rare earths
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
