Absolutely thrilled and honoured to take this post on at such an important time when we need smart, thoughtful comment more than ever

Bold idea here from @JohnPenroseNews – to fix the NHS by remodelling it as four parallel, competing providers! If @wesstreeting wants to show leadership, this is one way to do it 👇

The idea that higher taxes necessarily mean higher revenue is an economic fiction ✍️@jonmoyni https://t.co/EBi5nix8Ov

As we enter into yet another phase of harmful strikes by junior doctors, I’m reminded of the piece I wrote for @CapX almost a decade ago👇🏻 https://t.co/qMKKt4V6W8

Unemployment, up. Number of people considered NEET, up. Number of business leaders who lack confidence in the government, up. The warning signs are clear, but the Chancellor doesn't seem to be listening. Me in @CapX 👇 https://t.co/w8OYvUMvct

It isn't how the state delivers its services that costs so much, but what it promises to do in the first place ✍️@worstall https://t.co/WAXjUYyhoo

@CapX @marcsidwell @jamespriceglos Nobel laureate William Nordhaus found that entrepreneurs keep 2.2% of the value they create. If Elon earns a trillion dollars it means he created $44 trillion for the rest of us. Pretty good deal.

Anti-growth lefties are terrified of the prospect that Elon Musk might become a trillionaire ✍️@jamespriceglos https://t.co/Sx8HEO6YyF

Excellent piece: “The real divide in our economy isn’t between rich and poor, but between those working to get us out of economic malaise and the legacy incumbents happy to keep coasting on the rents of stagnation”

Many critics of the ‘dysfunctional British state’ seem to believe that if only different people – better civil servants, smarter politicians, perhaps they themselves – were in charge, the ship could be steered back on course. Perhaps this is less an argument than a reflex – the

When panic ensues about declining birth rates, politicians tend to reach for the chequebook: baby bonuses, childcare subsidies, tax credits and sometimes, direct cash handouts. These government-led interventions are incredibly expensive, and yet often have limited impact on

Government spending can’t buy more babies ✍️@ReemAmirIbrahim on how to fix the baby bust Read More: https://t.co/WLvcw0andn

Would Adam Smith trust ChatGPT?: We need to resist the new 'digital man of system' who wants to engineer society from above https://t.co/pEEMD2o0Nc via @CapX

Taxpayers are sick of footing the bill for their politicians' fiscal irresponsibility ✍️@JohnPenroseNews https://t.co/9g6hbGXA5R

Adam Smith argued that society cannot be engineered from above because people are agents animated by their own wants and needs. He thought that coordination doesn’t require central design, and that imposed design creates disorder by working against people’s natural inclinations.

Where’s Bastiat when you need him?

Where’s your flying car? Waiting for our civilisation to get its dynamism back

Reoffending costs £20 billion a year – the human toll is incalculable ✍️@NotThatBigIan on our dysfunctional probation service, and why Labour is about to make the problem even worse Read More: https://t.co/biwrFwKWk0

“Nothing works” has become a cliche, but the state of the probation service is a sight to behold. Just 28% of offenders have their risk properly assessed. Staff forced to work at 118% capacity. More than a thousand staff short… and we’re about to ask it to work even harder.

After two decades of ludicrous and ruinous organisational vandalism – part privatisation, reunification, staff cuts, retention crises and overwhelming risk – our probation service is understaffed, unsustainable and ill-prepared for a looming increase in caseload, as the

🪚 Which part of Milei's revolution do you most admire and why? As he wins big in the Argentinian election, hear what our Conservative Party Conference panellists said ⬇️