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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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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.
Diamonds into Glass
A growing malaise has been afflicting British universities during the last ten to fifteen years, and of late it has intensified.
Could do Better
However the recent GCSE results are interpreted, it is regrettably true that the standards and levels of achievement of British school children are just not high enough.
Correct Core
The most marked characteristic of Mrs Thatcher’s governments is the way in which they have changed the nature and premises of political debate.
Clear the Decks
Britain’s industrial superiority during the nineteenth century depended upon our control of vital sea routes.
Choice in Rotten Apples
For the vast majority of school children, the GCSE is the most important examination of their lives. There can be no doubt that in setting and marking and modes of assessment, in the laying down of syllabuses an the selection of textbooks, a great deal of the ideas of the ‘ new orthodoxy’, building on the consensus of the ‘sixties, has successfully – and disastrously – taken over.
Britain’s Biggest Enterprise
The National Health Service is the biggest enterprise in Britain. It absorbs some £21 billion a year – almost £500 from every adult in the country. It treats almost one hundred thousand patients a day. And it is the largest employer in Western Europe, with just under one million employee – almost twice as many as in our entire civil service.
Away with LEAs
Abolition of ILEA should encourage the government to do ore than merely dissolve a high spending Authority with poor academic results.
Aims of Schooling
Since the 1870s English politicians have been worrying about the organisation of schools: church or State? Local or National? Comprehensive or selective? Large or small? Sixth form or tertiary? These are choices which have become familiar to every politician.
A Year in the life of Glasnost
In the summer of 1987, the Centre for Policy Studies held a conference on change in the USSR.
A Mixed Economy for Health Care
In no advanced Western country do health services depend entirely on tax-financed public expenditure. People also spend their own money privately and directly on health care.
Privatise Power
Britain’s electricity supply industry is on the verge of a programme of heavy capital expenditure, to fill a supply gap forecast to widen rapidly in the early years of the next decade.
Victorian Values
Manners and Morals – the expression is peculiarly unmistakable Victorian. Not manners alone: Lord Chesterfield in the eighteenth century was fond of discoursing to his son on the supreme importance of manners, manners as distinct from morals.
The Local Left
There are three main intellectual traditions in the British Labour Party – the Fabens, the Guild socialists and the Marxist.
The Cold War
The Cold War! Many, probably most, of the typical political expressions – the cant phrases, as we would say – of our epoch come from France, and especially from the French revolution.
Science and Politics
In 1872 Walter Bagehot’s physics and politics was published. In it he pointed out that new inventions, particularly the railway and the telegraph, together with the rapid acquisition of physical knowledge were leading to a new world of ideas.
