Donald Trump knows how to party
A bloodied UFC fighter is lying flat on his back, arms akimbo. He has just been knocked unconscious by Josh Hokit, who celebrates by draping…
Mike Pence should go away already
It’s 2001, and a young Mike Pence is listening to George W. Bush deliver his first major speech to Congress. The Indiana representative has waited a long time for a…
Boutique boxing punches down
I must admit I was skeptical walking into BoxCentric, a boxing club on a leafy street in Knightsbridge. I half expected clients in expensive Hermès boxing gloves and Lululemon yoga…
Spencer Pratt: Hollywood troll
Spencer Pratt first appeared on reality television in 2005, when the precocious 20-year-old executive producer stepped out from behind the cameras of The Princes of Malibu to become a permanent…
My night with the young gay Tories
Sir Michael Fabricant assures me that he isn’t “a teddy bear fetishist”. I glance around the former Conservative MP’s living room at the multiplicity of ursine plushies, each comatosely slouched…
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…