January 12, 2018

Is it possible to design a tax that targets the really wealthy? The biggest barriers to taxing wealth are practical

02.01

The increasing power of computer programs to determine how we live (and die) When algorithms go wrong, who is liable?

Graeme Archer

20.12

If you don’t ‘get’ statistics it’s just as bad as not ‘getting’ Shakespeare Why statistical thinking is as important as the ability to spell

Graeme Archer

12.12

Marriage is a uniquely stabilising force: are liberals finally getting the message? Marriage works, if not for every couple, then for society as a whole

Peter Franklin

10.11

The cosy relationship between big pharma and doctors is killing people

20.10

Sermons from Hollywood A-listers will never deserve an audience again Nobody in search of a truly rotten culture needs look much further than Hollywood

Douglas Murray

13.10

We can no longer afford to ignore the crisis facing men In redefining a woman's role in society, we have forgotten to redefine what it means to be a man

05.10

Was it whiteness that won it for Trump? In a widely-circulated essay for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates describes Donald Trump as America’s “first white President”

Peter Franklin

29.09

Poor mental health is bad for the economy The greatest threat to capitalism is failures in public policy

15.09

The Left is (also) right about the minimum wage and investing in infrastructure

12.09

How the Left conquered social media While the Conservatives cling to ever-more-obscure corners of the mainstream media, Labour and its digital native activists are winning the Internet

Helen Lewis

01.09

The even more deadly hurricane surging across America More Americans are dying because of addiction than because of cars. Or guns.

Ian Birrell