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Who Wins Under Labour?
‘Who Wins Under Labour?’ shows how fiscal drag – where frozen tax thresholds pull more workers into higher tax bands as wages rise – will quietly erode living standards for millions of middle earners over the coming years.
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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.
Nimbyism
The phrase not in my back yard sprang to fame when it was used by Nicolas Ridley, then Secretary of State for the Environment, to describe the forceful local opposition to development that the building boom of the late 1980’s had stimulated.
Imperatives for Defence
End of the cold war, or variations of that theme, has been a popular refrain accompanying each turn in east-west relations since Mr Gorbachev got into his stride. Sceptics have doubted and urged prudence, especially over measures of disarmament, in so volatile a situation as that obtaining today, with the Soviet Union itself somewhere between disarray and terminal decline and its allies dissociating themselves from the alliance with every gust of popular wind.
Giving: How to encourage charities more
The annual turnover of the charitable sector has been estimated at some £13billion. Charities are being registered by the Charity Commission at the rate of one every 30 minutes for the working day.
‘Exploding’ Wealth for All
Britain’s tax regime favours the creators of wealth who can invest for tomorrow’s expansion out of today’s income before it is taxed. Employees without equity in their workplace enjoy no such benefit in creating wealth for themselves.
EMU now?
As with the pamphlet Monetarism Lost published last year by the Centre for Policy Studies, this paper was written in great haste in response to topical events. I have not had time to seek extensive comments on it, and mistakes and opinions are very much my own responsibility.
Conservatism & the Paradox of Europe
One of human nature’s most popular impulses is to eat your cake and still have it in front of you. This is especially true in politics, where persuading everybody that you are keeping them happy can mean the difference between office and obscurity.
City Technological Colleges
The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker, PC, MP, then Secretary of State for Education and Science, announced the City Technology College programme at the Cosnervative Party Annual Conference on 7 October, 1986.
Arms and the Men
Julian Brazier draws on several years’ experience of service in the defence forces and work on defence procurement. His paper should be read as a companion to the official Government White Paper on Defence issued this summer.
An African Enterprise
The release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in goal, was rightly hailed as being of international significance. It marked not only a victory for humanity but also gave the first real public signal that apartheid was about to expire.
Pleasure and profit from canals
Keith Boyfield, a Research Fellow of the CPS Nationalised Industries’ Study Group, proposes that British Waterways should be split into three parts
Teachers Mistaught
Warning-bells should have been sounded in the days – not so long ago – when departments and faculties of education began to proliferate in the universities. Yet the likely, or perhaps the inevitable, consequence of their growth do not appear to have been properly predicted.
Monetary Union
Let me acknowledge that there are many questions which need to be answered by those who, like me, favour moves towards a common currency for Europe.
Who Cares
Child abuse has become a major political issue over the last fifteen years in Britain. Considerable controversy has been generated both by the debate on the true extent of the problem and by discussion of what the state can or should do about it.
The Power of the Pendulum
The press greeted the summer of 1989 with forecasts of a summer of discontent, a season that would do for Mrs Thatcher what the winter of 1978-9 did for Mr Callaghan. This has proved to be a mirage.
