Rent
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
No longer a nation of shopkeepers
Local authorities support rack-renting landlords instead of small traders
No place like home
The crisis facing London renters
An inspector calls
An Englishman’s illegally small room should be his castle
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes