The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
The NHS is not underfunded
Inefficiency, not underfunding, is at the root of its ills
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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
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Protecting what matters
The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere