Economics
The politics of biology and its share price
Can talent quota restrictions based on biology really deliver increased profits, productivity and gain?
Is this the end of Western liberal democracy?
We need to appreciate the inherent messiness that permeates Western societies, rather than seeking to repudiate it
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
The Keynesian comeback
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories
China’s Long March
How should the UK and its allies treat the rise of China?
The balance of power
Economics will be key in the looming new Cold War between the US and China
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
What price coronavirus?
Politicians had no choice but to order a national lockdown — but the cost to the country may still be too great
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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
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The strange death of Christian Scotland
Scotland’s religious traditions have been swept away. Now, secular intolerance rules
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
It’s all so difficult
Keir Starmer is struggling to rationalise the obviously stupid
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
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