Economics
The coming apart of the deal
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be optimistic about Trump are convincing no one
Of course VAT is a barrier to trade
Trump’s tariffs are misguided, yes, but we should be more honest about our economics
The triple lock must go
Young people are suffering because politicians are too scared to risk their political futures
The British establishment is not driven by profit
The idea that it sees Britain as an “economic zone” is a palatable fantasy
Going downhill
A bad week is only getting worse for Rachel Reeves
Playtime’s over
It was an austere Spring Statement for an austere government
The case for lowering the minimum wage
It is a major and predictable cause of youth unemployment
Britain must lower the cost of crime
The lawful majority are suffering from the effects of the criminal minority
The South African Expropriation Act is dangerous and wrong
It would trample on property rights and endanger the economy
Lessons from King Alfred
The Edington Fellowship and the future of Britain
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The right has a conspiracy problem
Conspiracies exist — but the temptation to use them as an all-purpose explanation is wrongheaded
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Mahmood music
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a lot less tough than they sound