Economics
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
Britain must balance its books
We have to face the facts and stop excessive spending
MPs should have to earn pay rises
Let’s link the pay of MPs to economic performance
Europe must stop lying to itself
Systematic mistruths are crippling our economies
Turning virtue into vice
Be wary of excitable claims about the cost of eating healthily
Taxing ourselves poor
A system of global taxation would benefit no one
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation