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Who Wins Under Labour?
‘Who Wins Under Labour?’ shows how fiscal drag – where frozen tax thresholds pull more workers into higher tax bands as wages rise – will quietly erode living standards for millions of middle earners over the coming years.
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Trials of Honeyford
In he autumn of 1980, Ray Honeyford, then aged 46 was appointed to the headship of Drummond Middle School in Bradford. He was a supporter of the Labour Party, a Catholic who had been born one of eleven children in a Manchester slum, gained an MA while head of English at a Manchester comprehensive and later gained a second degree in psychology.
Terrorism and Tolerance
I have never until tonight had an opportunity to express publically my admiration for my old friend Ross McWhirter.
Technical Schools
New attitudes to open elites and healthy competition are urgently needed in our education system. The pursuit of uniformity has been a mistake and has greatly hindered our attempts to become competitive in world trade. If political courage is needed to admit this, so be it.
Qualgos just Grow
Voluntary bodies today enjoy an aggregate annual income of almost £10billion, a sum which is increasing fast. But the term Voluntary is a misnomer.
Put Pits into Profit
Government policy towards the coal industry should have in sight the following targets.
Owners All
Few human aspirations are stronger than that of ownership. Nor will it be denied that ownership can confer independence and dignity.
New Light on Star Wars
Serious discussion about the strategic defence initiative in space began in the United States in the late 1960s.
Nationalised Industries
This study was prepared for the Nationalised Industries Study Group of the Centre for Policy studies by Trevor Morse.
Monetarism Morality
It is a very great privilege to be invited to give this lecture in memory of Patrick Hutber.
Greening the Tories
This study springs from what has been fashionably regarded as a Neurosis. Let me label this ‘neurosis’ as the nervous, defensive, even backward looking search for a new Englishness. It has a suitably journalistic and sociological ring about it.
Gentrification or Growth
Traditionally there have been two main systems which can lead to prosperity and vigorous civilisation. One is based on imperial conquest. That is the Roman way and the way proposed by the Soviet Russia.
Comments on ‘The City of London Draft Local Plan’
The local government Working Party of the Centre for Policy Studies is currently undertaking a review of the planning system, and to that end is examining several plans of which the City of London Draft local Plan is one.
Bringing Accountability back to Local Government
Central government at present funds just under 49% of the costs of local government in England through block grants, specific and supplementary grants and domestic rate relief.
Which Direction? Board Appointments in Nationalised Industries
Inadequate salaries and continued governmental intervention in the running of nationalised industries have actively discouraged able men from accepting senior management responsibility in the nationalised industries. The temptation to blame defective management and disruptive workforces for all the ills of nationalisation frequently disguises the fact that governments are at least equally responsible for the plight of ailing state industries.
Wages Need No Councils
A government that has set its face against incomes policies in any form has left untouched in striking anomaly; the wages councils. These still regulate, though not with excessive zeal. The wages of nearly three million workers: about one worker in every eight.
The New Corruption
This report analyses some of the disturbing trends which have emerged recently in Local Government, which have serious implications for democracy in Britain. Indeed, the combination of these trends may be so sinister as to warrant the description, “The New Corruption”.
