Market Speculation
Markets are not neutral
It is politically advantageous to pretend they are — but it is untrue
Confessions of a lockdown speculator
Is it immoral to make money out of a disease that is killing millions?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The wonders of Whistler
A new exhibition offers calm stillness — mostly
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe