Money
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Britain’s economy is in no state to weather another crisis
Rachel Reeves must stop doubling down on bad economic ideas and try something new
What did Reeves have up her sleeve?
Mel Stride failed to knock the Chancellor off her stride
The economy that forgot how to learn
Capitalism has not been too cruel — we have tried to make it too kind
On operating profits and gross ignorance
Economic ignorance can have serious costs
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale