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250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.

MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer

The recently deceased Scots journalist and author

Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks

The government’s new integration and extremism policy exposes a regime in denial

Britain must take inspiration from the Netherlands

It has become too bloated and too expensive

Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful

Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work

New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance