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Taking Back Control
A new report from Robert Jenrick MP, Neil O’Brien MP, and CPS Research Director Karl Williams argues that the scale and composition of recent migration have failed to deliver the significant economic and fiscal benefits its advocates promised, while putting enormous pressure on housing, public services and infrastructure.
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Vanishing Words: Spoken English, the GCSE and the National Curriculum
Should Spoken English contribute to candidates overall marks in public examinations 0 as it will in GCSE English from this summer? There are good reasons to think not.
Out of sight out of mind: the dangerous neglect of Britain’s ‘invisibles’
Britain’s invisible earnings are so condemned to obscurity by the very name they go by. Yet they are the hidden crown jewels of the economy.
The Goldsmith Fallacy: Why open trade and the Gatt are best
Sir James goldsmith proposes to severely restrict or eliminate international trade and to do away with the GATT.
The challenge for Europe
On 23 August, 1987, several thousand people gathered in the three Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union, namely Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to protest against the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and Communist Russia.
Opting for Freedom: A Stronger policy for grant-maintained schools
Today, out of 24,503 schools in England and Wales 829 are Grant-Maintained (GM). That is 3.38 per cent. The dramatic movement to GM status, so confidently expected, has not yet occurred. Why not?
Nursery Choices: the right way to pre-school education
The Expansion of nursery education is on the agenda of all political parties, but it appears to be far from the battleground of politics. Political differences seem to vanish when the subject is raised.
Divorce Dissent: Dangers in Divorce Reform
Late in 1993 the Government published its detailed proposals for reforming the divorce law in the Green Paper Looking to the Future Mediation and the Ground for Divorce.
An Awful Warning: The War in ex-Yugoslavia
As the war in Bosnia slowly approached its bloody and messy end, with a sort of peace in sight at long last the acrimonious debate about the rights and wrongs of the part played by outside powers in the conflict has abated somewhat.
American and Britain: Is the relationship still special?
To speak of a ‘special’ relationship between Britain and the United states is to embark on a delicate task of definition. Recently this description of the Anglo-American relationship has become a subject of controversy and, as in any polemic, its original content obscured and confused.
The Dearing debate: Assessment of the National Curriculum
At the Centre’s education conferences in 1993 – of which this is the third – one issues has been central: the role of the state versus that f the voluntary body in the country’s schools.
The Crisis of the Welfare State: Ethics and Economics
All over the world, lapel buttons inscribed ‘communism; have begun to fall like autumn leaves; but not only buttons marked ‘communism’, also those inscribed ‘socialism’.
The Constitutional Mania
A permanent feature of British political life is some conviction about the global cause of all our woes. Capitalism, the class system and inability to market our brilliant ideas are such familiar convictions. Since the 1980’s, however, opinion has settled on the British constitution, or, as some would say, the lack of one, as the primal fault.
The Blue Horizon
There is no point in pretending that our government and our party are riding high. My boss, Ken Clark, says that we are in a dreadful hole. If we are in a hole, we are certainly not alone. According to the opinion polls there is a general public disillusion with British politics and British politicians.
Testing Time: the Dearing Review and the future of the National Curriculum
Sir Ron Dearing’s Interim Report on his review of the National curriculum has seemed to many observers a politic compromise between the demands of teachers and the requirements of the Government. But it fails to tackle to Curriculum’s underlying problems, and its central proposals are confused and contradictory.
Britain and the Community: The Right Way Forward
Twenty years have passed since Britain committed itself to the Treaty of Rome and thereby became a member of what at the time was still formally designated the European Economic Community and known more familiarly as the Common Market.
Privitise the Prosecutors: Efficiency and Justice in the Criminal Courts
In 1985, the Conservative government created the Crown Prosecution Service. Unlike other state-administered services the CPS was not intended to further Utopian ideals of equality and social justice, nor to harmonise one area of public service provision with others.
