Economics
Free trade is worth billions
Ministers need to send Brexit modelers back to re-do their sums
Grow Britain by getting out of the way
Gove has swallowed the opposition’s patronising rationalisations of Brexit, along with their economically illiterate solutions
Beware of the bull
The post-Covid stock market boom will be brought to an end by rising inflation
Economical with the truth
Deconstructing the left’s Cuban blockade fantasy is a matter of numbers
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Institutional amnesia
Central bankers have forgotten the crucial monetary lessons of the past
The wilder the party, the bigger the hangover
The post-Covid recovery is set to roar, but will surely bring inflation in its wake
Letter from Washington: The meaning of Bidenomics
How revolutionary is the president’s economic agenda?
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
The politics of biology and its share price
Can talent quota restrictions based on biology really deliver increased profits, productivity and gain?
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Very naughty boys
Progressive parenting is all very well but sometimes misbehaviour needs a firmer approach
