Economics
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
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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
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold