Alistair Haimes
Alistair Haimes has worked with data professionally for 25 years. @AlistairHaimes
Our revels are now ended
The unavoidable tide of demographics and globalisation will bring an end to the long economic boom
Bursting the bubbles
Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?
Ignoring the Covid evidence
Far from following the science, the government turned its back on all available data
We’re all in the big numbers now
Adding up the damage Britain’s Covid-19 policies have caused
It’s hurting but it’s just not working
The government’s Covid-19 cure is worse than the virus
Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
