Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
NHS worship is over
Britons no longer whisper their doubts about the NHS and immigration
Rachel Reeves doesn’t understand basic economics
The Budget is based on ignorance as well as irresponsibility
Spending like there’s no tomorrow
The endless cycle of spending and debt has always been a choice
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Critical briefing: Belgian Channel crossings
How the geographical spread of Channel crossings has been widening
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system