Economics
Ed Miliband does not understand economics
Why employment figures aren’t the right metric for energy policy
Trump cannot pick a fight with everyone
A scattershot trade war risks US predominance
Blue Labour offers bad answers to the wrong questions
Its combination of stale economics and sinister moralism should be rejected
Raiding the bookmakers
A money-hungry government is coming for online gambling
Levy the remittances!
The British economy is bleeding as hundreds of millions of pounds are sent overseas
Don’t cry for Argentina
A reforming president and a vast new oilfield promise a bright future for Buenos Aires
The misunderstood satirist of sin
In the minds of many, this book threatened to undermine and destabilise the moral order
Equality law is bankrupting Britain
Birmingham is the tip of an iceberg of trash
Don’t make ethnic pay gap reporting mandatory
Mandatory pay gap reporting will make discrimination more common, not less
Gary Stevenson is wrong about the real world
His arguments for taxing wealth have no empirical foundation
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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
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false