resignation the end of Left-conservatism?
German Left-winger Sahra Wagenknecht is stepping down as chair of the BSW, a party named after her and founded only last year. It may well be the end of her political experiment of “Left-wing…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
‘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
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Does Syria have a future?
They have their eye on Damascus. Credit: Uygar Onder Simsek/AFP via Getty Images
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
‘If Syria is to survive as a viable state, President Ahmed al-Sharaa must find a way to accommodate its minorities.’ | David Patrikarakos
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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