Economics
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
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
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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
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone