Economics
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
What price coronavirus?
Politicians had no choice but to order a national lockdown — but the cost to the country may still be too great
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
PAYE makes the world go round
Jamie Blackett reviews Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby
Why the coronavirus shutdown is worth it
Decisive action to slow the spread of Covid-19 is a no brainer
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
The meaningless Covid-19 models
Which, if any, expert estimates should we take seriously?
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
DEI is just good manners, really
Stripped of all its jargon, allyship is nothing more than old-fashioned gallantry
Recreational rioting
Is your right an existential threat to the nation or just blowing off steam? It depends on which flag you’re waving
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
