Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
UK manufacturing is significantly outperforming as a result of Brexit
The doomsters are wrong about Brexit — again
How to meet the demands of the new electoral majority
We can balance politics and increase productivity
Two cheers for Goodwinism
Is Matthew Goodwin right about shifting to the left on economics?
Homeostasis and the death of politics
Ignore feedback mechanisms at your peril
The renewables red herring
It is not true that high energy prices are caused by a lack of investment in renewables
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
