Economics
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
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
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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 moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus