Economics
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
