Theme: Capitalism

The low-paid get a lot of words from politicians. Here’s a plan to give them higher incomes.

BY David Laws / 6 mins

How the big tech companies are eating free markets

BY Charlotte Pickles / 7 mins

Easy money: How have the central bankers got away with it?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The human staplers of Silicon Valley

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How cheap labour undermines economic productivity

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Rampant Germanophilia merits closer examination

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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

BY Charlotte Pickles / 9 mins

From Jeremy Corbyn to Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren; what the Left is getting right

BY Liam Halligan / 6 mins

Silicon Valley goes hypersocialist (as long as they don’t have to pay for it)

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The day, nearly 25 years ago, when all of Britain was ‘screwed by the Cabinet’

BY Liam Halligan / 4 mins

We know Trump hates NAFTA but what’s free trade meant for Mexico?

BY Charlotte Pickles / 9 mins

Is President Xi a moralist like Gertrude Himmelfarb?

BY Michael Burleigh / 9 mins