Blogs by Lewis Brown

27 March 2012 - Constitution & Democracy

With the latest party funding scandals having been predicted by Sir Christopher Kelly just a few months ago, many are calling for Kelly’s report with the Committee for Public Standards to be implemented in full, including a £10k cap on individual donations and state funding to the tune of £3 ...

12 March 2012 - Foreign Policy

Web 2.0 Manager Lewis Brown looks at the increasing irrelevance of post-Second World War supranational bodies and wonders whether both old alliances and new organisations could supersede them. Happy Commonwealth Day everybody! Okay so it’s not one of those widely celebrated joyous occasions like, say, Europe Day where public servants across ...

24 December 2011 - 2012 Policy Resolutions

We hope you are enjoying our holiday series ‘UK Policy Resolutions for 2012’. So far, five of our best authors have set out their own personal visions for the country in the coming year:

• Lord Flight on staying ahead of the curve on deficit reduction
• Tim Morgan on managing a longer period ...
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21 December 2011 - 2012 Policy Resolutions

Lewis James Brown, Web 2.0 Manager gives an overview of the new 'UK Policy Resolutions for 2012' series from the Centre for Policy Studies, to run from December 21st-31st. Today the CPS launches its UK Policy Resolutions for 2012 series in which 15 of our board members, Research Fellows and authors, ...

07 December 2011 - Politics

Ed Miliband’s attack on David Cameron’s stance over Europe rocked the PM from the off today. While Conservatives often adopt the line ‘I won’t be lectured by the Labour Party’ over Europe (and for the most part, this obviously chimes), there was definite hay to be made for the Labour ...

06 December 2011 - Politics

Part of the fun of American primaries and elections for the politically aware on this side of the pond is engaging as if it were a spectator sport. We like to make predictions, think about who our vote would go to, and rate the candidates on our own sort of ...

05 December 2011 -

Okay I have something embarrassing to confess, something of such grave proportions I may never recover any credibility whatsoever…. I went to a Hanson gig.It was last Tuesday and the venue was the IndigO2, part of the O2 complex (formerly known as the Millennium Dome). I had been to the ...

30 November 2011 - Economy

Lewis James Brown argues that even modest public sector reform can never be popular and sets out why the deeper reform proposals from Michael Johnson and the Centre for Policy Studies will ultimately be necessary. It should come as no surprise that the think tank of Margaret Thatcher would take a ...

23 November 2011 - Culture

In the first of an occasional series on popular culture experiences, Web 2.0 Manager Lewis James Brown blogs on attending William Fitzsimmons in the atmospheric church venue Union Chapel.Last Thursday I was fortunate enough to see one of my favourite American singer-songwriters William Fitzsimmons perform an intimate and atmospheric set ...

17 November 2011 - Sport

So we are here again. Blatter out. Blatter has to go. For anyone interested in the governance of the world’s most popular sport, it is a common moment. That this man has survived scandal after scandal demonstrates that he has a hold over his organisation that Saddam or Muammar could ...

16 November 2011 - Europe

This week at the CPS we launched the first of our new debate series ‘Do critics of Conservative Euro-sceptics have anything to apologise for?’. Following on from Peter Oborne’s Guilty Men book, the debate between Oborne and Times journalist David Aaronovitch centres around the prescience of those who did not ...

31 October 2011 - Foreign Policy

Key Republican Dates 2012January 3^rd 2012 – Iowa CaucusJanuary 10^th 2012 – New Hampshire PrimaryJanuary 21^st 2012 – South Carolina PrimaryJanuary 30^th 2012 – Florida PrimaryMarch 6^th 2012 – Super Tuesday (11 Primaries including Texas [Perry,/Paul], Alaska, Massachusetts [Romney], Georgia [Cain/Gingrich])June 26^th 2012 – Final primary, UtahAugust 27^th 2012 – ...

25 October 2011 - Constitution & Democracy

Lewis James Brown (@LewisCPS), Web 2.0 Manager of the Centre for Policy Studies, blogs on the impact of yesterday's vote, and the perception it creates, on the electorate.Today we cross-posted an excellent article from Professor Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart on 10 points of note from yesterday’s ‘rebellion’ of Conservative MPs over ...

17 October 2011 - Economy

Lewis James Brown, Web 2.0 Manager at the CPS, considers the Occupy protests in London and concludes that supporters of smaller government have failed to build on the pre-election calls of writers like Fraser Nelson and Janet Daley to convince the electorate of the moral case ...

02 October 2011 - General

The Centre for Policy Studies is in Manchester this week for the Conservative Party Conference. CPS Web Manager Lewis James Brown takes a look at our exciting events on Monday and Tuesday.This weekend thousands of Conservative Party members, think tankers, charities, journalists and activists are pouring into the beautiful city ...