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How Many Homes Does the UK Need?
Decades of lacklustre housebuilding and recent record migration have left the UK with a shortfall of more than 6.5 million homes. The debut research by Head of Housing Ben Hopkinson shows how the UK has fallen dramatically behind comparable European countries, with British families paying the price through unaffordable homes.
Energy Policy – the feedback from reality
The fundamental purpose of any energy policy should be to ensure the provision of reliable and affordable energy supplies.
The Localism Papers 2 Neighbourhood Education
Schools are failing. Although exam grades keep rising, the performance of our children compares poorly both
Crossing the Threshold: 266 ways the State can enter your home
By Harry Snook The subject of entry powers, and particularly of those other than the police and security services, has been of interest to me for nearly 30 years, ever since the decision in the House of Lords in the Rossminster case (R v IRC, ex p Rossminster [1980] AC 952) drew attention to the… View Article
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Applying Ronald Reagan’s “killer question” to the UK today
In the 1980 US presidential debates, Ronald Reagan’s most influential comment was judged to be his closing question to the audience: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
A Green Budget? A note for the 2007 budget
A previous CPS paper looked at the economic record of the Chancellor and concluded that even though the economy had grown well since 1997,
The cost of the London Mayor
Lord Palmerston said the Schleswig-Holstein question was so complicated only three people understood it. One was dead, the second had gone mad, the third, Palmerston himself, had forgotten. Much the same could be said of the financing of local government in Britain.
Supply Side Politics: How Citizens’ Initiatives could revitalise British politics
Professor Qvortrup, acknowledged as “the world’s leading authority on referendums”, argues that what was true for economics may also be true for democracy: a greater supply of democracy could create a demand for political participation
Climate change: a guide to the scientific uncertainties
The words “climate change” have taken on a specific meaning. Constant repetition in the media means that the general public now generally believes that recent climate changes have been unprecedented, are due primarily to mankind’s activities and are likely to end in overall harm or, at worst, disaster for both us and the planet.
Three Cheers for Selection: How grammar schools help the poor
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, Britain cannot afford to educate its people less well than the best in other countries. We have to educate everyone well, and our most able brains superbly well, if we are to compete globally with educated people from the rest of the developed world and perhaps particularly from the emerging new economies in the east.
A fiscal framework for the future
The March 2006 Budget will be the Chancellor’s tenth. There is a widespread feeling that politics will dominate the Budget with economics taking a secondary role.
An agenda for tax reform
Twenty-four years ago Margaret Thatcher inaugurated nearly two decades of reform, designed to restore Britain economically to the low-inflation and dynamic economy it once had been.
The tax double whammy: More tax costs more than you think
By the time of the next election, the tax burden will have gone up 4.2% of GDP compared with 1996/97.
Handle with Care: An investigation into the care system
THIS REPORT takes a look at young people in care and what happens when they leave care.
Lean, not mean: how small government works
Which type of government gives its citizens the best services, the best standard of living and the most equitable outcomes? Big governments? Or leaner governments?
From principles to policy: What an alternative manifesto should say
A MANIFESTO is more than a collection of policies. It should set out the principles on which the governance of the country will be based, and should show how the policies that are advocated are rooted in those values.
Big Bang 20 years on: New challenges facing the financial services sector
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY of the radical reform of the London Stock Exchange that came to be known as ‘Big Bang’ thoroughly deserves the thoughtful celebration this collection of essays provides.
