Mining
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The Ukrainian minerals myth
Has Donald Trump been misled about the value of Ukrainian rare earth deposits?
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?