I'm mourning the death of Brazilian music star Sérgio Mendes (1941-2024). This track from his famous Brasil 66 band still sounds fresh and vibrant, so many decades later.

At a fringe event at Labour conference today, Lisa Nandy was refreshingly candid about what caused this summer's riots. Dispatch for UnHerd👇

🚨 Special episode from the field... "Labour's Crisis Conference?" Tom McTague and Helen Thompson POLIS head up to Liverpool to find out what's going on with Labour... ft. Max Mitchell, Dan Carden 🎧👇 pod.link/1685475850

🚨 New ep! Hezbollah are in disarray. Their leadership is decapitated, and Israeli troops amass at the border. Tom McTague and Helen Thompson POLIS explore what the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah means for the crisis in the Middle East... 🎧👇 pod.link/1685475850

Lord David Owen has spent the last 60 years at the heart of British politics. He joined Freddie Sayers live at the UnHerd Club, to talk about his life in politics, the ideological shifts of the recent decades and the future of the British Left.

The title of the Wikipedia article about Muslim grooming gangs in Britain has been changed to include the phrase ‘moral panic’. @maxjmitchell1 reports👇 buff.ly/4eQZJt0

Mick Herron’s world works not just because he is a great storyteller, or has a keen grasp of the mechanics of espionage, but because he simply gets an awful lot right about why modern Britain is the way it is. My latest essay for Engelsberg Ideas: engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-slo…

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Sad news in today’s Sun that Reeves will not drink at the despatch box in her first Budget. Her predecessors enjoyed: 🍷Goschen – port 🥚 Gladstone – sherry & beaten egg 🥃Churchill – brandy 🟠Gaitskell – rum & orange 🥛 Dalton – rum & milk 🍸 Howe: G&T 💦 Brown onwards – water

“You closed any more hospital?” “Not in your patch - but good to see you on neutral ground” John Prescott and Ken Clarke discuss jazz at Ronnie Scott’s via Angus Colwell

Matt Hancock told the Covid inquiry that he was “in a battle” with other parts of Government to keep lockdown measures in place. @maxjmitchell1 reports👇 buff.ly/3ZskuXn

Almost four times as many academics are self-censoring compared to the McCarthy era. @maxjmitchell1 on a new FIRE report👇 buff.ly/3OQe1z1

This is a Street Scar, a modest but meaningful example of the failing British state and the sacrifice of place to process. You can read more about …

From theory to practice, craftsmen and traditional architects are coming back. And beauty, with them!

Alasdair MacIntyre, who has passed away at the age of 96, was without question one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. He recognised the roots of modernity’s moral confusion, writes James Orr👇 buff.ly/60JshgM

Reform is trying to carve a coalition that can co-exist beneath the Saltire and Union Jack alike. Read Max Mitchell on why Farage might take Scotland 👇 buff.ly/Mz14EJJ

If you want to understand how Reform UK has become the SNP's main challenger in today's by-election, look no further than this brilliant dispatch from Max Mitchell unherd.com/2025/06/is-sco…

‘Reform is cutting a swathe through the traditional sectarian divide, tapping into frustrations on both sides.’ I went to Hamilton to see what people think of Nigel Farage MP and his party. Read here: unherd.com/2025/06/is-sco…

Dresden. Every building pictured dates from the last twenty years, the result of a 2002 municipal referendum in which the city decisively voted in favour of reconstructing its historic centre.