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Patently Absurd
Despite world-class universities and a strong science base, Britain produces fewer patents per person than most major economies. More concerning still, innovation in Britain is declining at the same time as it is accelerating in other global markets.
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In Blood Stepp’d In So Far: Towards realism in Afghanistan
In this paper, Conservative MP Adam Holloway showes how NATO’s operation in Afghanistan is on the brink of failure and called for a more realistic policy which accepts that there is always going to be some level of insurgency in Afghanistan.
The Hidden Debt Bombshell
In this paper, Conservative MP Brooks Newmark calculates the true level of public debt to be £2,220 billion (159% of GDP).
What Women Want: And How They Can Get It
In this paper, CPS Research Fellow Cristina Odone uses new polling data specially commissioned for this report showed how the Labour Governments policy on women’s rights and welfare harms children and families, and fails to deliver what women want.
Too Big To Live: Why we must stamp out state-monopoly capitalism
In this paper, historian Niall Ferguson argues that the first priority for a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer must be to address one of the key causes of the financial crisis: the existence of financial institutions that consider themselves too big to fail – but which are run in such a way that they are bound to do so.
Too Big To Live: Why we must stamp out state-monopoly capitalism
In this paper, historian Niall Ferguson argues that the first priority for a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer must be to address one of the key causes of the financial crisis: the existence of financial institutions that consider themselves too big to fail – but which are run in such a way that they are bound to do so.
Don’t Let the Crisis Go To Waste: A simple and affordable way of increasing retirement income
CPS Research Fellow, Michael Johnson, recommends significant reforms to the proposals for Personal Accounts – in particular, allowing savers to concentrate their pension savings over the first ten years of retirement, allowing for higher incomes during the active part of most people’s retirement and enable the State Pension to be raised.
School Quangos: a blueprint for abolition and reform
In this paper, CPS Research fellow Tom Burkard and CPS Research Director Sam Talbot, detail how the functions of 11 school quangos can either be abolished, or moved out of state control.
Benefit Simplification
In this paper, CPS Research Fellow David Martin, discusses how and why benefit simplification must be done.
A House Divided
In this paper, MP for Dover and CPS Fellow Charlie Elphicke, analyses how the poorest households in the UK have fared badly since 1997.
What’s Wrong With 50p?
In this Pointmaker paper, Jill Kirby and Iain Griffiths, put forwards what was one of the first critical analyses of government proposals to raise the top rate of income tax to 50p.
A New Great Reform Act
In this paper, former author and journalist Sir Anthony Jay, shows that the whole system of government must be turned on its end and that it is time for a new Great Reform Act.
The Reality Gap: An analysis of the failure of big government
In this paper, former Director of the CPS Jill Kirby, analyses the failure of big government.
Its Ours: Why we, not the government, must own our data
In this paper, Councillor Liam Maxwell, argues that the Government should give people back their ability to control their data (such as medical records) that the government traditionally holds.
The Myth of Inflation Targeting: the largest policy failure of our generation
In this paper, Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies Maurice Saatchi, published this report to coincide with the introduction of his Bill in the House of Lords on the same subject.
The Phoney War on Drugs
The UK now has one of the most liberal drug policies in Europe. Both Sweden and the Netherlands (despite popular misconceptions) have a more rigorous approach – and far fewer problems with drugs.
The Stock Market Under Labour: the legacy of Gordon Brown
In this paper. Stock market historian John Littlewood, analyses the performance of the London Stock Market under Labour and how it has been worse than those of all other major Western economies (with the exception of Japan).
