Published by UnHerd (19th January, 2024) Almost 150 years ago, a young medical student at Edinburgh University was inspired by one of his lecturers to devise a detective […]
Africa / Aid / Economics / Kenya / Technology
The African village mining Bitcoin
Published by UnHerd (5th January, 2024) Bondo is a scattered cluster of villages in a remote region of Malawi near the border with Mozambique. It sits in the […]
China / North Korea / World
How to escape North Korea
Published by UnHerd (21st November, 2023) When Kim Seungeun first visited North Korea, he saw a barren land devastated by famine, its trees stripped by people desperate to […]
United States / World
My night out with the Proud Boys
Published by UnHerd (19th September, 2023) When I first met the leader of the Proud Boys, he was relaxing over a burger and chicken wings in an Irish […]
China / Covid19 / World
The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
Published by UnHerd (28th July, 2023) “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the […]
Africa / Europe / Russia / South Africa / Ukraine
South Africa isn’t neutral on Ukraine
Published by UnHerd (7th June, 2023) “Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division among us: between those who cherish democracy and those who […]
Covid19
Why did Peter Daszak change his mind?
Published by UnHerd (12th April, 2023) Peter Daszak spent many years hunting down bat viruses with Chinese scientists, helped fund their cutting-edge research in Wuhan, and then vociferously led […]
Covid19
The real Covid conspiracy
Published by UnHerd (11th March, 2023) The departing director of the world’s second biggest philanthropic donor and one of the most influential funders of scientific research was doing […]
Economics
How the UK sacrificed its car industry
Published by UnHerd (15th February, 2023) Will Britain, as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have both promised, really turn into the “next Silicon Valley”? It is bold talk. […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Why would you envy the NHS?
Published by UnHerd (18th January, 2023) They say the first step in fixing a crisis is to recognise there is a problem. So let us give thanks for […]
Aid / Economics / United States / World
Sam Bankman-Fried’s elitist altruism
Published by UnHerd (November 23rd, 2022) Elizabeth Holmes dressed in the same style every day: black turtleneck sweater, black slacks, and black low-slung shoes. This “uniform” underlined her […]