Public Spending
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
No taxation on expatriation
With no navy and minimal evacuation efforts, the UK’s demand that citizens abroad pay up is ludicrous
With friends like these …
Opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives
Too much of a good thing?
The administrative class in UK higher education is bloated, overpaid and arrogant
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
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
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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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards