Singapore
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Why Singaporean healthcare works
It’s the incentives, stupid
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
