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Wanted: a warrior against decline
Plus: how nukes stopped WWIII, and the hidden taxes on your new home
2 hrs ago
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The social value bait and switch
Plus: Alex Tabarrok on equal value pay, and Starmer's defence blunder
Aug 5
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Alex Tabarrok: Britain's equal pay madness
Why are employment tribunals comparing apples with oranges?
Aug 5
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How not to fix prisons
Plus: Ceuta shows the flaw at the EU's heart, and what the AI doomers get wrong
Aug 4
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Despatch: Ben Houchen – we need real devolution
A mayor who can only spend money the Treasury's way isn't a mayor to begin with
Aug 4
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Labour play the blame game
Plus: how New Zealand solved its pay litigation crisis, and Britain has a spending problem
Aug 3
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Weekly Briefing: Power to the people?
Plus: is the grid on the brink of collapse, who'd want to be a British millionaire and does anyone own the Moon?
Aug 2
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July 2026
Houchen: I don't want Andy's pocket money
Plus: why are we banning energy drinks, and could AI make Whitehall worse?
Jul 31
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Burnham gets pragmatic on North Sea oil
Plus: social care needs profit, and where are Britain's millionaires going?
Jul 30
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Does Burnham have a problem with profit?
Plus: capitalism in outer space, and Net Zero's threat to the grid
Jul 29
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Who owns the Moon?
Rainer Zitelmann on how SpaceX rewrote the economics of launch, the case against cost-plus and why profits and private property are the key to Mars
Jul 29
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Shots fired
Plus: rail nationalisation heads off track, and who pays for a second staircase?
Jul 28
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