Philip Booth: What ministers should learn from Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
byThere is a great article by Philip Booth over at CentreRight, on Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty: In essence it explains how a complex…
Politics
First reading of Carswell’s Financial Services Bill
by Mark GoodhandDouglas Carswell MP yesterday delivered a superb speech in support of his eagerly anticipated Financial Services (Regulation of Deposits and Lending) Bill, introduced as…
CentreRight: Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform
by Steve BakerOn CentreRight, I explain that Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform: There is a doctrine which creates wealth and spreads it around. It…
Let universities choose their entrance criteria
by Tim LucasA simple tweak to the funding of school exam boards would lead to better standards and more appropriate examinations at lower cost The grade…
EU Referendum Campaign launched
by Steve BakerThis post originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Dan Hannan and Ruth Lea have launched the EU Referendum Campaign: The EURC is an organisation that is…
Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment
by Toby Baxendale”The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion,” wrote the former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson in his memoirs….
Harriet Harman’s Revenge
by Toby BaxendaleYesterday I discovered a brilliant article by Graham Stewart about the legal challenges to the Coalition budget launched by the Fawcett Society: successive anti-discriminatory…
John Bright: The “Angel of Death has Been Abroad” Speech – A Poetic Anti-War Masterpiece
by Toby BaxendaleJohn Bright and Richard Cobden are forever associated because they were both industrial capitalists, Corn Law Reform free traders, Anti War campaigners, and founders…
Do ideas matter?
by Mark GoodhandIn his latest article for Centre Right, Steve Baker asks “Do ideas matter?” The Labour Party apparently thinks so: I have lost count of…
Time for a mildly radical proposal?
by Abhinandan MallickWhy the Tories should abolish the Bank of England, and why they will politically benefit from doing so The Conservative Party, since forming their…