UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers meets Leonid Ragozin.

Leonid Ragozin was reporting in Siberia when Putin began to send troops to the Ukrainian border at Belarus. Despite the menacing signs, he was quick to voice his s…

Freddie Sayers meets Justin Bronk.

It has been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and one of many unanswered questions is why Russia has yet to launch the vast majority of its combat aircraf…

Freddie Sayers meets Andreas Umland.

This week we are being inundated with information about what is going on in Ukraine. And the challenge just to get above the noise and find out what exactly is goi…

Flo Read meets Siva, Autumn, and Ann.

Public schools in San Francisco sent their students home for 18 months during the COVID pandemic, the longest school closure in the country. While children were f…

Freddie Sayers meets Konstantin Kisin.

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, pundits from mainstream and alternative media platforms across the political spectrum have been…

Freddie Sayers meets Louis-Vincent Gave.

Since the end of November 2021, Moderna's share price has been falling dramatically, from $368 to $147 at the time of writing.

Why might this be? And what does …

Freddie Sayers meets Glenn Loury.

To get a handle on some of the race related news stories coming out of America, from Biden’s Supreme Court nomination to Joe Rogan’s cancellation, Freddie Sayers spok…

Featuring: Mary Harrington, Julie Bindel, Hadley Freeman and Sally Chatterton.

It wasn’t long ago that feminism was a united movement resisting the patriarchal systems of old. Now, disputes between fa…

Freddie Sayers meets Dr Camilla Holten-Møller, chair of the Expert Group for Mathematical Modelling at Denmark’s public health agency ‘Statens Serum Institut’.

Holten-Møller was in charge of producing…

Freddie Sayers meets Kate Clanchy.

Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher, and editor. She has been a qualified and practicing teacher since she was 22. Her writing includes three prize-winning collections…

In a wide-ranging and forthright interview with Freddie Sayers, Professor Cyrille Cohen, head of Immunology at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli …

Steve James is a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital in London. When Health Secretary Sajid Javid visited last Friday, he asked the NHS staff about what they thought of the forthcomin…

UnHerd's contributors look back at a tumultuous year.

The year began with riots in Capitol Hill in Washington and the removal of Donald Trump from social media; in March Meghan and Harry gave their in…

As new data about the Omicron variant is interpreted (and perhaps predictably, misinterpreted) by experts worldwide, South Africa has become a coronavirus case-study under global surveillance. Last w…

Since its discovery in the Gauteng province of South Africa in November, a new Covid variant has set off a spiral of harsh restrictions, travel bans and questions about the efficacy of the existing t…

Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.

She’s just returned f…

Paul Kingsnorth sees the vaccine wars as symptomatic of a bigger division between two fundamentally different world views: he calls them “thesis” and “antithesis.” When it comes to Covid, “thesis” is…

Freddie visits the Austrian capital Vienna on the day that the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated was introduced, looking for answers. How do ordinary people feel about a third of their popu…

Florence Read talks to Asra Nomani.

Education policy rarely tips the electoral scales. But following Glenn Youngkin's shock win in the Virginia governor's race, where education was the top priority fo…

As we approach Winter, murmurs of another lockdown have slowly been entering the national conversation. Just yesterday Health Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted that it was a “national mission” to get jab…