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‘Homelessness in New York City is trending in the wrong direction, and the Mayor will have to devise a plan sooner rather than later.’ | Stephen Eide buff.ly/KPoARsR

‘As the Tories threaten to overtake Reform in the polls, Farage may be looking for ways to broaden his support on the British Right.’ | Rob Lownie unherd.com/newsroom/why...

Past protest movements against Vučić had always generated excitement, only to peter out within a few months. But the student-led protests never slowed down. And now it will form a government.| Lily Lynch unherd.com/2026/10/how-...

Lula’s victory tells a broader story. A story about a war: the class war that the few are waging against the many across the Western world. | Yanis Varoufakis unherd.com/2026/10/why-...

‘Britain is unlikely to run out of gas this winter but that doesn’t mean the population can relax, as real supply challenges become more threatening each year.’ | Kathryn Porter unherd.com/newsroom/bri...

Normal without being boring, charming without feeling pompous, Burnham’s personal qualities are enhanced by the chaos preceding him. He is, for many, a welcome antidote to the broiling disorder of Southport, Southampton and Gosport in recent years. | Aaron Bastani unherd.com/2026/10/chai...

Viktor Orbán has won five national elections, four with supermajorities. His record puts many of the liberals elevated to international office to shame, writes Philip Cunliffe👇 buff.ly/92A42bx

A Canadian election has exposed the limits of MAGA’s global appeal. The Right can win without importing Trump’s politics, writes Yuan Yi Zhu 👇 buff.ly/h76rf7e

‘Expanding the Supreme Court on a partisan basis is a direct assault on the rule of law and neutral principles that make liberal democracy possible.’ | Kyle Sammin unherd.com/newsroom/dem...

‘Nigel Farage needs to hold together voters who want a radical Right-wing party and voters who simply want the party most likely to remove Labour. These ambitions overlap, but they are not identical.’ | David Jeffery unherd.com/newsroom/ref...

Arab voters, whose theoretical electoral weight exceeds 20 seats in the 120-member Knesset, largely share the goal of the Jewish opposition's so-called 'change bloc' to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Florit Shoihet buff.ly/hE5ulIi

I for one am optimistic about Britain's future. Our country has the capability not just to survive in our radically changing world, but to thrive in it. | Ryan Wain buff.ly/5qebHGW

France is in the grip of social breakdown, with financial chaos looming. The urgent question now is: could it spread? Wolfgang Munchau explores how the next debt crisis might start — and how it could both destroy the eurozone and scar Britain’s economy. unherd.com/2026/10/how-...

‘After a string of victories for the Right, that have left South America ruled almost without exception by leaders aligned with Trump’s America, Brazil has halted this trend in the most improbable manner.’ | Nick Burns unherd.com/newsroom/lul...

Labour says it has learnt the lessons of Brexit. So why is Andy Burnham floating a return to the very policy that helped make Brexit happen? Peter Franklin👇 buff.ly/5vSH0Jx

Once upon a time, comedians worried about selling out. Now Shane Gillis and Danny McBride are selling prediction markets to the masses, writes Oliver Bateman 👇 buff.ly/0pshtnj

As chocolate prices soar, Gen Z is turning to sour candy. The more violently a flavour attacks the senses, the better, writes Richard Crampton-Platt 👇 buff.ly/XOfCKva

The Met failed to pass on allegations against Meghan Markle’s father to US authorities. How did such a sensitive case slip through the cracks? Dominic Adler 👇 buff.ly/AnnNmw0

Britain is becoming a hostile environment for entrepreneurs. Next week's Budget must change that, writes Andrew O'Brien 👇 buff.ly/GTRnpUW

What did Allied pilots see in the skies over Europe? Newly released Pentagon files document mysterious lights that followed aircraft, writes @TomRtweets 👇 buff.ly/bPGxyRo

Britain has no leading frontier AI developer of its own. It is now seeking powers to regulate the foreign companies on which it depends, writes Elle Smith 👇 unherd.com/newsroom/bri...

‘A heavy-handed response from the state may ultimately not achieve the goal of defending the Republic if those who feel attacked strike back.’ | Susanne Mundschenk unherd.com/newsroom/mac...

In order to win in 2028, Democrats will have to appeal to those who voted for Trump — that means the party will have to ditch radical Leftist ideas | Daniel Kalder unherd.com/newsroom/rom...

‘Anyone who opposes Darline because they regard Lindsey as a hypocrite or a national security liability has probably already made up their mind’ | Emily Jashinsky unherd.com/newsroom/lin...

‘Is urging Ukraine toward probable destruction really what true friends should be doing?’ | Anatol Lieven unherd.com/newsroom/ukr...

Labour wants growth, energy security and economic resilience. But when it comes to Rosebank, its green 'pragmatism' looks remarkably unpragmatic, writes Jonny Ball👇 buff.ly/wis9X1O

‘Many media outlets have thrown their editorial polling standards out the window, with internal poll-vetting capabilities gutted as a casualty of newsroom cutbacks’ | Evan Roth Smith unherd.com/newsroom/how...

‘Retreat would hand Reform a devastating attack line: Burnham knows there is a problem with immigration, but he lacks the backbone to tackle it.’ | David Jeffery unherd.com/newsroom/wil...

‘Words like “cis”, “cervix-haver”, and “transmisogyny” separates the enlightened from the benighted, those au fait with university-curdled gender theory from the hoi polloi.’ | Jo Bartosch unherd.com/newsroom/jk-...

‘The standard reportorial protocol in many stories about terrorists or terror suspects is to foreground their residency status while downplaying, or omitting altogether, their nationality or place of birth’ | Simon Cottee unherd.com/newsroom/why...

Only a small fraction of the Democrat base wants to impeach Hegseth — the party would be better off focusing on the economy rather than political stunts | Michael Baharaeen unherd.com/newsroom/imp...

‘In both Britain and France, governments have been tough on rioting, but not the causes of rioting — which means that riots keep happening.’ | Peter Franklin unherd.com/newsroom/fra...

‘A significant proportion of excess deaths in care homes may have actually been caused by policies aimed at preventing Covid spread rather than by Covid itself.’ | David Paton unherd.com/newsroom/the...

Ed Miliband, it has been alleged, continues to block investment in data centres, even as foreign secretary — though he denies it. | Tom Ough buff.ly/el5q4NP

The dissonance between the Europe of the Remainiac imagination and the actually-existing EU grows wider by the day — not least given the recent disorder in France. | Jonny Ball buff.ly/cuQIxcH

In matters of the heart, everybody is choosy. Desire isn’t a sort of public utility, distributed like volts on the national grid. | Poppy Sowerby unherd.com/2026/10/wome...

Labour has finally taken action against people who spew noise from their phones on public transport — but letting devices be ‘quiet’ rather than silent is a cop-out | Will Solfiac unherd.com/newsroom/lab...

‘There is no real way to live cheaply and under the radar for a long time, developing craft and insight. Make or break is implied from the beginning’ | Matthew Gasda unherd.com/newsroom/the...

‘Anti-Zionism is increasingly becoming not only a viable political position on the Left but a litmus test for ideological purity’ | Sam Kahn unherd.com/newsroom/dem...

Altai was, perhaps, Eliot’s “broken king”, but he defended his tiny territory with the vigour of the Lord of the Forest. | Polly Clark unherd.com/2026/10/a-life-with-siberian-tigers/

‘A pact between the Lib Dems and Labour would pave the road to ruin for both.’ | Lee David Evans unherd.com/newsroom/lab...

I myself was called a Zionist! I had said I understood why some European Jews, in 1945, were attracted to the Israeli cause in the aftermath of the Holocaust. But for the virtue hoarders, of course, that signalled little more than my own moral depravity. | Aaron Bastani unherd.com/2026/10/why-...

Observing this, my thought was: but this isn’t the future for America! This is recent American history. | Mary Harrington on the French riots unherd.com/2026/10/france-has-not-fallen/

‘The persistent pattern since the Brexit vote is that Britain’s leaders have refused to accept the responsibility thrust upon them’ | Philip Cunliffe unherd.com/newsroom/lab...

‘The real story of Trump’s relationship with women in his circle is much more interesting than the narrative that he sees them essentially as sex workers.’ | Emily Jashinsky unherd.com/newsroom/wom...

‘One way or another, the Takaichi era is likely to bring about a sea change to Japan’s defence strategy.’ | Philip Patrick unherd.com/newsroom/jap...

The war will end eventually, most likely with a dirty peace deal that will leave the Europeans in shock. | Wolfgang Münchau unherd.com/2026/10/trum...

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ registers as not just quaint and silly but downright ideological. The film is a publicity coup for its ostensible villain, Mark Zuckerberg. | Matt Feeney Read more from Matt Feeney: unherd.com/2026/10/what...

UK terrorism watchdog Jonathan Hall has claimed that free speech is being weaponised to undermine democracy | Rob Lownie unherd.com/newsroom/uk-...

Macron has been described as ‘a man who thinks he's Jupiter but governs like a McKinsey intern who accidentally became emperor’. In a crucial decade, this is exactly what the nation did not need. | Ann-Elisabeth Moutet unherd.com/2026/10/how-...