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Hungry? Let them eat spuds!

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ACCORDING to the Independent, 500,000 children in Britain go to school on an empty stomach. A quick Google search for ‘People going to bed hungry...
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Where the minimum wage is now the maximum

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I run a business and that needs a number of part-time cleaners. Rather like Theodore Dalrymple during his years as a prison doctor, I...
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Is the new face of Nike a smart move to foil Trump’s tariffs?

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Companies, especially manufacturing ones, like cheap labour, and Nike is no exception. The US sports goods giant makes 46 per cent of its products...
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If banks did this to students, it would be called mis-selling

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Student loans carry an interest rate of RPI plus 3 per cent. I recently asked two elite students what they thought RPI was. One...
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Simple ways to stem the health service cash haemorrhage

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When Laura Perrins asked how Generation Rent would pay for the NHS, she was thinking the same as I and many others have been...
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Time to put our housing in order

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As Laura Perrins wrote on TCW last week, the topic that is really vexing the young Corbynistas is house prices. I wonder if Hammond and...
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Driven crazy by the D-word

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Visiting America, I liked the picture with this article about the wonderfully named Hamtramck, part of Detroit. It shows all the ironies of the...
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An evening with Jordan Peterson in Motor City

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Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life and protagonist in that infamous Cathy Newman Channel 4 interview, is doing a worldwide speaking tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54 The only...
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A lone voice behind enemy lines

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This week I went to a sixth-form college in a small Norfolk town for a ‘Question Time’ event. I didn’t sleep very well the night...
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Memo to the FT – Remaining, not leaving, is what would wreck us

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On Tuesday the Financial Times Europe Editor Tony Barber wrote a piece entitled ‘The EU is no protectionist racket.’ How the FT has fallen. But...
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Thanks to insane public borrowing, interest rates are about to explode

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Let’s take a few numbers: Bank of England base rate: 0.5 per cent Annual interest on the national debt: £49billion Armed Forces spending: £35billion Although interest rates are...
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The answer to drug crime is punishment

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When you enter Singapore and fill in your immigration form, it says in big bold red letters: WARNING DEATH TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS UNDER SINGAPORE...
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It’s an unequal world – get over it

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The Financial Times ran an article entitled ‘Bitcoin: why is it so male-dominated?’ The Express went further and implied there was some sort of...
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