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It’s time to spike the hypocrisy about homelessness

Instead of attacking people for protecting their own property, it would be good to hear more from Boris on his ideas for tackling homelessness

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 23 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 10 comments

Heresy of the week: To keep the lights on, stop building so many power stations

Like most essential commodities, if we can’t produce enough electricity of our own at a reasonable price, then we should import it instead

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 20 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 21 comments

There’s good news on bovine TB – but the farm lobby won’t like it

If badgers are still sauntering around the countryside as if they owned the place, then how come we’re making progress against bovine TB?

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 19 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 44 comments

Britain’s record on road safety should be a source of national pride

The terrible truth is that, to a large extent, each country chooses how many people will die on its roads

Highlights, The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 18 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 18 comments

Now would be an excellent time for a post-mortem on the 2015 Conservative election campaign

Imagine if a pre-mortem had been performed on the plans for the 2010 campaign.

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 17 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 27 comments

Islamism is far from being the biggest extremist threat to our schools

Leftwing extremists have waged a relentless campaign to spread their insane ideas throughout the state education system

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 16 June 2014 at 6:00 am | 31 comments

Heresy of the week: Europhiles should welcome the AfD’s membership of the ECR

The only reason why David Cameron directed Tory MEPs to vote against the AfD is because Angela Merkel told him to

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 13 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 8 comments

George Monbiot says defend British soil and crackdown on subsidy junkies: how’s that for a Conservative agenda?

One can make a case for paying farmers to look after the countryside – but paying them to destroy it is indefensible

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 12 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 12 comments

The hidden graves at the heart of London’s insane property market

The archeologists of the future will discover a strange city where the rich lived underground while those of more limited means squeezed themselves into tiny apartments

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 11 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 6 comments

Clever, complicated and fundamentally wrong: economics is the alchemy of our times

Armed with theories and formulae that aren’t accessible to outsiders, the economics profession has gained a privileged position in the policy making process

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 10 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 44 comments

UKIP has transformed the electoral map – so let’s reach out to Lib Dem voters

We be witnessing the birth of an intriguing new phenomenon – tactical voting by left-ish voters for the Conservative Party

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 9 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 106 comments

Heresy of the week: It’s the irreligious right that secular liberals should worry about

Could it be that our increasingly secular society, while more tolerant, is less compassionate?

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 6 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 9 comments

It’s grim down south – or why ministers would rather not find shale gas under Sussex

It looks like Sussex won’t be the new Saudi Arabia after all.

Highlights, The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 5 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 9 comments

Prime Minister Ken Clarke and other absurd fantasies

Would a Conservative Party led by him have beaten UKIP?

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 4 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 8 comments

Government and the unions must get behind the self-employment revolution

Our high level of self-employment is sometimes blamed for Britain’s comparatively low-level of labour productivity, but this ignores the hidden efficiencies

The Deep End | By Peter Franklin | 3 June 2014 at 5:45 am | 17 comments

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