James Pockney
James Pockney is an emerging markets investor and chairman of African Power Corporation
Fair cop
When he gave you a punishment he’d ask if you agreed it was fair
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
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
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
