March 4, 2020

Are humans heading for the knacker’s yard? In <i>A World Without Work</I>, Daniel Susskind hands us a collective P45. He can take it right back

Peter Franklin

26.02

Are economists really this stupid? Mervyn King's new book insists that we shouldn't use numbers when forecasting

Tom Chivers

26.02

Why Boris has his eye on a Union-boosting bridge Wouldn't the UK be better preserved by keeping Scotland and Northern Ireland apart?

Eilis O'Hanlon

04.02

Have we been played by China? We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy

James Kirkup

04.02

Which is worse, work or no work? There must be a way to navigate between the bad ideas of workism and anti-workism

Peter Franklin

03.02

Today’s liberals dream of a workerless paradise A new book argues that that both Left and Right are now engaged in class war — against the poor

James Bloodworth

31.01

Why I won’t be celebrating Brexit The past four years have been a depressing demonstration of how the Left lost its way

Paul Embery

28.01

How will Britain cope without empire? Our diminished nation needs a democratic refit as we leave imperial Europe

Jonathan Rutherford

21.01

What Sajid Javid should say at Davos, but won’t Dear Chancellor, we’ve written your speech for you — no need to thank us

Peter Franklin

07.01

The poisoning of liberal democracy Ferdinand Mount's <I> The New Few </i> presages a decade destabilised by inequality and incompetent oligarchies

Tanya Gold

30.12

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman The Conservative MP's 2011 <I> Case for Real Capitalism </I> was prescient — but ignored by his party

James Kirkup

26.12

The dangers of festive over-indulgence As Stephan Guyenet’s <I>The Hungry Brain</i> demonstrates, capitalism is cooking up food to reprogram our appetites

Tom Chivers