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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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)