Economics
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
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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
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures