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?
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
