Capitalism
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
The great extraction
Remittances sit at the heart of Britain’s migration model, yet no one is talking about them
On operating profits and gross ignorance
Economic ignorance can have serious costs
The problem with protectionism
Choice is the foundation of a successful economy
The Right must stop playing the victim
Voters back a strong horse, not a plaintive loser
Have shoppers had enough of woke branding?
ESG principles are embedded within our corporate culture
Working people
The latest innovation of the nomenklatura class and their apparatchik subordinates
Potatoes, pigs and peat
A not-so-definitive account of Ireland’s Great Famine
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to