Brian Micklethwait on Toby Baxendale
byVia Brian Micklethwait, an interview with Cobden Centre Chairman, Toby Baxendale The thing I find particularly intriguing about Toby is how his thinking in…
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Cobden, Northern Ireland and the Conservative & Unionist Party Electoral Alliance
byBackground I have been a long term supporter of and donor to the Conservative Party for many years. From a young age, I have…
Make Britain safer – pull our troops out of Afghanistan – Telegraph
byVia Make Britain safer – pull our troops out of Afghanistan – Telegraph, Jeff Randall argues that we should pull out of Afghanistan: Decent people…
Britain’s Business Community – Your Country Needs You!
byChris Neal explains how the reports of the Centre for Social Justice and Conservative Party policy are converging in a direction which tends towards…
Why Budget Deficits are Bad for the Economy and Why Sir Samuel Brittan is Wrong
byToby Baxendale exposes flaws in the economic thinking of the left, indicates the dangers of deficit spending and points to a better way to…
CentreRight: Manchesterism
byVia CentreRight: Manchesterism, ConservativeHome explores the ideas shared by our inspiration, Richard Cobden: Most of us in the South associate “the North” politically as…
New Book Reveals the Total Cost of Gordon Brown’s mishandling of the economy as £3 TRILLION
byVia the Taxpayers’ Alliance: That’s £50,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK In their new book Fleeced! Matthew Elliott, CEO of…
War in Afghanistan
byVia The Guardian At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage…
The Welfare State in Crisis
byThere are 2.7 million people claiming Incapacity Benefit in this nation. I often wonder if after the World War Two, did we have more…
The Problem with GDP
bySean Corrigan, Chief Investment Strategist at Diapason Commodities Management, has kindly agreed to the reproduction of his briefing “Material Evidence” by the Cobden Centre….