#Unherd political bias free

UnHerd doesn’t have a paywall and exists purely due to the largesse of former LibDem donor and Brexit enthusiast Sir Paul Marshall, a hedge fund multi-millionaire who started his firm, in part, with money from George Soros. There are also writers like Tom Chivers, another ex-Telegraph colleague of mine, who does the ‘eminently reasonable analysis of a current event from a tediously rationalist perspective’ pieces, providing ideological air cover for the real headbangers and bringing in the FBPE crowd. UnHerd columnists include Giles Fraser - the turbulent Brexit priest and shit-stirrer - John Gray - the philosopher turned shit-stirrer - Matthew Goodwin - the man who had to eat his own book on television and shit-stirrer - and Douglas Murray - who is a shit that’s always stirring. The UnHeard looks set to be another huge and epic contribution to British public life. Before that, he wrote speeches for William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, two failed Tory leaders. Previously he had edited ConservativeHome, the 'grassroots' Tory comment website that has been owned by billionaire Michael Ashcroft since 2009. He still had a column, which he used to make a big huffy deal publicly when he quit the Conservative Party last year, to protest David Cameron wanting to stay in the EU. Montgomerie’s career to that point was perfectly summed up by Simon Childs of Vice:Įditor Tim Montgomerie is a Thatcher fan-boy who became comment editor for Times in 2013 and lasted a year before resigning. 'Today I'm unveiling the icon that will top those emails – a cow, who like our target readers, tends to avoid herds and behaves in unmissable ways as a result.'

When he announced UnHerd, Montgomerie made the now infamous comment which led to the “cow site” dig: The British news comment site, founded in 2017, is also know to its detractors as “the cow site” due to its unusual cattle-based branding.Įdited by the eminently pleasant Sally Chatterton, who I had some dealings with when I was a contracted writer on the Telegraph Comment desk, it was founded by the eminently contemptible Tim Montgomerie, a former Times columnist and recently an advisor to Boris Johnson.

#Unherd political bias free

Have you heard of UnHerd? If you’re a consumer of UK political doggerel and slightly wrongheaded assertions cloaked in the pseudo-emotion free trappings of ‘rationalism’ you may have.