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UnHerd
''UnHerd'' is a British news and opinion website founded in July 2017. Content ''UnHerd'' was founded in 2017 by conservative British political activist Tim Montgomerie, who also acted as editor. Following Montgomerie's departure in September 2018, journalist Sally Chatterton, who previously wrote for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Independent'', took over as editor. Freddie Sayers joined the magazine in 2019 as executive editor, having previously been editor-in-chief of YouGov and founder of the British news and current affairs website ''Politics Home''. , the website lists 23 staff. Its columnists include Giles Fraser, Justin Webb, Carl Miller, Ed West, Tanya Gold, John Gray, James Bloodworth, Matthew Goodwin, Maurice Glasman, Julie Bindel, Meghan Murphy, Michael Tracey, Douglas Murray, Paul Embery, Kathleen Stock and Ian Birrell. In March 2020, ''UnHerd'' launched a YouTube channel named LockdownTV, taking its name from the lockdowns implemented around the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Murray (author)
Douglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British author and political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. He is also an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine ''The Spectator''. Murray has also written columns for publications such as ''The Wall Street Journal''. Murray's books include '' Neoconservatism: Why We Need It'' (2005), ''Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry'' (2011) about the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, ''The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'' (2017), '' The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity'' (2019), and ''The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason'' (2022). Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Sohrab Ahmari have praised Murray's work and writing on Islam in Europe. French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has said of Murray, "Whether one agrees with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bloodworth (journalist)
James Bloodworth is an English journalist and writer. Early years Originally from Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, Bloodworth studied politics at Nottingham Trent University and completed a master's degree in political journalism at City University in London, where he has lived since 2010. Writing career A former member of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers' Liberty, he edited the left-wing blog ''Left Foot Forward'' from 2013 until 2016. Bloodworth previously wrote a weekly column for the '' International Business Times'' and wrote for ''The Spectator''s Coffee House blog from 2013 to 2015. His work has also appeared in ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''UnHerd''. He currently writes a weekly column for the ''New Statesman'' and writes features for ''The Times Magazine''. Books Bloodworth is the author of ''The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs'' (Biteback Publishing) which was published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 8 March 1961) is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the ''New Statesman'', ''UnHerd'', '' Tablet'' and '' Spiked''. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009. Early life and education Glasman was born in Walthamstow, north-east London into a Jewish family and brought up in Palmers Green. His father Coleman "Collie" Glasman, a Labour Zionist, had a small toy manufacturing business that eventually collapsed while his mother Rivie Glasman, the daughter of a poor family from Stamford Hill, was a lifelong Labour supporter. Glasman was educated at Clapton Jewish Day School (now Simon Marks Jewish Primary School) and the Jews' Free School, where he won an exhibition to study Modern History at St Cathar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Birrell
Ian Birrell is a British journalist and former speechwriter to Prime Minister David Cameron. He has been a columnist at several newspapers including the '' i'' and ''UnHerd''. From 1998 to 2010, Birrell was deputy editor-in-chief of ''The Independent''. Education Birrell was educated at Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic boarding independent school for boys (now coeducational), in the village of Ampleforth in North Yorkshire, followed by the University of Aberdeen. Journalism Birrell has reported as a foreign correspondent for British newspapers from Egypt, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, and others. Birrell is a campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities and autism who are locked up in British psychiatric institutions. He has investigated and written extensively on this issue and has received several awards for this work. Birrell reported on the case of 12-year-old Billy Caldwell from Northern Ireland who needed medical ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Fraser
Giles Anthony Fraser (born 27 November 1964)Fraser, Rev. Canon Dr Giles Anthony , ''Who's Who'' is an English , journalist and broadcaster who has served as Vicar of St Anne's Church, Kew, since 2022. He is a regular contributor to '' Thought for the Day'' and '''' and a panellist on '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Montgomerie
Timothy Montgomerie (born 24 July 1970) is a British political activist, blogger, and columnist. He is best known as the co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice and as creator of the ConservativeHome website, which he edited from 2005 until 2013, when he left to join ''The Times''. He was formerly the newspaper's comment editor, but resigned in March 2014. On 17 February 2016, Montgomerie resigned his membership of the Conservative Party, citing the leadership's stance on Europe, which was then supportive of EU membership. In 2019, he was briefly a special adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, advising on social justice issues. Montgomerie has been described as "one of the most important Conservative activists of the past 20 years", and in February 2012, ''The Observer'' said that "In the eyes of most MPs, Montgomerie sone of the most influential Tories outside the cabinet." Early life Montgomerie was born into an army family in Barnstaple in 1970. He said in a ''Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Embery
Paul Embery is a British author, political commentator, and trade union activist. He has worked as a columnist for ''UnHerd'' and '' Huffington Post'', and has hosted ''The Political Correction'' segment of GB News. Embery is a member of the Blue Labour campaign movement. Biography Embery was born and raised in Dagenham. He served as a firefighter with the London Fire Brigade and was on the executive council of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), serving as the regional secretary of the Fire Brigades Union in London. He became a member of the Labour Party in 1994. In March 2019, Embery spoke at the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave rally in London. As a result, he was dismissed from his role from the Fire Brigades Union and barred from being a Fire Brigades Union official for two years as the FBU stated Embery's decision to speak at the rally violated their anti-Brexit policy. The decision was criticised by politicians Kate Hoey Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey (born 21 June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marshall (investor)
Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British investor. According to the ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2020, Marshall is worth £630 million. Early life Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall was born on 2 August 1959 in Ealing, London, England, the son of Alan Marshall, managing director, Philippine Refining Company (later Unilever Philippines), and Mary Sylvia Clucas, daughter of T. S. Hanlin. His sister is the journalist Penny Marshall. When his parents moved to the Philippines and then South Africa for his father's job with Unilever, Marshall boarded at Merchant Taylors' School, in England. He boarded in the Manor of the Rose while at the school. From there he went to St John's College, Oxford, to read History and Modern Languages, and subsequently took an MBA from INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. Career He is the co-founder and chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups. Marshall Wace was founded in 1997 by Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tracey (American Journalist)
Michael Tracey (born August 8, 1988) is an American political commentator. Career Tracey has been a recurring guest on the Fox News show ''Tucker Carlson Tonight''. Tracey joined ''The Young Turks'' in January 2017 but left the organization by mid-2018. In April 2017, Tracey went to an estate sale at Kurt Eichenwald's house. Tracey photographed collections of journalistic notes on terrorists and Guantanamo Bay, as well as ties, socks and hats belonging to Eichenwald, posting the photographs in a Twitter thread. Two years later, Eichenwald described Tracey as a "bizarre dude" who snuck into his house and took pictures of his socks. In June 2017, congresswoman Maxine Waters walked away from an interview with Tracey and pushed aside his hand and microphone. The incident was captured on video. Tracey said that Waters had "initiated unwarranted physical contact" and "shoved" him, but that it was "not a violent shove".Phillips, Kristine (June 4, 2017)"Did Rep. Maxine Waters 'shov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed West (journalist)
Ed West is a British author, journalist and blogger, who is the deputy editor of ''UnHerd''. He was previously deputy editor of ''The Catholic Herald'' and a columnist for ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Spectator''. He began his career with the lads mag '' Nuts Magazine'', and has also written for the ''Evening Standard'', ''The Guardian'', '' The i'', ''The Week'', and '' Spiked''. He is the son of British journalist Richard West and Irish journalist Mary Kenny and the brother of the journalist Patrick West. While working at men's magazines, West wrote a number of short humour books, including one called ''How to Pull Women'' (2006), which he later described on his blog for ''The Daily Telegraph'' as "embarrassing." West's book, ''The Diversity Illusion'', which examines the adverse effects of mass immigration on British society, was published in April 2013. Reviewing the book, Peter Oborne described West as "one of the most interesting of the rising generation of political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold (born 31 December 1973) is an English freelance journalist. Career Gold has written for British newspapers, including ''The New York Times'' ''The Guardian'', the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Independent'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Sunday Times'', the ''Evening Standard'', ''New Statesman'' and for ''The Spectator'' magazine. In 2009, she was commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the British Press Awards The Press Awards, formerly the British Press Awards, is an annual ceremony that celebrates the best of British journalism. History Established in 1962 by '' The People'' and '' World's Press News'', the first award ceremony for the then-named .... In 2010, she won Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards and was also nominated for Columnist of the Year. Gold is an avowed republican. References External links * 1973 births Living people People from the London Borough of Merton English Jews Alumni of Merton College, Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Lockdowns
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions colloquially known as lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions) have been implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world. These restrictions were established with the intention to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9 billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments. Although similar disease control measures have been used for hundreds of years, the scale of those implemented in the 2020s is thought to be unprecedented. Research and case studies have shown that lockdowns were generally effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, therefore flattening the curve. The World Health Organization's recommendation on curf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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