It's 60 years since Britain discovered mods and rockers. So I wrote some words.
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Wrote about Orbán's plans for Europe for UnHerd unherd.com/2024/05/inside…

Credit to Poppy Sowerby for a thoughtful essay unherd.com/2024/05/why-ge…

Wrote about how the modern Left is weirdly resistant to protecting young kids from adult ideas (and how the standard defence of getting ahead of the internet is a cop out).

Sex education is TMI @UnHerd unherd.com/2024/05/sex-ed…

The British state is dysfunctional, and the Westminster system is broken. It’s about to enter a geopolitical storm for which we are entirely unprepared. The race to replace the Conservative Party has higher stakes than SW1 rigmarole may yet realise: unherd.com/2024/05/the-ri…

'Here's to grindy-bum girl'
Sam Leith 🐝 stares into the Portal for UnHerd, and the Portal stares back...
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Nice to see my UnHerd essay on Morgan McSweeney in The Times and The Sunday Times today unherd.com/2024/05/the-mc…

Wrote for UnHerd about campus wars: careerist student radicals, cowardly inconsistent administrators, and conservatives swayed by a safetyism they would never accept from the Left. unherd.com/2024/05/safety…

Exclusive! Barking lies at the heart of the Starmer-McSweeney project. Read Tom McTague’s gripping investigation into who and what is powering Labour’s push for power. Only UnHerd unherd.com/2024/05/the-mc…

💥EXC: My deep dive into the heart of the Starmer-McSweeney project to save the Labour Party—and the long existential battle against *Blairite* revanchism that sits at its very centre👇 unherd.com/2024/05/the-mc…

“I was told daily that I was worthless, pathetic. Deadweight.”

Lauren Southern tells Mary Harrington how her tradlife turned into a nightmare for UnHerd

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“I was told daily that I was worthless, pathetic. Deadweight.”

Lauren Southern tells Mary Harrington how her tradlife turned into a nightmare for UnHerd

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I watched Baby Reindeer with a deeply uncomfortable sense of recognition - because over ten years ago, I attracted the attention of a stalker, and like Donny in the show, I made the mistake of inviting her into my life
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It's time to reclaim Britpop from the Britpoppers: unherd.com/2024/04/how-pa…

Delighted to publish Frederick Kaufman's artful essay on MAGA masculinity and Donald Trump's uncanny resemblance to the 'ancient hairy man' of Robert Bly's cult book, Iron John.

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In this week’s These Times Tom McTague and I turn to Venezuela’s bid to take two-thirds of Guyana, the world’s fasting growing economy, and what the history of this conflict reveals about a world in which both China and Iran are challenging the US in the western hemisphere.

Gender ideology needed two parents: one was the strand of feminism that's treats sex difference as a threat, and one was the outcrop of scientific sexism that argued male and female brains are totally divergent. Half Judith Butler, half Simon Baron-Cohen
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A desperately bleak, keenly perceptive dispatch by Jacob Furedi from ‘the party town thrown into the abyss’ for UnHerd
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I try to get into the mind of Rushdie’s would-be assassin Hadi Matar, who evidently wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

My latest for UnHerd:

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Huge thanks to the amazing team behind the most niche tabloid in the business, and particularly to my brilliant editor Jacob Furedi