Economics
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
The immigration merry-go-round
Britain’s discourse on migration is a timewasting charade
Planning to fail
Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses
Does anyone even understand productivity?
Economic measurements can be a lot more complicated than they seem
Parents, teach your children about supply and demand
Too often, young people are turkeys voting for Christmas
America’s alarming debt trap
The soaring US debt-to- GDP ratio could have major global consequences
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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
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
Game of Thrones star steals the show
Steal, Amazon Prime’s enthralling new six-part financial crime thriller
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy