Escaping Britain’s low-wage trap
Only sustained wage growth will restore trust in the economy
The sick man of Europe
Britain is caught in a doom spiral of low wages and high welfare
Cards on the table
Failure to reform problem gambling is harming millions and costing us billions
Who will offer a vision for national renewal?
Britain needs major reform, not managerial tinkering
Back to the future
How Hunt’s embrace of technology risks repeating Blair’s folly
Back to Blair
This budget offers nothing but managed decline
Them’s the breaks
Why Johnson was never a postliberal
Doubling down, not levelling up
Why Gove’s plan is dead on arrival
Thanks, but no thanks
Thanks giving in Highgate
How siege warfare returned
Dark histories offer insight into our dark present
Peace breaks out (in parliament)
Ancient enmities were set aside and a ceasefire was agreed, but James Cleverly was still fighting in the trenches
Bruckner: Anton … and on
Bruckner and the German soul
Antisemitism and the discourse of privilege
Progressives hierarchies are not kind to liberal Jews
Fanfares for the common man
Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success
Espionage and the cost of living crisis
Underpaid and overworked staffers are an easy target for Chinese cash
A boring night in Zaporizhia
Hope and struggle in a city with no time for fatigue
Are Christians complicit in Palestinian suffering?
An open letter to theologians deserves an answer — here’s mine
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
The making of Sunak
The P.M. has the brittle self-confidence of a true Wykehamist
