Public Spending
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Building a culture for kids
Financial support is not enough to raise fertility rates
Snub the SNIB
Does the Scottish National Investment Bank pass the smell test?
Brexit will be good for the world
British aid spending can now be more efficient
Arts Cancel England
Public bodies are dangerously biased
Hive collapse
The new elites have ruined everything. Now they’re destroying themselves
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
