Rachel Reeves
Labour: a party of nostalgics
It’s difficult to imagine Keir Starmer’s government ever recovering from this disastrous year
Punch drunk
How many more beatings can Rachel Reeves take?
The Budget was nakedly ideological
Does this dying government want to take the country with it?
Gallows humour
The Budget was a terribly depressing farce
Should we tax the poor more?
This is the unavoidable conclusion of Modern Monetary Theory
How the budget could backfire
Delivering a successful budget might have become politically impossible
The social contract is broken
The Budget also needs to remember those who pay for it
The new “enemy within”
Britain needs clear thinking and cheap energy
The government is regulating the economy to death
Businesses cannot prosper inside a regulatory straitjacket
Making a mess of a mess
Neither Rachel Reeves nor Kemi Badenoch can make any sense
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)