Economics
Manufacturing Lies
Factories of elite opinion like the Economist will fail if they produce shoddy goods
Greek good news
Budget balancing works — and naive spendthrift Keynesianism doesn’t
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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
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
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
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics