NIC tax increase
Pricing out the young
Britain’s labour market is faltering, and subsidies cannot mask the policies pricing young workers out.
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
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What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture