Parliament Sitting
Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
