Finance
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
“Reputational risk” is rot
Business is obsessed by this pseudoscientific nonsense
The same old soap opera
The Bank of England will continue to ignore the real lessons of boom and bust
Downfall of the Brexit doomers
New ONS figures are good news for Britain
Big pay rises won’t beat inflation
The poor are best helped through tax and benefits, not boosting the minimum wage
Stocking the trophy cabinet
Britain’s rich store of status symbols is a key driver of foreign investment
How to stop banks’ new social credit system
We need new legislation to force banks to respect free speech
Don’t chuck money at foreign companies
It is wrong to hand public money to overseas firms to expand their UK operations
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
The arts are under threat in Scotland
New legislation endangers freedom, but the arts have been enabling its suppression for some time
