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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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Thatcherism
When Chou En Lai was asked what was the significance of the French Revolution he replied it was too early to say. So it is certainly far too soon to determine the historic significance of the Thatcher revolution.
Set Food Markets Free
Government monopolies control the market of milk, wool and potatoes in Britain. This paper outlines the origin of these monopolies in the 1930s; their growth into large commercial operations; the economic, social and technical changes which have occurred since 1930 and the position of such national monopolies in a common European market.
Science Fiction
During the mid-1980s Britain’s scientists exploded with anger. They believed that a mean government was destroying their science and their universities.
Policies Against Pollution
The Governments program for environmental protection seems to have come as something of a shock to some of the less well informed commentators.
Of Dukes and Dustmen
A completely new charge, impost, levy, tax – call it what you will – is certain to be sometimes misrepresented and often misunderstood. Hard cases, exemptions, the complexity which is inevitable given the infinite variety of our styles of living, all add to the confusion.
Nationalised Universities
In July 1988 Mr Kenneth Baker, so it seemed, nationalised Britain’s universities contravening the principles professed by the government which he serves.
Monetarism Lost
etween mod-1996 and mid 1988 the British economy experienced a full scale boom. Over the two years national output rose almost 10 per cent, much faster than could be sustained in the long term.
Maths Problem
In July 1987 the Department of Education and Science issued the ‘discussion document’, The National Curriculum 5-16, setting out proposals for the establishment of a national curriculum, attainment targets and testing at ages 7, 11, 14, and 16.
Joining the EMS for and Against
Discussions of possible British membership of the EMS have unfortunately become highly politicised. Both supporters and opponents frequently claim that such a move is far more than it appears to be on the surface – that it is a stepping stone on what may be either a more glittering, or more sinister, path.
Exertion & Example
Everyone seeks in history a justification for the present and even, sometimes, a guide to the future.
Europe 1992 The Good and the Bad
1992 offers many opportunity to British enterprise, It will mean that Europe is more open for business, and that should bring with it increased prosperity. But schizophrenia reigns in the political councils of Europe.
Drift to Union
What is the European Community trying to become? A common market, within which goods and services are freely traded? Or a federal European Union with a central government in Brussels?
Custody Considered
Sentencing policy in Britain has reached an awkward stage. There is doubt about the extent to which prison fulfils any of the expectations of the public. Certainly, it punishes; and expresses the outrage which people feel towards many of the crimes which afflict us.
A Europe of Diversity
I confess to a reluctance to talk of Europe Today. It springs from the fact that the great events in the world seem to be happening elsewhere. We think of the Soviet Empire, which seems at last to be breaking up; we think of nations and peoples which we had quite forgotten existed, or of which perhaps we have never even heard, now making their way through the headlines of our Western papers into history.
Moral Evasion
David Selbourne discusses the lack of morality that has symbolised debates in recent times.
A year in the life of Glasnost – Zbiginiew Brzezinski
The January 1988 CPS lecture by Zbiginiew Brzezinski captures the mood of the times while being extraordinarily prescient.
