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Does Starmer really think politics is 'riddled' with misogyny?
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (837+ words) Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the BBC that politics is "riddled with shocking misogyny. To be fair to the Prime Minister, his arm has been twisted somewhat. Following a series of scandals, including Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein…...
The West’s great infantile disorder
3+ week, 6+ day ago (521+ words) Would you like to choose your hold music?" inquires the automated voice. The tone is solicitous, therapeutic, and infantilising. You are not addressed as an adult citizen conducting business, but a vulnerable subject whose emotional state must be stabilised before…...
New EHRC guidance reinforces gender stereotypes
3+ mon, 2+ hour ago (282+ words) The gender ideology lobby has obfuscated for too long. Credit: Getty But what if they don't seem to be telling the truth? When sex is in question, is gender the only standard of judgement on which we can rely? By…...
Trans activists still don’t understand the need for women’s refuges
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (368+ words) There is no benefit in debating key issues such as "What is a woman?" when your opponent thinks the only proof required is to declare that it is so." Credit: Getty When I asked if Webberley had always been against…...
What Margaret Atwood got wrong
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (989+ words) Kathleen Stock is contributing editor at UnHerd. What Margaret Atwood got wrong "The Handmaid's Tale' never happened Atwood enjoys being seen as a far-sighted sage. Credit: Leonardo Cendamo / Getty Images Margaret Atwood has a reputation for spookily accurate predictions about…...
Why men hate short hair
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (228+ words) Don't tell me you paid for that.' / Rosemary's Baby Long before she finds herself devouring raw meat in a pregnant fugue state, or tormented by bizarre dreams in which she's doing the horizontal mambo with the devil, the titular protagonist…...
Why feminists fell out of love
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1516+ words) Matt Feeney'is a writer based in California and the author of Little Platoons: A defense of family in a competitive age Why feminists fell out of love Mankeeping spells the death of intimacy Was marriage ever about feelings? Credits: Debrocke…...
Antisemitism row splits feminist group
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (347+ words) Before it had even started on Friday, the FiLiA feminist convention was beset by conflict and violence. Trans rights activists had smashed windows at the Brighton Convention Centre, claiming the conference " Europe's biggest feminist event, with more than 2,500 delegates " was…...
The future of feminism is childcare
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1423+ words) Valerie Stivers is a senior editor of UnHerd US. The future of feminism is childcare Focus on the work-motherhood conflict Love and care are outdated evolutionary impulses, some argue. Credit: Getty The great insoluble conflict of modern womanhood " what if…...
Who's afraid of a woke witch?
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (1336+ words) Poppy Sowerby is'an UnHerd'columnist Who's afraid of a woke witch? Hexes won't beat the patriarchy "Modern witchcraft seems like a big interpretative dance group.' Getty When Charlie Kirk was shot dead on the campus of Utah Valley University last week,…...