Wonderful news! We’re not going to run out of oil after all! (Or are we?)

We are saved!  "Leonardo Maugeri, a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for… Read more »

Elinor Ostrom – everything an economist should be

When Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2009, not everyone was happy; according to her obituary in… Read more »

Caroline Spelman, Rain Goddess

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Caroline Spelman failed to sell off or lease large parts of England's forests –… Read more »

The Tory grassroots see education and welfare reforms as the political successes of the Cameron years

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In last week's edition of the New Statesman I took a brief look at… Read more »

Conservative leadership opens door to third runway at Heathrow

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. A story in the Financial Times (£) this morning contains the news that the… Read more »

Reacting to fuel duty decision, 78% of Tory members want more tax cuts funded by faster spending cuts

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter 24 hours ago George Osborne announced that the planned 3p increase in fuel duty would… Read more »

OPEC (Oil Prices Explain Crisis)

On the Deep End we don’t exactly overlook the contribution of the Eurozone to the great economic crisis of our… Read more »

Osborne’s fuel duty news and his Treasury golden rule: never, ever allow oneself to be outsmarted by Ed Balls.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter George Osborne's decision to halt August's planned fuel duty rise and freeze it for… Read more »

A witness on the kill floor

The industrial slaughter of animals for food is not something that we like to think about – and thanks to… Read more »

A firm prediction… HS2 will never happen

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter That's my firm prediction and I think Lord Adonis, the Labour Transport Secretary who pioneered… Read more »

Tory movement against wind farms and HS2 is gathering momentum

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter The environment is becoming a new source of potential tension within the Coalition and within… Read more »

Lincolnshire Conservatives introduce presumption against wind turbines

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Conservative-controlled Lincolnshire County Council is about to issue planning guidance that will be greetred with… Read more »

Osborne can still prosper but he must choose between being Chancellor and general busybody

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter There's not much joy for George Osborne in today's YouGov poll for The Sunday Times… Read more »

The Committee on Climate Change should be abolished

The Committee on Climate Change has its offices in Holbein Place just off Sloane Square and has a budget of… Read more »

Canada stands up for sensible environmental policies and rejects unilateral economic disarmament

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Several Anglosphere counties are in the process of implementing climate change policies that mean… Read more »