jobs
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
The Employment Rights Act is wrong for employment
It is terribly expensive and miserably burdensome
Andy Burnham doesn’t understand economics
His plan to “re-industrialise” illustrates devastating economic illiteracy
Young people deserve the chance to work
Teenagers are being squeezed unfairly and irrationally out of the workplace
Zach and Zara’s jobs are no more
Struggling Gen Z graduates can get ahead, but they will have to change with changing times
Caught in the net
The government is wasting money as people waste their lives
The case for lowering the minimum wage
It is a major and predictable cause of youth unemployment
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting