Jonathan Ford
Jonathan Ford is a freelance writer and presents the A Long Time in Finance podcast. He tweets at @Grepsul and his podcast handle is @ALTIFpodcast
Getting our lame ducks in a row
Government energy policy is fuelling the collapse of Britain’s dwindling manufacturing sector
Ed Miliband’s undimmed Green zealotry
Labour insiders are concerned by the energy secretary
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
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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
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
