Ben Ramanauskas
Ben Ramanauskas is a research economist at Oxford University and a former adviser to the UK's Secretary of State for International Trade.
Why I have hope in Liz
Truss is an optimistic politician who has been underestimated by her detractors
Do we need a trade deal with the US?
Now is the time for the UK to reassess priorities
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Housing hypocrisy
The mainstream parties are betraying the aspirations of young people
We should open our borders to the victims of Putin
Immigration is a potent weapon in the war on authoritarianism
Australia is not a goldmine
Trade with Australia is good for Britain, but it can’t replace Europe
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
