Economics
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
Trump’s tariffs didn’t unleash inflation
The protectionist president didn’t overheat the economy. He cooled it
In praise of private policing
We should be willing to pay more for less crime
Resident doctors are not paid too little
Resident doctors could use a little economic as well as medical knowledge
Britain’s missing millions
Labour must address Britain’s deep social dysfunction to address its economic dysfunction
How the Conservatives can attack Reform
Farage and friends’s economic policies are fiscally irresponsible
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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
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble