Gerontocracy
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments