Government to people: We’ve got a truth ray and we’re going to use it – on you
Here’s a prediction for the year 2032: The US Department of Homeland Security has obtained a "new laser-based molecular scanner"… Read more »
Edited by Peter Franklin
Opportunity begins at home
Conservatives don’t believe in equality of outcome, because that, obviously, would be communism. But what about equality of opportunity –… Read more »
From Blue Labour to Red China: Another argument against Ed Balls
Yesterday, the Deep End featured an argument against Keynesian stimulus from Maurice Glasman – the ‘Blue Labour’ guru. Today, we… Read more »
Labour’s ‘Viagra economics’ is doomed to flop
In many ways Maurice Glasman – now Lord Glasman – is an old-fashioned socialist. In other ways, however, this sometime… Read more »
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 »
‘Casino capitalism’ – a disgraceful slur (on casinos)
Those who compare the financial sector to the gambling industry show little understanding of either. Whereas casinos, bookies and the… 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 »
Adam Smith: One nation conservative
Benjamin Disraeli is the great hero of ‘one nation’ conservatism; Adam Smith, however, tends be associated with other schools of… Read more »
On getting married to yourself
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. In this age of individualism, a few individuals are pushing the… Read more »
The terrible truth about the British people
Some people just can’t help themselves. Faced with a hornets’ nest, their immediate response is to aim a well-placed kick… Read more »
How not to get ripped off on public infrastructure
When it comes to the great financial scandals of our time, how much of the moral high ground does the… Read more »
What Cameron and co could learn from Tesco
Supermarkets come in for a lot of stick – some of it deserved. But the critics lack credibility if they… Read more »
Secularism versus democracy
Can you guess which publication the following came from? "It compromises democracy, it promotes and rewards hypocrisy and doublethink, it… Read more »
A proven formula for growth: Beat the Germans and slash government spending
David Henderson, of the Hoover Institution has a history lesson for us. It concerns the Second World War and its… Read more »
Spoiled, immature, out-of-control – and that’s just the parents
One of the key arguments against the unreformed welfare state is that it creates a culture of dependency – turning… Read more »
