Short Supply
Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Petrol panic 2021
The petrol shortage could have been avoided if petrol stations had raised their prices
The battle for PPE – never was so much owed by so many to so few
Can Lord Deighton do for PPE what Lord Beaverbrook did for Spitfires?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
