Milton Friedman
Too much of a good thing
Inflation is likely to be a live political issue until the growth of money is reined in
The Keynesian comeback
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed policymakers to revive discredited economic theories
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)