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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.
Fair Funding or Fiscal Fudge? Continuing Chaos in School Funding
Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education (CRE), Nick Seaton investigates the funding of schools and asks why the LEAs have far too much control over our schools in ‘Fair Funding or Fiscal Fudge?’
The War of Independence
Lord Maurice Saatchi and Peter Warburton look at Britain’s system of tax and spending and propose ways in which to modernise it for the 21st Century in The War of Independence.
Courting Mistrust: The hidden growth of a culture of litigation in Britain
During the past year, a new term has crept into the British political vocabulary: the ‘culture of compensation’. Newspapers have begun to debate and try to make sense of this ‘new’ phenomenon.
Serious Damage
The Deputy Head of the Policy Institute of Directors, Richard Baron looks at the impact of withholding tax on the City of London in the report, ‘Serious Damage.’
Fifty Years of Failure
In the report, ‘Fifty Years of Failure’, Lord Bauer and Cranley Onslow look at the policy of development aid and how it can be reformed so that it is more efficient. With a reply by Clare Short MP.
Conservatism, Democracy and National Identity (The Third Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture)
Editor-at-Large of National Review in the United States and the former Special Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, John O’Sullivan delivers the third Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture: Conservatism, Democracy and National Identity.
The Price of Fairness: The Costs of the Proposed Labour Market Reforms
New Labour was elected on a promise to combine ‘fairness’ and ‘flexibility’ in its labour market policies. In the section on business in its 1997 manifesto, New Labour promised to ‘introduce minimum standards for the individual at work’.
The European Commission: Administration or Government?
If the recent events in the European Community have taught us anything, it is that it is not quite perfect. For all the good work it has done since 1957, it continues to polarise opinion, generate as much fear and dislike as it does admiration, and shoot itself in both feet just when it looks as if it might be able to stand on them.
The Four Failures of the New Deal
MP for Ashford, Damian Green investigates one of New Labour’s flagship policies – the New Deal work programme – and finds how it is damaging to both the unemployed and business.
More Damage to the Family: A Response to the Government’s Consultation Paper
Will the proposals in this document do anything to reverse the disastrous decline and disintegration of family life? Is there a serious agenda to restore marriage? Or is this another “excess of rhetoric”?
Left Home: the Myth of Tory Assentation’s in the Election of 1997
The Conservative Party is about to undertake a comprehensive review of its philosophy and policies. That quest should be primarily shaped by considerations of intellectual integrity. It is, though, both inevitable and proper that matters of political calculation might conceivable enter the equation.
Federal Britain: No longer unthinkable?
FEDERAL BRITAIN ARGUES THAT Tony Blair’s Government is destabilising the political and constitutional framework of the United Kingdom, by devolutionary shreds and patches.
Electoral Reform: The Risks of Unintended Consequences
The Independent Commission on the Voting System is required by its terms of reference to observe four principle conditions. These are “broad proportionality” in any scheme proposed; “the need for stable government”; “an extension of voter choice”; and “the maintenance of a link between MPs and geographical constituencies”. It is highly unlikely that any voting scheme can at once and the same time meet all these criteria.
Further Considerations on the EMU: It will create instability and destroy employment
In the UK, a large number of banks and building societies compete to take deposits and to lend. In consequence any British company or family which can offer adequate security can obtain all the finance it requires at interest rates close to the rate the Bank of England establishes.
Britain’s Final Choice: Europe or America?
I want to thank the Centre for Policy Studies for this distinguished invitation. It would always be a privilege to speak to an organisation founded and inspired by Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher.
A Market under Threat: How the European Union could destroy the British Art Market
A large and important British industry is under threat; not from competitive pressures, but from a hostile tax regime imposed by the European Union
