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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
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Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
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How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Not so good after all
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Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
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The games we play
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When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall