Economics
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
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
Most Read
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
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it