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If nothing else, economists are good at naming things. Malthusianism, Abenomics or, my personal favourite, Baumol's cost disease. But for policymakers, the most important theory is perhaps the Laffer curve, named after the American economist Arthur Laffer, who argued there is a theoretical tax rate at which maximum revenue is…

Plus, why scientists are sounding the alarm about Starlink

Then she needs to prove it in the Budget — here’s how I’d do it, says former Chancellor George Osborne

In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…

Heroin chic never truly left — but now it’s back with a vengeance I haven’t seen in years. Why now? It feels like an insult to the past decade of progress on size inclusivity in the fashion industry. There’s also the influence of powerful new drugs, but more on that…

Trump and his supporters are happy to deploy vile sexual slurs. It’s a timeworn tactic – and the fight against it must not cease, says biographer Sonia Purnell

With SpaceX, Starlink and X, Musk has more foreign policy sway than probably any unelected person in US history

It’s that time of year when homes fill with hairy eight-legged monsters. At least they keep the flies under control …

A lovable goofball who is happy to cheerlead for his wife, the vice-president of the US? Thank God for Doug Emhoff, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes