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The City That Doesn't Build
Despite the clear need for more houses in London, the capital is building at less than a quarter of the per capita rate of the rest of England, according to new CPS analysis. In the 2024-25 financial year, only 4,170 homes were started in London.
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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.
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.
