Economy
The government is regulating the economy to death
Businesses cannot prosper inside a regulatory straitjacket
Making a mess of a mess
Neither Rachel Reeves nor Kemi Badenoch can make any sense
Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules are smothering the state
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation — but how much is left in the UK?
Caught in the net
The government is wasting money as people waste their lives
Jason Hickel doesn’t understand economics
His work is a useful reminder not to stray too far from what we know
What is the point of economic growth?
GDP growth is important but it can be misleading
The British economy cannot sustain its contradictions
Like the late Soviet Union, it depends on ignorance and wishful thinking
Britain’s recurring nightmare
Starmer is caught in the same mud that has swallowed every government of the last decade
The EU is threatening British prosperity
Imposing its AI Act on Northern Ireland would be destructive and opportunistic
Going downhill
A bad week is only getting worse for Rachel Reeves
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold