Honey, let’s shrink the economy

With the election of a socialist to the position of mayor, New Yorkers are trying to escape one toxic fantasy by plunging headfirst into another. They jump from the caldarium – a muscled-up fantasy of

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“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

Earlier this month the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to three academics noted for exploring the two most urgent practical questions in their discipline: why do economies grow, and how can we h

TYLER NORRIS SPEAKS JUST AS YOU might expect a renewable-power developer turned academic would talk. Phrases like maximum nameplate capacity and new load integration glide off the tongue. He delves in

→ Draw the curtains, bolt the door, turn off the lights. A big, green monster is lurking around the corner – at least, according to Nigel Farage. “Net zero is deindustrialising Britain,” the Reform UK