Business
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
The Employment Rights Act is wrong for employment
It is terribly expensive and miserably burdensome
The Employment Rights Act’s true cost
The Employment Rights Act promises better wellbeing, but the Government’s own numbers point to higher costs, weaker growth and fewer jobs.
The government is regulating the economy to death
Businesses cannot prosper inside a regulatory straitjacket
Don’t panic about rare earths
If China will not export them, they can be found elsewhere
The City regulator’s mission creep
Why is the FCA trying to regulate “non-financial misconduct”?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards