capitalism
How hard should we fight Black Friday?
Should we make peace with this imported festival of consumerism?
Socialist Cluedo
What a load of manipulative, hysterical tosh is An Inspector Calls. It wasn’t a work with which I was familiar…
Capitalism’s true enemies
The far left can’t win – unless it has the aid of a callous and complacent right
Free markets and dumb luck
The greatest mistake made by conservatism was its overly close relationship with neo-classical economics. This was a marriage of convenience:…
Despair springs eternal
The left is always eager to be told that capitalism’s final crisis is upon us – and it is always disappointed
How Taylor Swift socked it to Apple over a weekend
All hail Taylor Swift. How she must give baby boomers the fear. Not just baby boomers. Also those who came…
Diary
To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I…
Pop icon
The Coca-Cola ‘contour’ bottle is 100 years old. Stephen Bayley salutes a design classic
Only capitalism can save Nigeria
Is West Africa's powerhouse headed for a boom - or a coup?
Curatorial wrongs
The world exists and then it disappears, piece by piece, the gaps widening until one age is replaced by another,…
The mystery of festivals
I wouldn’t describe myself as a veteran of the summer festival circuit, but I’ve been to enough to have a…
Captivated by Karl
If a title works once, the chances are it will work again. Half the punch of Marx’s masterwork is in…
Don Quixote of Kaszubia
In 1993, John Borrell, a longtime foreign correspondent with no permanent home, decided to abandon journalism. Tired of writing about…
Here’s what’s wrong with the ‘public sector ethos’
Matthew Parris 14 November 2015 9:00 am
An infuriating benefit of readers’ online comments beneath the efforts of a columnist like me is that as you read…