Government spending
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
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
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity