Finance
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
How the Bank lost the plot
The Bank was warned that the growth in new money would cause prices to jump
Don’t chuck money at foreign companies
It is wrong to hand public money to overseas firms to expand their UK operations
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The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
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Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
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What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
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Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
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.
The malicious and the mad
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Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
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