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March 21, 2011 If I knew only of two young applicants for a job that one was British and that the other was Polish, I would employ the Pole - says Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple
February 04, 2011 The British intelligentsia is unable or unwilling to distinguish between cultural elitism and social exclusivity - Theodore Dalrymple argues this explains the unutterable mediocrity of contemporary Britain Theodore Dalrymple
July 07, 2010 The Price of Wine - David Womersley bemoans the fact that first-growth clarets have become so expensive that they are no longer affordable to the merely well-off David Womersley
March 24, 2010 Impoverishment will be our well-merited collective fate - argues Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple
February 04, 2009 Theodore Dalrymple asks, are we all Keynesians now? Or might Keynesianism mean quite different things in Britain and Germany Theodore Dalrymple
October 13, 2008 Capitalism in the credit crunch and the market meltdown: still lovely Richard D. North
September 18, 2008 The Triumph of the Very Rich? William D. Rubinstein on why the TUC are wrong about the very wealthy William D. Rubinstein
March 31, 2008 On the Lower Class: Lincoln Allison explores the gulf between the Working Class and the Lower Class Lincoln Allison
September 03, 2007 The Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid: Theodore Dalrymple explains how Western policies have poisoned the water supplies of 70 million in Bangladesh Theodore Dalrymple
July 23, 2007 The Rowntree Foundation is wrong about poverty in Britain, argues William D. Rubinstein William D. Rubinstein
February 28, 2007 "Tax is solidarity" - Theodore Dalrymple diagnoses France's malaise: Their intellectuals' belief that tax is solidarity and justice is fairness - but the national sport is tax evasion Theodore Dalrymple
May 24, 2006 Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism: The British Journal of Psychiatry is wrong to blame neoliberalism for the over-prescription of antidepressants, argues Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple
November 30, 2005 Does money make us happy? Generally no, but that does not mean that generating wealth is a mistake - Life, Liberty and the Right to Pursue Unhappiness William Coleman
September 27, 2005 49 Up - it is only the programme's makers who remain hung-up about class today Harry Phibbs
September 13, 2005 So what is the moral case for low taxation? Harry Phibbs
September 01, 2005 When public health aims clash: how health education tends to widen health inequalities Anthony Daniels
August 03, 2005 Gitterdammerung (The Twilight of the Gits) - Or the coming cataclysmic property crash - and its even more cataclysmic consequences S. J. Masty
July 28, 2005 Why equality of opportunity is impossible to achieve - but intellectual elitism can offer opportunity to all Theodore Dalrymple
July 20, 2005 In Defence of Richard Phillips, "the ketchup man" Harry Phibbs
July 06, 2005 Pro-Bono Economics: The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs Richard D. North
April 08, 2005 Rich is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence of Mass Affluence - Richard D. North Michael Mosbacher
December 09, 2004 Horatio Alger must not die: The Bicentenary of Michael Faraday's Apprenticeship and the Idea of an Exemplary Life Seamus Sweeney
November 15, 2004 "Get your filthy hands off my future": Bloated Plutocrats and Friends of the Earth Anthony Daniels
November 12, 2004 A Modest Proposal: Abolish the Income Tax William D. Rubinstein
October 04, 2004 Jonathan Sacks on Wealth & Poverty Michael Mosbacher
September 28, 2004 Money Talks? Once It Whispered, Now It Shouts William D. Rubinstein
August 23, 2004 The Costs of Prosperity: Over the last 25 years Britain has gained in wealth, but become less rich in terms of culture - argues Lincoln Allison Lincoln Allison
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