Economics
We need a counter-deliverution
For too long, the service economy has profited from illegal immigration
Britain needs lower taxes now
We must escape our doom loop of taxing and spending
A Reformed Britain — if you can govern it
Reform must become a governing party if it is to survive
Why the Boriswave is not an economic boon
A case for optimism depends on flawed data and muddled thinking
Ground control to Major Keir
Why is British ambition perpetually sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency”?
We are being governed by economic illiterates
The establishment does not understand the relationship between producers and consumers
Just tax poor people
It is just that recipients of state benefits should pay more for them
What is the point of economic growth?
GDP growth is important but it can be misleading
Things can only get worse
There is a vast epistemic divide between those who experience decline, and those who don’t
Protectionism is highway robbery
Free trade is good in moral and practical terms
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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
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment