Martin Vander Weyer
Martin Vander Weyer’s latest book is The Good, the Bad and the Greedy: Why We’ve Lost Faith in Capitalism.
The bank that grew fat on cocaine
Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals
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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
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
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
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
