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Letters: The brilliant uselessness of art
Wonderfully useless Sir: Michael Simmons overlooks some scandalous examples of frivolous funding right under his nose (‘Waste land’, 15 February).…
Letters: The real value of independent schools
Strength of service Sir: Matthew Lynn and Steven Bailey (Letters, 1 February) are quite wrong to deplore the decline of…
Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for…
Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?
Just when it seemed that Donald Trump had finally committed political suicide — his notion of injecting disinfectant to cure…
Could a global recession be around the corner?
How can a new incumbent of No. 10 survive without a majority and with Brexit to solve? It defies the imagination.…
Portrait of the week: Resignations galore, Honda’s announcement and Islamic State’s brides
Home Seven MPs resigned from the Labour party and sat in the Commons (next to the DUP) as the Independent…
How is Britain going green? By shutting down industry
A fortnight ago, the energy minister, Andrea Leadsom, declared grandly that Britain, alone in the world, would commit to a…
Letters: Why politicians should leave doctors’ pay and hours alone
The NHS and politicians Sir: The NHS is indeed in need of fundamental reform, but Max Pemberton’s excellent article (‘The…
Why the boffin behind the Brompton is Britain’s greatest living designer
Asked to name Britain’s greatest living industrial designer, most people might cite Sir Jony Ive of Apple or Sir James…
Europe will reconcile with Russia, and soon. It can’t afford not to
The West will have to drop sanctions on Russia – or face another global economic crash
Clinton vs Bush — again
American politics looks increasingly like an oligarchy
The American economy vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
Martin Vander Weyer: Why I’d rather run M&S than Tesco
This first working week of January is apparently the time when we’re most likely to think about a change of…
Lord Bamford on why JCB is staying independent
‘If I can’t see a factory from up here,’ I mutter to myself, throwing the car round an uphill bend…
