Gold Standard
Fifty years of easy money
Having gold as an anchor may not be perfect, but it does prevent the enormous expansion of public debt
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
