Friedrich Von Hayek
Why Keynes was wrong
He misinterpreted fundamental economic principles
Margaret Thatcher: Tragic visionary
The Iron Lady had many qualities, but she sowed the seeds of a society she would have hated
Unpacking an economic titan
Hayek was not, and always insisted that he was not, a laissez-faire economist
How Covid paved the Road to Serfdom
Hayek suggested a society which sacrificed liberty for security would gradually submit itself to authoritarian control
A moral case for Universal Basic Income
A neoliberal argument for UBI based on individual freedom and property rights
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
The prophet who didn’t do people
Friedrich von Hayek became “Hayek”, a cardboard cut-out representation.
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country