Tax
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
We demand supply
There is no alternative to building houses
Illiteracy of the tax-cut lobby
Slashing taxes cannot make a nation better off. Instead we must increase production
Why we need a Rashford tax
Virtue-signalling companies should put their money where their mouths are
Online banking’s ‘great service’
Dealing with your bank online makes the Labyrinth seem like a Roman Road
Two Britains
Former Labour MP Natascha Engel says the country divides on our relationship with HMRC
Copping the lot
Why are death taxes staying when every other economic orthodoxy is going?
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
