Len Shackleton
Len Shackleton is an Editorial and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
