Burnham is keeping his enemies close
Last Monday, Andy Burnham delivered what was perhaps the most ambitious statement of economic intent since 1997. Standing outside Downing Street, the Prime Minister spoke…
Why people hate humanoid robots
At Cooper’s Brewery in Adelaide, the largest family-owned brewing business in Australia, forklifts glide around the sizable factory floor. With ease, they shelve boxes of lagers and ales. But nobody…
Tony Blair’s comeback will fail
Once political ideas fail, they don’t get second chances. Communism has been tried. It won’t come back. Nor will Tony Blair’s idea of a “radical center”. It was the great…
Brad Lander’s ‘No’ to Israel
“Most people, even supporters of Israel, view it with some revulsion,” Brad Lander tells UnHerd. “There were war crimes that went way beyond a legitimate prosecution against the perpetrators of…
Yes, the cellphone bans are working
Earlier this month, the Trump administration’s Office of the Surgeon General and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, separately called for limits on screen-time in schools.…
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…
What Versace learned from Rome
I It was not the first time I had been in South Beach. An earlier visit to Florida had come about by happenstance. A chilly autumn in the mid-Nineties, and…
The year of cosmic shock
President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51, while, on a more serious register, his administration releases a huge tranche…
The plot for a British caliphate
The Muslim Brotherhood is many things: a political organisation with global presence; a secretive society, with high-level connections into business and government; a missionary body that seeks to maximise the…
The railway dividing Mexico
I’m deep in the Mexican jungle, and it’s 40°C. All around me, the earth is torn up, and red clay bleeds out near diggers and bulldozers. It should, in short,…
Confessions of a grown-up tech addict
A few years ago, I lost my smartphone. After hours of searching, I noticed the washing-up bowl in the kitchen, still ominously full of soapy water from an earlier task.…