Are we ready for the fourth industrial revolution?
How smart factories could create jobs and end wage stagnation.
The federal European state that actually works
The cantons of Switzerland, like the nations of the Eurozone, are each entitled to make their own decisions on spending, taxation and borrowing.
Steve Hilton stands up for the family
Despite his passion for the possibilities opened up by new technology, his biggest idea is an old one: the traditional family.
Has Britain really resigned as a world power?
The advocates of more bombing share the logic as the advocates of more borrowing.
Heresy of the week: Unfortunately, David Brooks is wrong – there is no centre-right ‘moment’
It’s more a case of the centre-left doing badly than the centre-right doing well.
The libertarian case for action on climate change
Never mind the tree-hugging, this is an issue of property rights and risk management.
Satire isn’t dead – it’s just sick with self-satisfaction
More than half a century on from ‘The Establishment’, the real irony is that the most prominent satirists are now pillars of the actual establishment.
The narrowness of the economic policy debate is blinding us to the bigger picture
The notion that our economy can be fundamentally fixed or broken by a simple policy lever pulled in Downing Street is one with obvious appeal to the statist left.
A possible solution to the great opinion poll mystery
I start from the assumption that the public are getting wise to the fact that they can use the polling process for their own purposes.
Five things that matter more than the election result – Day 5: The next election result
2020 will be Labour’s last chance to turn the clock back.
Five things that matter more than the election result – Day 4: The solar revolution
What if solar panel owners could store their electricity for later use?
Five things that matter more than the election result – Day 3: Putin at bay
Over the last few years, Putin has proved to be a frightening and baffling adversary – but he can be outmanoeuvred.
Five things that matter more than the election result – Day 2: Definancialisation
Is it a coincidence that as one of the most heavily financialised economies we also have a particular problem with low productivity?
Five things that matter more than the election result – Day 1: The Chinese leadership
Instead of moving towards the openness and accountability of a democratic system, Xi’s approach has been to accumulate personal power.
Labour. The Left lost – but so did the Blairites
It’s Blue Labour that’s entitled to say: “I told you so.”