When will they ever learn?
Silicon Valley did not need a Victorian transport system to get it started
You can’t ‘level up’ Oxbridge
It is high time we ally elite education, irrespective of background, with the service of the public good
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unconquered by a
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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
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Sex, success and failure
Sarah Ditum talks with songwriter Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear