Gen X
The Gen X delusion
They like to play the cynic, but Gen X built the modern world and got rich doing it
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?