National Insurance
The great wage squeeze
Why is everyone in Britain paid the same amount?
The rusty bucket
Six tests for the social care plan
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Reform’s gate fever
As they have grown more successful, Nigel Farage and his men have lost sight of what it takes to succeed
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
An idiot’s guide to promoting “public health” policies
How to make irrational authoritarian moralism sound like urgent common sense
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Missionaries, not management consultants
As trust in the Church of England collapses, its leaders are prescribing more of the very managerialism that created the problem
Running out of autobahn
Beijing’s manufacturing strategy is colliding with Europe’s self-inflicted industrial weaknesses
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward