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Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
