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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
