Economics
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Britain’s economy is in no state to weather another crisis
Rachel Reeves must stop doubling down on bad economic ideas and try something new
What did Reeves have up her sleeve?
Mel Stride failed to knock the Chancellor off her stride
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
On operating profits and gross ignorance
Economic ignorance can have serious costs
The problem with protectionism
Choice is the foundation of a successful economy
We can’t afford not to reform public sector pensions
Reform would eliminate one of Britain’s largest long-term liabilities
Andy Burnham doesn’t understand economics
His plan to “re-industrialise” illustrates devastating economic illiteracy
Is Mark Carney a Straussian?
The rules-based order might have been based on fiction but fiction is essential in politics
The mistakes of Manchesterism
Andy Burnham is being unrealistic about growth
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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
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
On a winning streak
Eventually streaks end, but it does not have to be The End
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Zackonomics is incoherent and outdated
Zack Polanski is a great political entrepreneur but he is terrible at economics
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?