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JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (486+ words) UnHerd JD Vance is right to question the dollar’s supremacy “The dollar’s status as the world’s principal reserve currency has enabled the US to live beyond its means.” (Scott Olson/Getty) More international students won’t fix UK’s doomed universities For…...
More international students won’t fix UK’s doomed universities
13+ hour, 33+ min ago (238+ words) Higher education is caught in a race to the bottom. (Chris Harris/Getty) On Saturday, the Financial Times reported that at least 22 British universities are offering discounts on postgraduate study for international students. The newspaper called it a “price war…...
Robbie Williams is trivialising autism
15+ hour, 2+ min ago (303+ words) ‘Until relatively recently, a psychiatric or neurological diagnosis was something most people hoped to avoid.’ (Andreas Rentz/Getty) Williams seems very happy with this turn of events. “I actually fucking love [the diagnosis],” he told an audience at a Q…...
USS Abraham Lincoln shows the Navy is badly overstretched
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (272+ words) The ship had expected to be back home in June. Credit: Getty Poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier have rocked US media and military circles this week. Distraught family members have described the precarious mental health of…...
Emergency phone alerts are the Government’s new authoritarian tool
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (205+ words) “The alert system is already becoming the voice of Big Brother in very non-emergency situations.” (Rasid Necati Aslim/ Getty) Admittedly, I grew up in the countryside, where all these things were both common sense and spelled out on large signs…...
Germany is sleepwalking into a surveillance state
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (202+ words) The AfD is among those who could be targeted by new intelligence powers. (Sean Gallup/Getty) Yet Germany’s political context imbues them with another, more disturbing quality. Dobrindt lauded the fact that intelligence services will gain “active powers to tackle…...
The SNP has turned welfare into a political machine
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (379+ words) The Scottish Government is spending beyond its means. Credit: Getty As well as being a nice little earner, it also provides a great deal of potential votes. For nearly 20 years, the Nationalists used generous fiscal transfers from the UK Exchequer…...
University of Michigan is coddling students by ditching grades
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (592+ words) UnHerd University of Michigan is coddling students by ditching grades Michigan has adopted a “grade covering” policy that will not record first-semester freshman grades. Credit: Getty Kemi Badenoch is the real loser of the Clacton by-election The University of Michigan,…...
How to Nixonmaxx the right way
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (870+ words) Nixon’s foreign policy initiatives, like opening up to China, were pragmatic, not utopian. Credit: Getty But Nixon’s prison-worthy crimes and his personal flaws don’t discredit “Nixonism” — defined as a governing philosophy, relevant in our day as in his, with three…...
Eric Hobsbawm's age of contradictions
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (171+ words) Eric Hobsbawm at the Hay festival in 2009. (David Levenson/Getty) Soon after, Eric was moved again, this time to the apparent calm of North London, before he went up to Cambridge, where he read history. Hobsbawm chose the subject, he…...