Rachel Reeves
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
Labour’s economic plans are a disaster waiting to happen
They won’t save the planet and they won’t save the economy
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
