Finance
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
You can’t save money without making it
We cannot be too risk averse in finance
Is Mark Carney a Straussian?
The rules-based order might have been based on fiction but fiction is essential in politics
Our economic problems are bigger than we think
The failings of Rachel Reeves are only a small aspect of our economic dysfunction
The rip-off behind the ritual
Old City’s “Buy British” campaign will deliver higher fees and sub-par returns
Why bankers are living saints
Fiction and drama are filled with unhappy financiers, but the real world is very different
The City regulator’s mission creep
Why is the FCA trying to regulate “non-financial misconduct”?
How to ruin a university
There is a managerial cancer afflicting the higher education sector
Don’t cry for Argentina
A reforming president and a vast new oilfield promise a bright future for Buenos Aires
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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
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Signs of life
Wales finally offered proof they aren’t destined to decline
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate