Joe Hackett
Joe Hackett is a writer based in London. He writes in a personal capacity and tweets at @JCS_H94
Think tanks have to think again
Policy wonks either have to work within the system we’ve got or change it
Target practice gone wrong
The RAF’s recruitment scandal exposes loopholes in the Equality Act
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
Britons need real ownership, not feudal leaseholds
We should shake up an outdated and restrictive system that offers a simulation of property ownership
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists