Markets
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
Reclaiming private education for the masses
Advocates for freedom in school choice should not rely on sob stories, but on a principled defence of markets and the profit motive
End the fiction of fiscal rules
We need more honesty in Westminster policy making
Jason Hickel doesn’t understand economics
His work is a useful reminder not to stray too far from what we know
The coming apart of the deal
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be optimistic about Trump are convincing no one
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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
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer