Tony Yates
Tony Yates is an independent economist. In the past he was an advisor on monetary policy at the Bank of England, and Professor of Economics at Birmingham University. He has written on economics and politics for The Independent, Guardian, New Statesman, Times, Prospect and others.
Tom Tugendhat’s empty rhetoric
What is the government supposed to do with Tom’s “rage”?
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The sad ubiquity of political dishonesty
Is it too much to expect politicians to be straight with us sometimes?
