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Challenging the herd with bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture. Subscribe to UnHerd here: unherd.com/join

London, United Kingdom

Joined March 2017

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Belfast after the 'beheading', by Aris Roussinos (@arisroussinos) The nightmare scenario for Sinn Féin would have been Catholics rioting against immigrants. That did not happen: instead, working-class Catholics merely turned out to watch their Protestant neighbours riot with an
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"The best option for the BBC is also the easiest: do nothing and put the show on hiatus. Put the old police box in storage; switch off the Cybermen and park the Daleks at the bottom of the stairs."
Doctor Who collapse shows the BBC is out of ideas
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“Anglo-Gaullism is nothing more than the British elite doing what it’s always done: sensing the mood to adapt its tone” Political commentator Stella @Stsantek joins UnHerd to dispel the notion that ‘Anglo-Gaullism’ is the solution to Britain’s woes.
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Could a robust, sovereign nation-state modelled on the principles of French president Charles de Gaulle save an exhausted Britain? Or is so-called “Anglo-Gaullism” just a hopeful delusion of X-addicted conservatives? Journalist @ClarkeMicah and UnHerd columnist @arisroussinos
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New polling suggests moral objection to gender transition among Americans is on the rise. So why are Democrats still so out of step with the public on the issue? Read @LisaSelinDavis 👇
Democrats are out of step with shifting views on gender transition
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Julie Bindel
@bindelj
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“Belgium has contrived to empower every one of its pimps and open up unparalleled choice for the male sexual consumer — while doing almost nothing to improve the lives of the women whose ‘work’ makes any of this possible.” My longread, on Belgium's hellish sex trade @unherd
Brussels: Europe's Pimp City
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‘What was thought of as a movement for liberation and equality has, in fact, wreaked havoc on the country.’ Read @LisaSelinDavis on America’s changing attitudes toward gender transition👇
Democrats are out of step with shifting views on gender transition
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S. I. Rubinstein
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Is Andy Burnham a plastic Papist?
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'Increasingly outgunned financially and creatively by the streaming behemoths, its output feels derivative and stale.' Read @CptHastings1916 on what the cancellation of Doctor Who's Christmas special shows about the BBC 👇
Doctor Who collapse shows the BBC is out of ideas
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Classical liberals warned, during the BLM riots, that nothing good would come of abandoning the aspiration to treating everyone equally, even if this happened in the name of "antiracism" They were right. Now the genie of tribalism is out of the bottle:
BLM’s shadow looms over Belfast riots
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‘The show is now built on finger-wagging storylines, poor acting and writing, attacks on established backstory, and a general air of emotional excess.’ Read @CptHastings1916 on the decline of Doctor Who👇
Doctor Who collapse shows the BBC is out of ideas
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Julie Bindel
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I wrote, for @unherd, about Europe's pimp state - Brussels:
Brussels: Europe's Pimp City
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Brussels: Europe’s Pimp City, by Julie Bindel (@bindelj) Belgium, famous for its chocolate, beer and EU officials, has more recently acquired a less salubrious notoriety: in 2022, it became the first country in Europe to fully decriminalise its entire sex trade. The
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