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The Target 2 the heart of Europe cps.org.uk
Like with icebergs, the financial hazards you can see are manageable,...
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A Bottom Up Look at the Top Down cps.org.uk
For a conservative non-economist, reading that IPPR has responded to...
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BLOG: "A Bottom Up Look at the Top Down" - Ted @Bromund
For a conservative non-economist, reading that IPPR has responded to...
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BLOG: "The Target 2 the heart of Europe"
Like with icebergs, the financial hazards you can see are manageable,...
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From Britain, More Evidence That Smaller Government Is Better...
The past week has seen the publication of two important studies on...
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U-turns show 'tax reform without tax cuts is a political disaster' cps.org.uk
As soon as I heard about the Government's u-turns on the pasty and...
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VIDEO: Jin Liquin lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies cps.org.uk
Jin Liqun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Investment...
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Video: Jin Liquin lecture to the Centre for Policy Studies
Jin Liqun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the China Investment...
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A reply to IPPR on Small is Best cps.org.uk
IPPR seem to have a dedicated CPS output response wing broadcasting...
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Small is Best cps.org.uk
Economies with small governments tend to grow faster than those with...
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What is it going to take for the government to regain control?
There can be little reasoned debate about the fact that the government is going through troubled times. It's not a crisis. But (other ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg MP youtube.com
"Is Disraeli right: 'A sound Conservative government... Tory men and Whig measures?" lecture by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg to the Centre for Policy Studies, St. Stephen's Club, 10th May 2012.

‘The Iron Lady’ Review: Slandering Lady Thatcher’s Legacy as Only Hollywood Can (Big Hollywood)
In a review for the Big Hollywood website, Charles C. Johnson criticises the innaccuracies and absences from 'The Iron Lady', including ...
In a review for the Big Hollywood website, Charles C. Johnson criticises the innaccuracies and absences from 'The Iron Lady', including the Centre for Policy Studies. "This is a subtle project, but a thorough one. Here are but...

Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the influential Treasury Select Committee, this morning delivered a speech arranged by the Centre for ...
Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the influential Treasury Select Committee, this morning delivered a speech arranged by the Centre for Policy Studies on the IMF and the Eurozone. You can now download the full speech here and stay...

Ryan Bourne - Minimum alcohol pricing: illogical, illiberal, unfair
today we learn that the Prime Minister and Home Secretary are pushing ahead with minimum alcohol pricing – starting at 40p a unit but ...
Last month, we published the most recent in our series of debate questions: “Is it right to introduce a minimum alcohol price to tackle alcohol-related problems?” An overwhelming number of readers came down on the side of...

How did a Conservative Chancellor deliver 7% growth after the 1930s Depression?
George Tregarne, CPS Expert and author of Metroboom writes for Conservative Home and discusses the relevance and comparisons that can be ...
George Tregarne, CPS Expert and author of Metroboom writes for Conservative Home and discusses the relevance and comparisons that can be made from Britain's economy in the 1930s and now. "As George Osborne and his Treasury team...

The 2012 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture
THE LIMITS TO THE MARKET - LESSONS FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

CPS Head of Economic Research Ryan Bourne writes for Conservative Home on the advantages of the CPS proposal to give every UK taxpayer a ...
CPS Head of Economic Research Ryan Bourne writes for Conservative Home on the advantages of the CPS proposal to give every UK taxpayer a share in the nationalised RBS and Lloyds banks. The only certainty that seemed to stem...

Payment by results and the public sector: the worst of all worlds?
"We are in Nick Leeson territory. This is what Huseyin Djemil warns in his damning review of how the Coaliton’s ‘drugs recovery PbR’ ...
Centre for Policy Studies cps.org.uk
The Centre for Policy Studies is one of Britains leading think tanks. It develops promotes policies to limit the role of the state, to encourage enterpriseto enable the institutions of society – such families voluntary...

Protect our children from this toxic cocktail of permissiveness & technology
Kathy Gyngell, Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, continues her series blogging for the Daily Mail's Right Minds by ...
Kathy Gyngell, Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, continues her series blogging for the Daily Mail's Right Minds by looking at the effect of a liberal parenting attitude towards Facebook and other technology....

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Is going green putting us further in the red? us2.campaign-archive1.com
CPS Headlines Tim Yeo MP and Lord Lawson debate the economic merits of 'going green' Policy Forum Lunch with Francis Maude MP Roger Bootle of Capital Economics to deliver the Keith Joseph Lecture Is there a valid economic case...

Has Ed Miliband struck the right note with his 'Rip-Off Britain' battlecry?
'Fairness' and 'being fair' are key themes in politics these days. So Ed Miliband could well have struck the right note in many ears ...

Who should a British conservative support in the race for a Republican Presidential nomination?
by Ryan Bourne
Yesterday saw the end of campaigning in Iowa ahead of the caucuses there today. The race for the Republican nomination ...
Yesterday saw the end of campaigning in Iowa ahead of the caucuses there today. The race for the Republican nomination has taken some extraordinary twists so far with the candidates seemingly taking it in turns to top the...

CPS Research Fellow Rupert Darwall writes for the Wall Street Journal on David Cameron's decision to veto the EU treaty.
"No British ...
David Cameron's Veto (Wall Street Journal) cps.org.uk
CPS Research Fellow Rupert Darwall writes for the Wall Street Journal on David Cameron's decision to veto the EU treaty. To view the article at the Wall Street Journal (£), click here. The 26 members of the EU-minus-Britain...

The eurozone implodes: politicians’ dreams encounter a stark reality check (Dublin Finance)
'You need to change your way of living and change your way of spending,' is the message sent to the eurozone by Gao Xiqing, who as chief ...
CPS Research Fellow Keith Boyfield writes for Finance Dublin on the realities being encountered by Eurozone politicians. 'You need to change your way of living and change your way of spending,' is the message sent to the...

The Centre for Policy Studies recently released ‘Escaping the Strait Jacket’ authored by Dominic Raab MP – a look at ten regulatory ...
Ten Regulatory Reforms That Will Create Jobs egovmonitor.com
The Centre for Policy Studies recently released ‘Escaping the Strait Jacket’ authored by Dominic Raab MP – a look at ten regulatory reforms that could help to create jobs. 1. Exclude start-ups, micro- and small-businesses from...

Excellent article from CPS board member Lord Forsyth on UK debt and the hibernating private sector.
The chief executive of a successful British food manufacturer told me last weekend that he wants to expand his factory. His problem is that his local authority insists that he first carries out a dormouse survey. As dormice...
