My diversity stress — and ours
On a crisp morning last December, I took the 6 train from near my apartment in East Midtown toward UnHerd’s new US headquarters in Lower Manhattan. If the 4 isn’t…
Burnham won’t quell England’s revolt
In his 2004 song “Irish Blood, English Heart“, the Manchester-Irish songsmith Morrissey proclaimed he was “dreaming of a time when/ To be English is not to be baneful / To…
Can Burnham banish Maggie’s ghost?
In 2013, I attended a Margaret Thatcher death party in Brixton. At the age of 23, perhaps I should have known better. Politically, I was in an extended-adolescence phase of…
Why myths can save humanity
It’s often suggested, in these times of permacrisis, that we need a new story. Keir Starmer needs a new story, liberal democracy needs a new story, the environmental movement, the…
How Gorton beat Denton
It is a familiar pub quiz reveal that the only constituency in mainland Britain to have ever elected an Irish nationalist MP was the now defunct Merseyside seat of “Liverpool…