Economics
The problem with “poverty”
A campaign against inequality is masquerading as a campaign against poverty
Zack Polanski is a post-literate politician
The influencer politician cannot understand the substance of policy
Broken bonds
Can Britain’s social safety net be rewoven?
Our economic problems are bigger than we think
The failings of Rachel Reeves are only a small aspect of our economic dysfunction
Immigration policy needs a reality check
On average, migrants from different backgrounds have different outcomes
Rachel Reeves doesn’t understand basic economics
The Budget is based on ignorance as well as irresponsibility
The Budget was nakedly ideological
Does this dying government want to take the country with it?
Should we tax the poor more?
This is the unavoidable conclusion of Modern Monetary Theory
How the budget could backfire
Delivering a successful budget might have become politically impossible
Moralism posing as economics
From gambling to billionaires, moral crusades are being dressed up as pragmatism
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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
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state