Rory McIlroy
The curse of the Next Big Thing label
Picking sport’s winners and losers when they are so young is a mug’s game
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
