Productivity
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
How to fix Britain’s energy crisis
High power costs are to blame for our productivity malaise
What is the point of economic growth?
GDP growth is important but it can be misleading
Do we really need population growth?
Population decline need not mean national decline
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Does anyone even understand productivity?
Economic measurements can be a lot more complicated than they seem
Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
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.
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions