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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.
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.
A New Britain
Earlier this month, Margaret Thatcher became the longest serving Prime Minister this century – and indeed well before the next election it will have become mathematically impossible for anyone else to take the record from her.
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.
