trade deals
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
UK manufacturing is significantly outperforming as a result of Brexit
The doomsters are wrong about Brexit — again
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics