VAT
The private school exodus dwarfs Treasury predictions
Children and schools are suffering as a result of the imposition of VAT on private school fees
Of course VAT is a barrier to trade
Trump’s tariffs are misguided, yes, but we should be more honest about our economics
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties