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It’s the money supply, stupid
How the Keynesian blinkers of Democrat economists led to a second Trump victory
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
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
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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
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Has Donald Trump saved Pedro Sánchez’s career?
Criticism from the widely unpopular American president is a political boon for the Spanish prime minister
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent