Artillery Row
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
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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
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
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
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon