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Does anyone even understand productivity?
Economic measurements can be a lot more complicated than they seem
Parents, teach your children about supply and demand
Too often, young people are turkeys voting for Christmas
The myth of Sunakos
What if you got everything you wanted and did not deserve?
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
Tensions in Ireland were bound to boil over
The Irish have had enough of being lectured
Silent night
The agony of global Christianity goes unheard in the West
Dave lords it
Red Meat Rishi is looking forward to Christmas
Fightin’ around the Christmas tree
How should we talk about politics with our “evil” relatives?
Proving evil
Hyperscepticism about appalling crimes dishonours the dead
Educating Hugo
Professor Gove invites a lowly barrister to his advanced seminar in political ethics
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to