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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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Gas shock therapy
Ed Miliband must abandon his absurd and failing approach to energy
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants