The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
Trading blows
EU trade policy faces mixed signals from parliament and new agreements.
Europe’s stuttering nuclear renaissance
Chronic overregulation is hampering Europe’s efforts to power up
Europe is breaking the welfare taboo
Are we witnessing the end of the European welfare state?
In Brussels, the fish rots from the head
The EU is violating its own core values
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
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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
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How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under