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UnHerd @unherd.com · 3h

'MAGA is about America First and American citizens first,”' Bannon said.

'Having a military base of a foreign power is against MAGA principles.' | UnHerd Staff 👇

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Steve Bannon denounces Trump's Qatari airbase plan

Steve Bannon has warned that the US decision to host a Qatari air base in Idaho violates MAGA principles. On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a finalised agreement that will allow the…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 5h

MIT became the first college to say no to Trump’s funding deal.

Other universities should follow and defend academic freedom, writes Michael Hurley 👇

UnHerd @unherd.com · 7h

Let’s not get tied up in knots over healthy expressions of sexuality | Rowan Pelling unherd.com/newsroom/in-...

In defence of university kink clubs

It’s been almost four decades since I went to a university freshers’ fair, but I can still remember my joie de vivre ebbing away as I perused stalls for the Socialist Workers Party, beagling, Tiddlywinks,...

UnHerd @unherd.com · 12h

'Country pubs have often been forced to become, effectively, destination restaurants with a bar attached, simply to survive' | Niall Gooch unherd.com/newsroom/kei...

Keir Starmer can’t save Britain’s rural pubs

There is nothing quite like an old-fashioned pub, with all the trimmings: an open fire, faded prints of Spitfires, and framed news reports from half a century ago. It was good, therefore, to hear…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 13h

Some universities now offer kink societies .

Finally, a place where students can explore pain, pleasure, and safe words, writes Rowan Pelling 👇

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

Late night comedy is dying.

Conservatives launching 'faith-friendly' alternatives won't help, writes Oliver Bateman👇

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

Trump sending in troops across America would fan the flames of lawlessness, not douse them | Kyle Sammin unherd.com/newsroom/tru...

Trump could ignite chaos if he uses the Insurrection Act

Reports say that Donald Trump is considering using the Insurrection Act as a basis for deploying federal troops across the country, including in cities and states where the local governments do not…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

'This is a symbolic prize, acknowledging the bravery not just of one woman, but of a collective cause' | Paola Romero

Why María Corina Machado deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

“I just can’t believe it,” said María Corina Machado on social media, minutes after she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace 2025 earlier today. Is she right to be surprised? Venezuelans have not…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

‘Not since the 1980s have big men been so in demand’ | Jonathan Wilson
unherd.com/2025/10/the-triumph-of-brexitball/

The triumph of Brexitball

Erling Haaland: in football, like politics, the big man is back. Photo: Ryan Pierse/Getty.

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has claimed it will be 'a long time' before the Conservatives produce another prime minister | Rob Lownie

Neil Kinnock: death of Tory Party would harm Labour

“We’d all be losers” if the Conservative Party died out, Neil Kinnock has claimed in a new interview. Speaking to PoliticsJOE, the former Labour leader said that “so much of [Britain’s political]…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

‘The five-acre compound, heavily fortified and opaque by design, would house more than 200 CCP employees and their families — any number of whom could be intelligence operatives’ | Elizabeth Lindley
unherd.com/2025/10/how-the-ccp-duped-britain/

How the CCP duped Britain

The CCP targets students, dissidents, and exiles. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

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‘The award would satisfy Trump’s competitive instincts, his desire for acclaim, and his genuine dislike of bloodshed’ | Emily Jashinsky
unherd.com/2025/10/trumps-quest-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/

Trump’s quest for the Nobel Peace Prize

‘Obama’s easy charisma gave him the bien-pensant acclaim that Trump will never know.’ Photo: Michael Sanitago/Getty.

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

'The EU's LGBTIQ+ Strategy is less about human rights than about branding' | Josephine Bartosch

EU doubles down on gender ideology with radical self-ID plan

This week, Hadja Lahbib, a European Commissioner, announced the bloc’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy. She declared that it would be a “new phase in our efforts to promote equality for LGBTIQ+”, aimed “at…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

‘Reading it hasn’t affected my religious tendencies either way, but it has definitely undermined my faith in science’ | Kathleen Stock
unherd.com/2025/10/the-book-that-could-shake-the-popes-faith/

The book that could shake the Pope’s faith

Not an Agatha Christie Novel / Jesus of Nazareth

UnHerd @unherd.com · 1d

A Reform UK chancellor would be in the exact same position as Rachel Reeves, forced to hike taxes and kowtow to bond markets | Henry Hill

Will Reform UK ever be the party of business?

Reform UK is reportedly stepping up its efforts to woo business. This week the Times reported that Nigel Farage is due to meet Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire chemicals magnate, merely weeks after…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘Chewing out hapless reporters and junior staff is not a personality quirk — it’s a political defect.’ | Zaid Jilani

Katie Porter shows why Democrats keep alienating Republican voters

The California governor’s race is being shaken up by a testy interview between former Democratic congresswoman Katie Porter and a local news reporter. Porter, who is running for governor, was asked…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

To the Israeli Right, the ceasefire deal looks like a dangerous capitulation. Hamas and its Iranian backers view it in the same way | David Rose and Ali Hamedani

How the Gaza ceasefire could fall apart

The Israeli cabinet is meeting this afternoon and is widely expected to approve a ceasefire deal in Gaza. It means that US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war and redevelop the…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘Being Anglo-Nigerian myself, I'm just about old enough to remember when British blackness was Caribbean in character’ | Ralph Leonard
unherd.com/2025/10/why-the-right-mythologises-windrush/

Why the Right mythologises Windrush

A fading historical moment? / Babylon

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘The reigning value system of the arts in this century has been one of increasingly unabashed obsession with wild financial success, naked greed, grifting, and cynical rebranding’ | Sam Jennings
unherd.com/2025/10/the-last-days-of-poptimism/

The last days of poptimism

Sabrina Carpenter’s music is pure 70s A.M. radio, country, and the occasional Prince-lite disco track. Credits: Island Records

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

During the pandemic stamp duty holiday, house prices rose at their fastest rates since the 2004 boom. Scrapping it will hardly solve the housing crisis | Andrew O’Brien

Scrapping stamp duty will alienate Northern Tories

When Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledged on Wednesday to abolish stamp duty on primary home sales, the proposal received widespread support. Stamp duty is the third-most hated tax in the UK,…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘While the highest offices in the CCP are staffed with engineers, Washington is the capital of a lawyerly society’ | Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
unherd.com/2025/10/chinas-breakneck-growth-has-stumbled/

Will China’s breakneck growth stumble?

While the highest offices in the CCP are staffed with engineers, Washington is the capital of a lawyerly society. Photo: Greg Baker/Getty.

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘Trump has demonstrated his remarkable knack for corralling rival factions into alignment with his goals.’ | Tom Rogan

Gaza ceasefire could be Trump’s greatest victory yet

President Donald Trump appeared to secure a huge political victory on Wednesday evening when he announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to implement “the first Phase of our Peace Plan”. Trump’s…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 2d

‘The Greens have built walls high enough to shut out dozens of their own members whose only crime was to hold gender-critical views’ | Julie Bindel
unherd.com/2025/10/the-green-partys-war-on-women/

The Green Party’s war on women

Does Queen Caroline know what a woman is? (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Getty)

UnHerd @unherd.com · 3d

Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius or just a smart guy who got lucky? If the AI bubble bursts, we’ll soon know | Gavin Haynes

Will Sam Altman’s chipmaking gamble implode?

Is Sam Altman a Steve Jobs-level genius? Or is he just a smart guy who struck it lucky and is now about to go shopping with the global capital markets’ credit cards? His company OpenAI has this year…

UnHerd @unherd.com · 3d

Prominent Tory politicians throughout the conference have tried to reposition the party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform — by calling their rivals Left-wing | Max Mitchell

‘Farage is socialist’ becomes new Tory attack line

Prominent Tory politicians throughout this week’s conference have tried to reposition their party as the only centre-right economic force in Britain. And that is how they plan to take on Reform: by…