Free Market
Don’t let the bookies’ cry for freedom fool you
Desperate to win Conservative hearts and minds, the gambling industry is pulling the cheapest trick in the book
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
Copping the lot
Why are death taxes staying when every other economic orthodoxy is going?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
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
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,