Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman is Director of Competition Policy at the International Centre for Law and Economics.
Why the government’s planning overhaul won’t fix the housing crisis
Don’t waste an opportunity to solve Britain’s biggest problem
Live free and die: Sweden’s coronavirus experience
What have we learnt from the coronavirus outlier?
Why the coronavirus shutdown is worth it
Decisive action to slow the spread of Covid-19 is a no brainer
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
The EU is coming for “hate speech”
The European Commission is considering including “hate speech” in a list of serious bloc-wide crimes
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions