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Patently Absurd
Despite world-class universities and a strong science base, Britain produces fewer patents per person than most major economies. More concerning still, innovation in Britain is declining at the same time as it is accelerating in other global markets.
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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.
The Egalitarian Conceit
For two centuries, ever since the revolution of 1789, Europe has been haunted by the spectre of egalitarianism. Yet the pursuit of equality has benefited precious few.
The Democratic Deficit
People who dwell on the past forget that most of what we have inherited was achieved by those who looked forwards not back.
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.
