Economics
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
Donald Trump doesn’t understand trade
His protectionism will make people poorer and prices higher
The immorality of globalisation
Free trade cannot halt our national decline
Mass migration will not solve the pensions crisis
It just kicks the demographic can down the road
The British economy cannot sustain its contradictions
Like the late Soviet Union, it depends on ignorance and wishful thinking
Britain is stuck in a welfare loop
The incentive structure in a democratic welfare state makes economic realism impossible
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
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The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Kemi Badenoch was right about the chaos in Clapham
Rioting as entertainment is a First World phenomenon
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks