The bad science of cannabis oil
Was there ever a more fatuous contribution to a political debate than Lord Hague following up the case of 12-year-old…
The Scouts can’t offer equal access to the disabled – they won’t survive
A couple of years ago, Simon Barnes wrote a moving piece in this magazine about how his son Eddie, who…
Revealed – the truth about plastic
Has an albatross ever wielded so much influence? The bewildered chick who regurgitated a plastic bag in front of Sir…
Politicians want to move us towards a cashless world. It would be a disaster
What could be more terrifying than a return to the 15 per cent interest rates with which homebuyers had to…
His first 100 days
Many assume that if an election were held soon, Jeremy Corbyn would win. But what if, say, the government fell…
Crime and prejudice
Beware of jumping to conclusions about Brexit-induced violence
Hostile climate
The subtitle of Al Gore’s new film is ‘Truth to Power’, which is supposed to give the impression of brave…
Road to nowhere
When I heard the government’s announcement that petrol and diesel cars are to be banned from 2040, I resorted, as…
Generation wars
British general elections have often evolved from contests between parties into battles between two opposing themes or ideas. In 1964,…
A hard lesson is coming
Private schools have undermined their charitable status by dashing so shamelessly upmarket
Big boxes are the next growth story
Some time ago my eye was caught by the story of a boy who had taken his father’s credit card…
Out but not down
No group of the population voted to remain in the EU more enthusiastically than students. According to the polling organisation…
The Brexit bounce
Next time it comes to redesigning the PPE course at Oxford, I suggest a module beginning with a quotation from…
Let’s grow our own money
No 1960s vision of the 21st century was complete without an attentive robot-scuttling around doing household chores. At the time,…
Why British investors are wrong to panic about China
The western stock-market panic over China is excessive and irrational … so buy now
The Hinkley Point disaster
Britain’s new nuclear plant has hardly left the drawing board, but it’s already a case study in what not to do
The Volkswagen diesel scandal was driven by carbon obsession
A fixation on carbon emissions will produce many more scandals like the one that has shamed Volkswagen
Inside George Osborne’s empire: how the Chancellor rules Westminster
The Chancellor has Westminster in his grip
Why housing associations are the true villains of the property crisis
The trouble with housing associations
As oil prices plunge, I want to profit from the next spike. Here’s how
The ins and outs of betting on an oil price bounce
Blame Tony Blair for Labour’s new stupidity about wealth
Labour's attitude to wealth is sliding back into the 1970s - and Tony Blair's new career is one reason why
London’s real Olympic legacy: paying to build the stadium twice
Giving London’s Olympic stadium a ‘legacy’ is proving to be a very costly business
The rise of crowd culture – a generation scared to do anything alone
Individualism is dead: we have succumbed to the lure of the crowd
The equal pay bomb that could wipe out public sector jobs
Birmingham’s £1 billion equal-value pay claim could make public-sector employment a thing of the past
Power struggle
Bills are still going up in the long term – unless the government acts
