Jethro Elsden
Jethro Elsden is Chief Economist at TYI Group and previously worked on regulation policy in DBT and the Cabinet Office. He tweets @JethroFElsden
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
A new lost decade
Echoes of the 1920s are growing louder and unless we act, we may repeat the complacency of the 1930s too
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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.
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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
