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Shaping the Debate
This booklet, celebrating the Centre for Policy Studies 50th anniversary, showcases the range and importance of the work done by the CPS over 50 years, and its absolute centrality to the conservative tradition.
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Happy Families
The conservative respects popular attitudes and the institutions which they sustain. They do not survive by chance; they survive because they rest on shared wisdom and experience, because they work.
Father of Child Center-cetredness
It is easy enough to consider John Dewey’s educational ideas and to criticise them on various educational grounds. During the course of this pamphlet, I will be doing just that.
Freeing the Phones
The government has decided to end the telephone duopoly. The duopoly was established when, after privatising British Telecom in the early ‘80s, the Government licensed Mercury to compete with BT in providing ordinary telephone service, technically described as public switched network service.
End Egalitarian Delusion: different education for different talents
In its recent white paper education and training for the 21st Century, the government sets out its admirable intention to encourage vocational education of the highest quality alongside traditional academic education.
Croatia at the Crossroads In Search of a Democratic Confederacy
Over the past months, the Centre for Policy Studies has developed an increasing interest in the affairs of central and Eastern Europe. In 1990 John Redwood, now Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, wrote us an excellent paper entitled The Democratic Revolutions.
Competitive Coal
In July 1987 the authors’ Privatise Coal, achieving international competitiveness’ argued that the British coal industry should be liberalised and privatised.
A new direction for the Post office
This paper outlines a method for introducing competition and incentive into the Royal Mail.
A conservative disposition
It is said that conservatism in politics is the appropriate counterpart of a generally conservative disposition in respect of human conduct: to be reformist in business, in morals or in religion and to be conservative in politics is represented as being inconsistent.
A Cautionary Tale of the EMU: Some mistakes, Some Remedies
The Renewed interest in monetary union can be explained largely in terms of the politics of the Franco-German alliance.
A Better BBC: Public Service Broadcasting in the ‘90s
The 1990s will see faster and more dramatic changes in British broadcasting than any decade since the introduction of the ITV network in the 1950s. Already the Government’s broadcasting act has set up a new system of regulation for ITV, Channel 4, and a possible new Channel 5.
Uses of Centre
The counter-revolutions and recent cataclysms in Eastern Europe must not be thought to have banished, once and for all, the optimistic creed of socialism.
The Democratic Revolutions
The world is begin swept by simultaneous democratic revolutions. A movement which began hesitantly in the 1980s has barnstormed its way into the 1990s.
Rewards of Parenthood
Some Conservatives say that since, under God people procreate voluntarily then children are matters of consumer choice: and that the costs of rearing them should be the responsibility of their parents.
Returning to Work: New Directions for the Restart Scheme
Restart was introduced in 1986 by the Manpower Services Commission, during Lord Young’s term as Secretary of State for Employment. The Purpose of the scheme (which now comes under the employment service) is to reduce long-term unemployment: by providing information, individual counselling, and help with making new beginnings.
Raising Educational Standards
The 1988 Education Reform Act established an excellent framework to improve educational standards in Primary, Secondary and higher education.
