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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 analysis published by the Centre for Policy Studies.
The City That Doesn’t Build
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.
Privatise the Post
The government has taken large steps in order to improve the performance of the postal industry in Britain.
Privatise Coal
The nationalised coal industry is now in better shape than it has been for many years.
More to do
Without an educated citizenry all the achievements of the present government will be built upon sand.
