Robots won’t take over the world – just our jobs
Whatever happened to the future? Back in the 1950s they said we’d be taking our holidays on the moon by… Read more »
Edited by Peter Franklin
Cameron and Osborne: Standing on the shoulders of pygmies
As leader of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the performance of David Cameron and George Osborne –… Read more »
Don’t make the rich pay – stop paying the rich
In an article for the Vox website, Stefan Bach and Gert Wagner believe that European governments should levy a one-off… Read more »
Unhappy anniversary: the first five years of the permanent recession
Earlier this month, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of the Daily Telegraph, marked a sombre anniversary – the first five… Read more »
Nevermind plan B, here’s plan H – a helicopter drop of made-up money
Last week, the Deep End featured Anatole Kaletsky’s argument that money created through Quantitative Easing (QE) should be given directly… Read more »
The brave, brilliant and infuriating Peter Hitchens
One of the many low-lights of the London 2012 closing ceremony was Russell Brand’s performance of I Am The Walrus… Read more »
Modern culture: Ugliness is compulsory
London 2012 was a triumph. The best Olympics ever. Apart from the closing ceremony, of course. Oh, and one other… Read more »
Stella Creasy: Labour’s most interesting Member of Parliament
When it’s well-deserved, there’s nothing wrong in expressing admiration for a political opponent. From a Conservative perspective on the Labour… Read more »
The mis-selling of higher education
An excellent and timely post from Fraser Nelson on the Spectator’s Coffee House blog. His subject is the pressure on… Read more »
All aboard the libertarian Titanic!
When people complain about the rich getting richer, they’re usually thinking about the interests of those who aren’t rich. But… Read more »
If the Government is just going to print money, why can’t we have some?
In his column for Reuters, Anatole Kaletsky ventures into the wacky world of quantitative easing or QE. Faced with a… Read more »
Drugged-up grannies unleash pharmageddon
In every era of human history older people have looked upon the antics of younger people and concluded that the… Read more »
Cameronism: The ghost of an idea
Tom Greeves is a speechwriter and actor, and also that rare beast, a rightwing stand-up comedian. Last year, with his… Read more »
Why are London’s schools beating the rest of the country?
If education were an Olympic sport, then the gold medal would go to London. That’s the conclusion of an important… Read more »
Whatever happened to Microsoft? And does it remind you of another once successful enterprise?
The astonishing pace of change in the digital age was the subject of yesterday’s Deep End. Today, we focus on… Read more »
