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Politicians ranging from Rand Paul to Gavin Newsom have opposed Trump’s 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation. It is justified neither by national security nor concerns about innovation | Michael Lind
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Politicians ranging from Rand Paul to Gavin Newsom have opposed Trump’s 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation. It is justified neither by national security nor concerns about innovation | Michael Lind
New data suggests the public thinks less should be spent on public services and taxes should be cut | Archie Earle
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November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New data suggests the public thinks less should be spent on public services and taxes should be cut | Archie Earle
Prostate cancer, left alone, often does not affect male lifespans. We should be careful not to increase diagnosis rates without actually stopping men dying of the disease | Margaret McCartney
How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men
David Cameron has joined the King as the latest public figure to disclose his diagnosis of prostate cancer. In an interview with the Times this week, the former British prime minister revealed that,…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Prostate cancer, left alone, often does not affect male lifespans. We should be careful not to increase diagnosis rates without actually stopping men dying of the disease | Margaret McCartney
‘We were all clambering through brambles and over rusty barbed wire in search of the elusive hare’ | Adam James Pollock
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Northern Ireland’s last huntsmen
‘All this could soon be gone.’ Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
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November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘We were all clambering through brambles and over rusty barbed wire in search of the elusive hare’ | Adam James Pollock
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‘The UK is precisely the type of environment in which Muslim Brotherhood networks thrive’ | Limor Simhony Philpott
Why hasn’t Britain banned the Muslim Brotherhood?
Donald Trump this week moved to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which supports sharia law and the creation of a caliphate. Given its own exposure to the Brotherhood’s influence,…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
‘The UK is precisely the type of environment in which Muslim Brotherhood networks thrive’ | Limor Simhony Philpott
'The Trump Doctrine is a much needed update to last century’s strategic status quo' | Heather Penatzer
The triumph of the Trump Doctrine
President Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Credit: Getty
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
'The Trump Doctrine is a much needed update to last century’s strategic status quo' | Heather Penatzer
‘Independence from Britain is celebrated on average every seven days around the world’ | UnHerd
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The alternative Budget
Rachel Reeves, centre, has been offered advice by Yanis Varoufakis, Arthur Latter, Rian Chad Whitton, Julia Garayo Willemyns and others. Credit: Tom Ough and Jamie Tomlinson
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‘Independence from Britain is celebrated on average every seven days around the world’ | UnHerd
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The BBC’s response to the recent scandal has shown that it’s not even aware of its own blind spots. Moral relativism has eroded trust in the corporation | Jide Ehizele
The BBC’s real problem with unconscious bias
When the Telegraph revealed earlier this month that Donald Trump’s January 6 speech had been misleadingly edited by the BBC’s Panorama, few could have anticipated the scale of the fallout. Public…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The BBC’s response to the recent scandal has shown that it’s not even aware of its own blind spots. Moral relativism has eroded trust in the corporation | Jide Ehizele
‘Puberty is intrinsic, and good, and its end is normal adult sexuality and perhaps having children’ | Mary Harrington
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Why puberty blockers are bad medicine
King’s College London is beginning new medical trials. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
‘Puberty is intrinsic, and good, and its end is normal adult sexuality and perhaps having children’ | Mary Harrington
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unherd.com/2025/11/why-puberty-blockers-are-bad-medicine/
Keeping entrepreneurs in the UK requires more than just lower taxes | Andrew O'Brien
Labour can’t turn a blind eye to entrepreneur exodus
Business Secretary Peter Kyle has admitted that the Government is worried about entrepreneurs fleeing abroad. “There are people starting businesses that have gone to America actually in their…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Keeping entrepreneurs in the UK requires more than just lower taxes | Andrew O'Brien
DOGE scored some genuine victories.
The Education Department is on an off-ramp to total closure and USAID is a shell of itself, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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The Education Department is on an off-ramp to total closure and USAID is a shell of itself, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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DOGE may be gone, but its principles live on
Now that DOGE has been officially pronounced dead, the question is how history will remember it: as a bungled, overhyped failure, or as an earnest — if ultimately doomed — attempt to bring real…
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November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
DOGE scored some genuine victories.
The Education Department is on an off-ramp to total closure and USAID is a shell of itself, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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The Education Department is on an off-ramp to total closure and USAID is a shell of itself, writes Emily Jashinsky 👇
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‘Long-term costs are not picked up by the OBR’s models, which merely look at headline GDP and productivity.’ | Chris Bayliss
Migrant workers won’t fix Britain’s fiscal black hole
Britain has never experienced a Budget build-up quite like this before. The reason is simple: the lenders upon whom the Government relies to cover its constant annual shortfalls are showing signs of getting...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘Long-term costs are not picked up by the OBR’s models, which merely look at headline GDP and productivity.’ | Chris Bayliss
'At times, the philosophy bordered on rape apologia' | Lily Isaacs
Inside the ‘Empire of Orgasm’
The practice of ‘orgasmic meditation’, as depicted by Netflix, became mired in controversy. Photo: Netflix still
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'At times, the philosophy bordered on rape apologia' | Lily Isaacs
As the Greens surge in the polls, Zack Polanski has taken up the role of British politics’ great disruptor. Could his party break Labour's hold on London? | Peter Franklin
Zack Polanski is coming for Labour’s London strongholds
Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, is the new disruptor of British politics. So impressive are his party’s recent polling numbers that even Reform UK, which fishes in very different waters for…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As the Greens surge in the polls, Zack Polanski has taken up the role of British politics’ great disruptor. Could his party break Labour's hold on London? | Peter Franklin
As the Greens surge in the polls, Zack Polanski has taken up the role of British politics’ great disruptor. Could his party break Labour's hold on London? | Peter Franklin
Zack Polanski is coming for Labour’s London strongholds
Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, is the new disruptor of British politics. So impressive are his party’s recent polling numbers that even Reform UK, which fishes in very different waters for…
unherd.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As the Greens surge in the polls, Zack Polanski has taken up the role of British politics’ great disruptor. Could his party break Labour's hold on London? | Peter Franklin
'Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are diligently undermining democracy' | Christopher de Bellaigue
Indian democracy is dying
Narendra Modi dreams of a Hindu supremacist state. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are diligently undermining democracy' | Christopher de Bellaigue
'The People’s CDC preserved the emotional realities of early 2021' | Ryan Zickgraf
The last of the Covidians
Some people are living in the eternal 2020. Caption: Getty
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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'The People’s CDC preserved the emotional realities of early 2021' | Ryan Zickgraf
'The loudest supporters of Ukraine in Europe are those with no understanding whatsoever of the military reality on the ground' | Wolfgang Munchau
Trump has called Europe's bluff
The president saw opportunities that Europe did not. Photo by John McDonnell/Getty Images
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'The loudest supporters of Ukraine in Europe are those with no understanding whatsoever of the military reality on the ground' | Wolfgang Munchau
Confusion surrounds the upcoming Budget. That’s because the Chancellor has been panicking over how to mollify Labour MPs | John Rapley
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is putting Labour over the UK economy
Rachel Reeves finds herself trying to navigate a course between the Scylla of restive Labour MPs and the Charybdis of the bond and currency markets. But unlike in the ancient Greek myth, when…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Confusion surrounds the upcoming Budget. That’s because the Chancellor has been panicking over how to mollify Labour MPs | John Rapley
Washington’s lack of interest threatens to bury Europe’s peace plan.
Kyiv is left navigating proposals that few intend to use, writes Bethany Elliott 👇 unherd.com/newsroom/eur...
Kyiv is left navigating proposals that few intend to use, writes Bethany Elliott 👇 unherd.com/newsroom/eur...
Europe's peace plan for Ukraine is a futile gesture
It has become a hallmark of this war that, whenever America turns away from him, Volodymyr Zelensky seeks succour from his friends in Europe. Last week’s peace plan drafted by the US and Russia is no…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Washington’s lack of interest threatens to bury Europe’s peace plan.
Kyiv is left navigating proposals that few intend to use, writes Bethany Elliott 👇 unherd.com/newsroom/eur...
Kyiv is left navigating proposals that few intend to use, writes Bethany Elliott 👇 unherd.com/newsroom/eur...
X’s new location tags didn’t just expose foreign operators.
They exposed how easily American outrage can be manufactured, writes Oliver Bateman 👇
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They exposed how easily American outrage can be manufactured, writes Oliver Bateman 👇
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X’s location tags expose the real engines of online outrage
X’s new country-of-origin feature took less than 24 hours to trigger a wave of mass unmasking. Click “Joined” on any profile and there it is: “MAGA NATION” with 392,000 followers posting from Eastern…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
X’s new location tags didn’t just expose foreign operators.
They exposed how easily American outrage can be manufactured, writes Oliver Bateman 👇
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They exposed how easily American outrage can be manufactured, writes Oliver Bateman 👇
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Marriage is one of the last counter-cultural commitments we still have.
In a liquid age, choosing one person is an act of rebellion, writes Niall Gooch 👇
In a liquid age, choosing one person is an act of rebellion, writes Niall Gooch 👇
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November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Marriage is one of the last counter-cultural commitments we still have.
In a liquid age, choosing one person is an act of rebellion, writes Niall Gooch 👇
In a liquid age, choosing one person is an act of rebellion, writes Niall Gooch 👇
The Finnish model proves that survival sometimes means compromise.
Ukraine could apply this lesson under the Trump peace proposal, writes Johan Wennström 👇
Ukraine could apply this lesson under the Trump peace proposal, writes Johan Wennström 👇
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November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Finnish model proves that survival sometimes means compromise.
Ukraine could apply this lesson under the Trump peace proposal, writes Johan Wennström 👇
Ukraine could apply this lesson under the Trump peace proposal, writes Johan Wennström 👇
Childhood nonconformity is not a medical condition.
Why are we treating stereotypes as symptoms? Joan Smith 👇
Why are we treating stereotypes as symptoms? Joan Smith 👇
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November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Childhood nonconformity is not a medical condition.
Why are we treating stereotypes as symptoms? Joan Smith 👇
Why are we treating stereotypes as symptoms? Joan Smith 👇
The Obama-to-Trump-to-Biden-to-Trump Pennsylvanian lives on as a mercurial force.
Charles McElwee on the turn away from the Republicans in the Keystone State 👇
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Charles McElwee on the turn away from the Republicans in the Keystone State 👇
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Is Pennsylvania slipping out of Trump’s grasp?
In Rabbit, Run, John Updike describes Brewer — the fictional stand-in for Reading, Pennsylvania — as “a red city, where they paint wood, tin, even red bricks red, an orange-rose flowerpot red that is…
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November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Obama-to-Trump-to-Biden-to-Trump Pennsylvanian lives on as a mercurial force.
Charles McElwee on the turn away from the Republicans in the Keystone State 👇
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Charles McElwee on the turn away from the Republicans in the Keystone State 👇
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