Debt
Stuck in a Rutte
An assessment of Dutch politics under Prime Minister Mark Rutte
America’s alarming debt trap
The soaring US debt-to- GDP ratio could have major global consequences
A new covenantal politics
As the Jewish new year begins, Britain should learn from its lessons of forgiveness, renewal and trust
Biden the populist
Why are so many rightwingers plastic populists?
Reasons for Rishi to be cheerful
Soaring inflation means the Chancellor can avoid an unpopular tax hike
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Do MPs understand what Sunak admitted today?
If MPs felt the cut to foreign aid was today’s worst news then they were not listening
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Legal laughs
Legal “humour” is seldom more than mildly amusing
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
The dangers of digital media
By abandoning physical media, have we exposed ourselves to censorship and corporate control?
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
