Heresy of the week: The rich keep getting richer because the state keeps giving them money
In the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008, the rich got a whole lot richer. But they must have… Read more »
Edited by Peter Franklin
Tattoos, racism and modernist architecture
The very term ‘modernist architecture’ evokes a sense of inevitability – as if architectural modernism is a simple fact of… Read more »
Texas shows that fiscal conservatism is a (lone star) state of mind
Back in February, the Deep End featured a post entitled Sweden: Beacon of the right. Today, we look to a… Read more »
The Marxist revival that never happened
Isn’t about time that major awards – like the Oscars and the Emmys – were opened up to a public… Read more »
If UKIP isn’t libertarian – and it really isn’t – then what does it stand for?
On what principle should one name a political party? In the good old days, the main parties were named after… Read more »
Heresy of the week: The Eurozone does not have a single currency
Prepare to have your gast flabbered, because Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times has a flabbergasting fact for you: “A… Read more »
Let’s hope the Chinese discover shale gas and plenty of it
Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future – and always will be. Or so the old joke goes…. Read more »
No, the case for austerity is not based on a spreadsheet error
When the media reports on a complicated issue, the truth can be horribly distorted – not so much through outright… Read more »
Has political correctness gone mad or is madness politically correct?
In 1961 a young psychiatrist by the name of Thomas Szasz published a book called The Myth of Mental Illness… Read more »
Britain needs to build its way to recovery
0.3 per cent GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was better than many people expected. But it… Read more »
Heresy of the week: For social liberals, there’s now no reason not to legalise polygamous marriage
Will legalising same sex marriage lead to the legalisation of polygamous marriage? Claims that it might are typically met with… Read more »
The staggering hypocrisy of America’s liberal elites
Last month, a woman by the name of Susan Patton wrote a letter to the Daily Princetonian advising female undergraduates… Read more »
Heroes and heroines of compassionate conservatism
Top row from left to right: Phillip Blond, David Willetts, Iain Macleod, William Wilberforce, Emmeline Pankhurst, Harold Macmillan, GK Chesterton…. Read more »
In the previous century socialism was the biggest threat to the free market, in this century it could be the internet
Do we use computers, or do computers use us? It’s a silly question, of course – computers don’t have minds… Read more »
What would Margaret Thatcher have done about climate change?
In the late 1980s, Margaret Thatcher became the first major leader to warn the world about global warming. It is… Read more »
