Tax
Gallows humour
The Budget was a terribly depressing farce
Should we tax the poor more?
This is the unavoidable conclusion of Modern Monetary Theory
How the budget could backfire
Delivering a successful budget might have become politically impossible
Moralism posing as economics
From gambling to billionaires, moral crusades are being dressed up as pragmatism
The Right must stop playing the victim
Voters back a strong horse, not a plaintive loser
Reform has to be serious about spending
The British people deserve, and need, honesty on economics
Tax incentives won’t solve the declining birth rate
The demographic crisis can’t be solved by cheap tricks
Exposing the anti-gambling agenda
Don’t bet on hearing good arguments
Britain has to ditch distributional analysis
Growth is being suffocated by egalitarian neuroses
Abolishing Stamp Duty is no silver bullet
The Conservatives have to escape their economic comfort zone
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to