Who pays the piper – is state science the murderer of invention?
The Centre for Policy Studies is hosting a panel debate – “Who pays the piper – is state science the murderer of invention?”.
Who pays the piper – is state art the murderer of invention?
The Centre for Policy Studies is hosting a panel debate on state art versus liberty at the 2014 Margaret Thatcher Lecture on Liberty, to be held at the Guildhall on Wednesday 18 June 2014.
Daily Telegraph: Thatcher’s descendants are in danger of losing the culture war
Toby Young argues that ‘the state is entitled to insist that all schools teach children to respect the values that are part of our common culture, but it isn’t entitled to dictate every last detail of what’s taught in the classroom or to instruct schools about what teachers they can and can’t hire.’ He will speak at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on Wednesday 18th June.
Daily Telegraph: Margaret Thatcher was a champion of freedom – exactly what Europe needs now
José María Aznar, Spanish prime minister from 1996 to 2004, argues tthat despite being branded as anti-Europeanist, Britain’s former PM firmly believed in a Europe of nation-states based on cooperation and trade.
Daily Telegraph: Lord Saatchi – Cut corporation tax for small businesses
Peter Dominiczak discusses how Lord Saatchi, the chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think-tank, has called on the Government to offer major tax cuts to Britain’s small firms.
Daily Telegraph: Today’s Tories have forgotten the need for hard thinking
John O’Sullivan, director of the Danube Institute in Budapest and a fellow of the National Review Institute, discusses the founding of the Centre for Policy Studies and its significance in political history. He will speak at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on Wednesday 18th June.
Daily Telegraph: A radical policy to set small businesses free
Maurice Saatchi discusses the publishing of ‘The Road from Serfdom’, a policy paper to coincide with the CPS’s Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty and the think tank’s 40th anniversary on Wednesday 18th June. The paper proposes that corporation tax be abolished for small companies. And that capital gains tax be abolished for investors in small companies.
Daily Telegraph: Arthur Laffer – still ahead of the curve, the man with a simple tax plan
Szu Ping Chan discusses Professor Art Laffer’s monumental contribution to supply side economics and his argument that high taxes stifle growth – a view which shaped US and UK monetarism policies under Reagan and Thatcher.
Get Britain fracking or be held hostage by Russia, says think tank (Daily Telegraph)
The Centre for Policy Studies Growth Bulletin was written up in a Daily Telegraph article, Monday 9 June 2014.
WATCH: #ThePolicy
CPS Chairman Lord Saatchi launches ‘The Road from Serfdom’, A.K.A. #ThePolicy, at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty.
Is the coalition’s green agenda dying? (City A.M.)
CPS Head of Economic Research Adam Memon contributed to a City A.M. debate against Matthew Sinclair.
The Queen’s Speech: Plenty of good ideas but more vision needed
CPS reaction to the Queen’s Speech 2014.
Has the row over the Pfizer-Astrazeneca deal harmed our reputation as an open economy? (City A.M.)
CPS Head of Economic Research Adam Memon contributed to a City A.M. debate on the proposed Pfizer-Astrazeneca deal.
Keep Competition on the Rails (The Observer)
CPS Research Fellow Tony Lodge wrote to The Observer letters on rail competition.
In the online battle of ideas, capitalism must go on the attack (Daily Telegraph)
CPS Board Member Jonnie Goodwin wrote for the Daily Telegraph on the interactive digital think tank to be launched by the Centre for Policy Studies
New DCLG proposals for the LGPS: a win-win for taxpayers and employees
These savings will accumulate over the years, potentially saving the LGPS employers (i.e. taxpayers) many £ billions in employment costs.
