Monetary Policy
Is Liz Truss Thatcherite?
She wants to change our circumstances rather than manage them
Fifty years of easy money
Having gold as an anchor may not be perfect, but it does prevent the enormous expansion of public debt
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
Infected blood and infected institutions
Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Defend Christian private schools
Keir Starmer’s tax raid would be bad for children, parents and the state