Artillery Row
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering