Joanna Marchong
Joanna Marchong is Head of Communications and External Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute. She tweets at @marchong_joanna
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
The Green lobby goes quiet
Britain’s environmental NGOs once waged holy war on Tory planning reform — now, under Labour, their outrage has given way to a conspicuous silence.
The crime gap
Official data says Britain is safer, but everyday encounters with disorder are eroding public confidence
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
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
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
