Economics
Lunching on the FT
Its analysis betrays its biases again
Porn on trial
The exploitative economics of online pornography
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics
Don’t cry for Harold Macmillan
Retro Toryism can’t save the Conservatives
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
The Cosa Nostra in suits
Big business acts as a mafia, squeezing suppliers and raising prices for customers
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
The wise gnomes of Zurich
Why is Switzerland’s rate of inflation so much lower than that of Britain and the USA?
Housing hypocrisy
The mainstream parties are betraying the aspirations of young people
Reasons for Rishi to be cheerful
Soaring inflation means the Chancellor can avoid an unpopular tax hike
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
