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Trump has smashed the Gaza consensus

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‘In endorsing Trump’s plan, as negotiated by Witkoff, Qatar promised to rebuild Gaza; Israel promised to release prisoners and to withdraw in stages’ | Edward Luttwak

Peace in our time? Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/Getty Images

Deradicalising Gazans will be harder than any peace deal

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Palestine cannot sustain peace without ideological uprooting | Limor Simhony Philpott

The return of the remaining Israeli hostages this week has been hailed as a significant step towards lasting peace. Yet a non-violent future hinges not merely on rebuilding Gaza’s rubble-strewn…

He’s jamming. Paul Natkin/Getty Images.

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'Modern American culture is placid, unmoving, diluted' | David Masciotra

Make America jam again

Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

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New data shows that fewer and fewer American students are identifying as trans or queer. Have we passed peak woke? | Eric Kaufmann

A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young Americans. Data from my new Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among…

How Farage seduced Grantham

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‘Our own politics is still entranced by the contradictions of her vision’ | Fred Sculthorp
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‘If Thatcher’s vision for life in Grantham remains, the methods have had to change.’ Paul Ellis / AFP via Getty Images

Why trauma writers lie to us

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'The real scandal … was that no one helped Griffin get to the bottom of the story before she published a memoir destined to be exposed' | Alden Jones

Meet the black mould truthers

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‘Mould mania has even made it to the American cabinet: RFK Jr., the pseudoscience-swilling health secretary, has linked it to autism’ | Poppy Sowerby
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Peterson was said to be “near death” after CIRS. Credit: Gage Skidmore

John Swinney underestimates Scotland’s resistance to immigration

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The SNP conference was a masterclass in political theatre, a desperate effort to differentiate itself from Westminster. But voters north of the border share the same frustrations | Iain Macwhirter

Eyebrows were raised in the Scottish media pack yesterday when John Swinney appeared to declare an independent immigration policy. In his speech to the SNP’s conference, the First Minister announced…

What will the Gaza deal unleash?

UnHerd @unherd.com · 16h

‘The preeminent question today is whether the Palestinians’ physical and emotional exhaustion leads them to recalculate the costs of their beliefs and actions’ | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Will a better day dawn Jack Guez/AFP.

Nigel Farage is abandoning Thatcherism

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'Farage is now pivoting in another direction, towards a more big-state, interventionist economic model' | Jonny Ball unherd.com/newsroom/nig...

There’s a line about Nigel Farage that the Blue Labour guru Lord Glasman likes to use. At the Labour Party conference last month, when I asked the peer if he was tempted to lend his support to Reform…

Hostage return has undermined Netanyahu

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'Israel might be the only place on earth where Donald Trump is primarily a unifying rather than divisive figure' | Tobias Gisle unherd.com/newsroom/hos...

Tel Aviv Today’s events have been long-awaited. And, here in Israel, it still feels surreal. Previous hostage releases have given us images of screaming crowds at Hostage Square, citizens lining the…

Antisemitism row splits feminist group

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Why is a stall at a feminist conference selling hijabs, as well as Palestinian tea towels and keffiyehs? | Nicole Lampert

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…

Is marijuana legalisation driving a rise in psychosis?

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A study published last week found that marijuana use by people with psychosis increased nearly 10% after legalisation. Lawmakers are falling to keep the public safe | Kevin Sabet

A study published last week in JAMA Psychiatry found that marijuana use by people with psychosis increased nearly 10% after marijuana legalisation. This is a striking finding at the intersection of…

Why Human Design is perfect for our age

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‘I often ponder the great neutrino ocean because the neutrino ocean is the consciousness field’ | Alexandra Jones

Influencers have been preaching the doctrine of Human Design. Photo: Still from Amanda Horvath’s YouTube channel.

Is Uber Eats a recession indicator?

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‘Feeling their own helplessness at the doubling or tripling price of eggs, that helplessness is made bearable by transforming into something more dignified, like anger’ | Alexander Sorondo

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China’s rare-earth gambit will backfire

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China has tightened export controls on rare-earth metals. This will only increase America’s push for manufacturing independence | Miquel Vila

Late last week, Beijing escalated the US–China economic showdown, tightening export controls not just on rare earth minerals but on the refining technology that makes them usable. Within hours,…

How Nord Stream 2 has blown up Europe

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‘Europe’s unity is cracking at its eastern edge, where a relationship once central to the EU’s postwar stability is souring’ | Wolfgang Munchau

Poles apart: Friedrich Merz (l) meets Donald Tusk. (Credit: Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto/Getty)

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Trump’s recent Middle East success shows arm-twisting works where friendly overtures fail.

Can he replicate it in Ukraine? Bethany Elliott 👇

Diane Keaton: the last transcendent actress

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Diane Keaton was more than a star.

She was the last actress whose imperfection felt transcendent, writes @CFMcElwee 👇

In her 2011 memoir, Then Again, Diane Keaton recounted what she believed was her first memory. It was the mysterious sight of her mother. “It was almost as if I knew the world, and life in it, would…

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'$100bn to Ukraine, $30bn to Israel… but nobody can afford health insurance premiums.'

America's priorities are misguided, argues Marjorie Taylor Greene 👇

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One tweet, one tariff, and $200 billion gone.

Crypto’s volatility is getting worse, writes John Rapley 👇

Emmanuel Macron: the last gasp of Third Way politics

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Macron once embodied the promise of the Third Way.

Now he’s its tragic afterlife, writes Peter Franklin 👇

Has Emmanuel Macron gone mad? Following the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister and the collapse of his day-old government, hopes for a stable new government rest on the cooperation of…

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Anglicans and outsiders alike are outraged at Canterbury Cathedral's new exhibit.

Is the Church prioritising identity politics over devotion? Rose Lyddon 👇

Steve Bannon denounces Trump's Qatari airbase plan

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'MAGA is about America First and American citizens first,”' Bannon said.

'Having a military base of a foreign power is against MAGA principles.' | UnHerd Staff 👇

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Steve Bannon has warned that the US decision to host a Qatari air base in Idaho violates MAGA principles. On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a finalised agreement that will allow the…