Economics
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
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
