Adam Smith
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley