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The City That Doesn't Build
Despite the clear need for more houses in London, the capital is building at less than a quarter of the per capita rate of the rest of England, according to new CPS analysis. In the 2024-25 financial year, only 4,170 homes were started in London.
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Privatisation Everywhere: the world’s adoption of the British experience
The worldwide collapse of state socialism has focused new attention on the workings of a free economy. Interest centres above all on how the huge range of industries presently languishing in state control around the globe can be successfully transferred to private ownership.
Monetary Policy after Maastricht: how much independence will Britain Possess?
Recent discussion about the implications of the Maastricht Treaty on European Union has been far ranging and sometimes intense, but little attention has been paid to the nature and extent of the legal obligations assumed by the United Kingdom under the Treaty in relation to monetary union.
The Unhelping Hand: Governments’ intervention in industry
The Labour Party must see itself as omniscient, if it really believes that its industrial policy will set Britain on the road to international success. Industrial policy is the refuge of politicians who realise that nationalisation is no longer fashionable but who still maintain that they know better than market which products will prosper.
The Role of Religion: In the fall of Soviet Communism
The Hugh Seton-Watson memorial lecture of 1988 was the occasion of a devastating analysis of the failure of communism. Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski forecast its coming collapse in heroic style, a prophecy which was to be dramatically fulfilled.
The Political Consequences of PR: the British idea of responsible Government
We are at the moment going through another cycle of demands for electoral reform. No doubt this has been prompted in part by the nearness of a general election, the outcome of which might be a so-called ‘hung’ Parliament in which no single party would have an overall majority.
What’s good for woods
In the past woodlands were a source of wood – and that, for most people, was that.
What’s wrong with Capital Gains Tax
In the political world the general view of capital gains tax is one of indifference; it is a subject little discussed.
Towards an Employee’s Charter
After more than ten years of employment law reform it is not surprising that some are now calling for a halt to the process. But the government have refused to listen to these siren voices and instead have recently recommended further changes in their Green Paper Industrial Relations in the 1990s.
The Importance of Parenting
My topic – the quality of parenting – is an emotional minefield. But when deficient it underlies many problems and caused much misery.
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.
