Jesse Norman
Jesse Norman MP is a government minister and biographer of Adam Smith. His latest book, The Winding Stair appears this month.
Unpacking an economic titan
Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist
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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
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 EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
Politicians can’t handle free speech
The more criticism ministers receive online, the more determined they become to regulate what everyone else can say
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
