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Challenging the herd with bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture. Subscribe to UnHerd here: unherd.com/join
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    Jul 15
    How David Miliband failed upwards, by Ian Birrell (@ianbirrell) David Miliband is on manoeuvres. Westminster’s lobby stenographers have been busy quoting ‘friends’ on his readiness to serve in the Cabinet if offered a top job, backed up by a barrage of claims that Andy Burnham
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    Burnham’s afternoon of the long knives, by Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) Even before he returned to Parliament, I said that Burnham would need to be ruthless with high profile Starmer supporters. In truth, I couldn’t see it happening, partly because of their institutional
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    ‘Conflating the spread of untruths with that of things you’d like to be untruths does nothing to promote media literacy.’ Read @glosswitch 👇
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    Government misinformation report has a gender blind spot
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    Shabana Mahmood: human shield, by Samuel Rubinstein (@si_rubinstein) Shabana Mahmood is probably the only Labour politician with a serious chance of carrying out the public will on immigration. Burnham seems, for now, to recognise as much. Her task is simple enough: to act
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    A new Government-backed report provides recommendations on addressing the harms of fake news. But nowhere does it mention the lies spread about gender-critical feminists, writes @glosswitch 👇
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    The World Cup was the last vestige of uncommercialised sport. Now the world’s game is transforming into ‘soccer’, laments @DuncanMoench 👇
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    Don’t let Fifa Americanise future World Cups
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    Lee David Evans
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    "Burnham’s first claim, about political power, is absurd. Far from being centralised, in recent decades power has been devolved across the United Kingdom... Burnham’s very ascent to No. 10 is a testament to this: he has become Prime Minister on the basis of serving for almost a
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    ‘Denying the reality of Britain’s political model is a poor start for Burnham’s analysis of Britain.’ Read @LeeDavidEvansUK on the new PM's first speech 👇 buff.ly/nJ24uCz
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    ‘Fifa has embraced spectacle, profit, and cronyism over the purity of the world’s most beautiful game.’ @DuncanMoench on the assault on football's integrity 👇
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    ‘Denying the reality of Britain’s political model is a poor start for Burnham’s analysis of Britain.’ Read @LeeDavidEvansUK on the new PM's first speech 👇
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    Andy Burnham’s anti-Thatcherism is built on a myth
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    Delighted to see @HavryshkoMarta make her debut in @unherd with a great piece on the unholy alliance between Ukrainian liberals, neo-Nazis and the war lobby! Critical Ukrainian voices have too long been suppressed in the West. “A significant portion of Ukraine’s cultural and
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    Today, Andy Burnham spoke of undoing Thatcher’s legacy during his time in office. But the new PM doesn’t understand what he’s trying to change, writes @LeeDavidEvansUK 👇
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    Andy Burnham’s anti-Thatcherism is built on a myth
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    Jones, Kyle, Reed, Lammy, Hermer, Reeves all gone. It’s an extraordinary clear out. I said Burnham needed to do this months ago. I thought he’d be too nice! I’m pleasantly surprised… unherd.com/2026/05/what-b…
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    I'm in @unherd this morning discussing the spectre haunting Britain and his attempts to rehabilitate his reputation in recent months. We must never allow the public to forget what happened the last time Britain trusted Boris. 📖: unherd.com/newsroom/boris…
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    "I saw a woman clad in a full hijab and an Argentina shirt in front of me. It was a reminder, as much as this World Cup final has bizarrely become about a longstanding Middle Eastern conflict, that some Arab Muslims may just really like Messi." @unherd
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    In New York, the World Cup final becomes a Gaza proxy war
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