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The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
A new lost decade
Echoes of the 1920s are growing louder and unless we act, we may repeat the complacency of the 1930s too
What is the point of economic growth?
GDP growth is important but it can be misleading
Why GDP is no longer FFP (fit for purpose)
As GDP sends increasingly wonky signals, we are setting ourselves up to fail
The British establishment is not driven by profit
The idea that it sees Britain as an “economic zone” is a palatable fantasy
Does anyone even understand productivity?
Economic measurements can be a lot more complicated than they seem
America’s alarming debt trap
The soaring US debt-to- GDP ratio could have major global consequences
Why growth matters
It underpins many of our other hopes and plans
Britain is better off outside the Single Market
Do not let the doomsters fool you
Most Read
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.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
What’s wrong with our newspapers
Important news is being drowned in the tawdry and the trivial
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital