tax cuts
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the tax cuts
The system needed shaking up
We need the rich more than they need us
Their taxes support our way of life
U-turn off a cliff
The only way forward was through
It’s Trussonomics – and you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Introducing Kwasi Kwarteng, master of counter-intuitive thinking
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
