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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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The Power of Ideas
In his speech in January to an audience especially invited by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was eloquent on the necessity, and the force, of new ideas to sustain and carry forward a government.
The Local Right
For the last 150 years local authorities of various persuasions have represented and served their various communities. By Nicholas Ridley MP.
Signals from a Railway Conference
On Friday 28th October the Centre for Policy Studies assembled some 100 railway enthusiasts, analysts, critics and transport specialists for a conference to discuss ways forward for British railways.
Reviving the Railways
It is time to challenge the railway industry. If policy is not changed, it could degenerate. It is too comfortable, constricted and confused. Alternatively, but seemingly so much more laborious it could be reborn. It has the best prospect on offer in nearly a century.
Property Services Agency
The origins of the Property Services Agency can fairly be traced back to the Middle Ages when the Sovereign employed a Clerk of the Works to maintain the royal palaces.
Planning Planning
The Government is pledged to remove constraints on the operation and expansion of businesses and to encourage the spread of home ownership; indeed, these pledges are central to its economic policies.
Pensions & Privilege
The number of shareholders in Britain has grown dramatically in the last five years, but the proportion of equities held by individuals continues to decline.
Opting Out
The education Bill before Parliament honours the promise made by the government before the general election to give state schools the chance to opt out of local authority control and run themselves.
Natural Partners
It is an irony that many critics of Thatcherism who allege that it has lost its connection with its ancient conservative roots, are precisely those who were complacent at Britain’s steady movement into corporatism.
Managed Health Care
The NHS has been rationing access to health care in Britain since 1948. Poor management and lack of incentive have contributed to the lengthening waiting-lists and low morale amongst the providers.
Making Unionism Positive
The last General Election produced one of the worst results ever for the Conservative party in Schotland.
In Sickness and in Health
It seems longer than three months ago that Oliver Letwin and I first wrote about health.
Home Truths for Foreign Aid
The present Government has embarked on a programme to reshape Britain – its institutions, the attitudes of its society and the aspirations of its individual citizens.
Errors & Evil of New History
The purpose of this paper is to disclose to the general reader some of the ways in which, under the guise of history, which is one of the foundation subjects of the proposed national curriculum, secondary school children are being introduced to a subject very different to anything which their parents are likely to have been taught.
