Innovation
The EU red tape export racket
Brussels is drowning South Africa in bureaucracy
The Tories have a nostalgia problem
Modern leaders must focus on modern problems
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The time is ripe for innovation
Natascha Engel reviews How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning