The economic cost of loneliness
It’s lonely at the top. Well, actually it isn’t. A successful politician is hardly ever alone. Perhaps that’s why loneliness… Read more »
Edited by Peter Franklin
Youth unemployment or unemployable youth?
This week, employment minister Chris Grayling urged employers to ‘hire a hoodie’ – a reference to British-born young people often… Read more »
The scandal of population control
Uzbekistan is a dangerous country in which to uncover evidence of government wrongdoing; but reporting for the BBC World Service,… Read more »
Let the Eurozone bail itself out
Now for another enormous international scandal – the proposed IMF bailout of the Eurozone. Admittedly, this one involves nothing more… Read more »
The Swedish small print: Why tax cuts aren’t a shortcut to British recovery
Sweden enjoys the benefit of having its own currency. It also enjoys the benefit of Anders Borg, named by the… Read more »
Why liberals don’t understand conservatives
It is, for many conservatives, a familiar feeling – the sense that our counterparts on the liberal left not only… Read more »
The nation as a family
As well as introducing us to Jonathan Haidt’s work, David Goodhart’s review is an important article in its own right, exposing… Read more »
The city as a home
Though mostly occupied with his fellow liberals, David Goodhart also lays down a challenge to conservatives: “…the right remains attached… Read more »
The new German problem
Christopher Caldwell knows how to grab our attention: “Once again, Europe has a country at its centre that is too… Read more »
The long and winding road to recovery
Christopher Caldwell’s article contains an interesting aside about George Osborne and his German opposite number: “An aide who was present… Read more »
Are the old robbing the young?
Older people are richer than younger people. This is not big news – the former have had longer than the… Read more »
The closing of the American mind
Allan Bloom was not a natural conservative: “In electoral politics he was a moderately liberal Democrat, and more liberal still… Read more »
Adam Posen: Why is America growing faster than Britain?
Since the great recession, America’s economic recovery has been significantly stronger than our own. The British left hypocritically overlooks the… Read more »
David Cameron’s ‘Nudge Unit’
Of course, the Government can hardly lecture the banks on efficiency, if it does nothing to improve its own. When… Read more »
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Babylon and the bankers
The ancient Babylonians knew a thing or two about nudging. Or, at any rate, Hammurabi’s code – the first legal… Read more »
