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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.
Sense of Sovereignty
Any Martian who spend the year 1991 observing events on Earth would have concluded that something called ‘sovereignty’ was one of the most important elements of human affairs.
Soviet Calculations: The shifting correlation of forces
A year ago, we were told that history had ended. Those who questioned this proposition can feel justified, though far from comforted, by the fact that it has been so quickly disproved.
LEA’s Old & New: A view from Wandsworth
The days of the LEAs as most of them still operate, are or should be numbered. They must no longer play the dominant role in deciding the range of schools, or the nature of the education provided, in any area.
Reading, Learning and the National Curriculum
To judge from the arrangements for assessment at the age of seven – recently published for in the National Curriculum – one might suppose that the intention of the Education Reform Act was being fulfilled.
Inspecting Schools: Breaking the Monopoly
The external inspection of schools and colleges maintained by a local education authority (LEA) takes place in two ways.
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.
