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Nick Clegg was right to enter government
Avoiding difficult decisions is not morally superior
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues