Tax
Is charging VAT on private schools a vote loser?
Whether a policy is wise and whether it is unpopular are different questions
How many people actually smoke?
Manchester memories and the black market in tobacco
Big pay rises won’t beat inflation
The poor are best helped through tax and benefits, not boosting the minimum wage
Why Truss was right
Economic reform was sorely needed
Big business versus small consumer
Producers only get a hearing at the expense of consumers
Against inheritance tax
Familial bonds and continuity should be encouraged
The abnormality of nannying
Why do we assume that lost freedoms are universal?
Osborne’s joyless crusade
Are times not hard enough already?
A taxing read
Industrial subsidies and the English language
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
Most Read
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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work