Economics
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
Two cheers for Goodwinism
Is Matthew Goodwin right about shifting to the left on economics?
The road to Wigan’s tears
The Church’s drive to remake itself has been a pastoral and financial catastrophe
What went wrong with Peter Foster?
A lazy series of talking points for Remainers
A vision without a voice
Can we have Trussism without Truss?
Liz Truss: what if…?
An insider’s guide to a premiership cut short
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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
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit