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Dare to think for yourself, subscribe to UnHerd here: http://unherd.com/joinhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muumsfmxss2h‘Whatever is to be made of Fetterman’s personal travails, the more important consideration here is whether the Democratic Party’s chronic inability to commit itself to winning’ | Sam Kahn https://unherd.com/newsroom/democrats-would-be-foolish-to-drop-john-fetterman/06 Sep 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muumsfmxss2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muueggjkmn2hNew data shows that over 3,500 people may use assisted dying measures if they are introduced — 60% more than previously thought — as the facts change, so will public opinion | Adam James Pollock https://unherd.com/newsroom/revised-assisted-dying-estimates-show-bill-is-not-fit-for-purpose/06 Sep 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muueggjkmn2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muu2edeib22aZia Yusuf is Reform UK’s members’ preferred choice to succeed Nigel Farage — but how would he fare against other party leaders? | Peter Franklin https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-zia-yusuf-preparing-to-succeed-farage/06 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muu2edeib22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muthwcfmur2qYesterday, anti-migrant protesters descended on Dover — but the police aren’t prepared to deal with widespread disruption from the Right | Dominic Adler https://unherd.com/newsroom/dover-migration-protests-take-advantage-of-a-weakened-police/06 Sep 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muthwcfmur2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3murxcw7qxq24‘While pubs remain a refuge from the rest of London nightlife, plenty are going down the same homogenised route as bars and restaurants’ | Richard Crampton-Platt https://unherd.com/newsroom/andy-burnham-doesnt-understand-pubs/05 Sep 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3murxcw7qxq24https://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3murivaxdod2aRussia and Ukraine are responsible for over a quarter of global grain exports. But now rising prices could have geopolitical impacts | Susanne Mundschenk https://unherd.com/newsroom/record-wheat-prices-are-causing-anxiety-in-europe/05 Sep 2026 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3murivaxdod2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muqwmfa2g72h‘A party demanding to be afforded the respect befitting a government-in-waiting cannot keep behaving like this’ | James Sean Dickson https://unherd.com/newsroom/reform-sleaze-probe-shows-farage-is-not-ready-for-power/05 Sep 2026 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqwmfa2g72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mupotgjewn27‘The lesson of the classic Snake game is that the serpent keeps eating until it eventually eats itself and dies’ | Ryan Zickgraf https://unherd.com/newsroom/team-trumps-gamer-politics-are-glitching/04 Sep 2026 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupotgjewn27https://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mupdidwgja2lJordan Bardella told Reform UK conference this afternoon that ‘the wave of immigration Europe is experiencing today is only the beginning’. | Archie Earle https://unherd.com/newsroom/jordan-bardella-europes-immigration-wave-is-only-the-beginning/04 Sep 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupdidwgja2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muoylnnrah26‘Pedro Sánchez may avoid a government collapse, but the political damage lies in the crisis of confidence building around the Spanish state itself.’ | Miquel Vila https://unherd.com/newsroom/pedro-sanchezs-ceuta-response-is-weakening-the-spanish-state/04 Sep 2026 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoylnnrah26https://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muomu6kxud27‘Even today, if you ask someone to think of “posh” names, they are very likely to pick out the ones that were common among the retainers of the man whom the Anglo-Saxons called William the Bastard.’ | Niall Gooch https://unherd.com/newsroom/britain-cant-escape-the-norman-conquest/04 Sep 2026 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muomu6kxud27https://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3muocs6w2m72bLabour MP Diane Abbott claimed this week that ‘the imminent threat from Russia is a Nato fiction.’ Does she have a point? | Anatol Lieven https://unherd.com/newsroom/does-britain-really-face-an-imminent-russian-threat/04 Sep 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muocs6w2m72bhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mumzqju26m2dJD Vance has claimed that the end times are coming — visions of the apocalypse are now common on the American Right | Samuel Rubinstein https://unherd.com/newsroom/jd-vance-embraces-his-inner-peter-thiel-with-antichrist-warning/03 Sep 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumzqju26m2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mumre3v46v2r‘Gloria Steinem injected a different image: one of America as cool and rebellious, compared to a Communist sphere that could be stodgy and even downright socially conservative. She was an agent of American soft power.’ | Sohrab Ahmari https://unherd.com/newsroom/gloria-steinem-cold-warrior-patriot-and-spy/03 Sep 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumre3v46v2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mumhchndjc2l‘Once a warming and geologically unstable mountain range becomes a workplace, natural hazard acquires a class dimension’. | Pratinav Anil https://unherd.com/2026/09/nepals-clean-energy-curse/03 Sep 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumhchndjc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mumcb77acv22‘When my grandparents were born the relations and geographies set out by Domesday Book still largely existed: parish council and agricultural labourer, inn and smithy’s forge; roads, lanes and trackways linking church.’ | Max Adams buff.ly/xTsfxup https://buff.ly/xTsfxup03 Sep 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:dbhob4ehbowinclgen27ype2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumcb77acv22https://bsky.app/profile/unherd.com/post/3mum6wfyygp2b‘When a small number of people with the most serious mental illnesses aren’t receiving adequate treatment, tragedy can ensue’ | Carolyn D. 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