Blogs by Lewis Brown

18 February 2013 -

In his Times article this morning calling for Conservatives to support a Mansion Tax, Tim Montgomerie cited Savills Research data that shows the top 10 London Borough's now equals that of the entire non-English United Kingdom;"The value of properties in London’s ten top boroughs now equals the entire property stocks of Wales, Scotland ...

31 January 2013 - Economy

Earlier this week, our friends at the Taxpayers’ Alliance revealed that the Coalition has been responsible for a net 180 tax rises since it came to power.This breaks down to:299 separate tax rises already implemented or planned before May 2015.

• Of this, 254 separate tax rises have already been implemented since ...
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29 January 2013 - Constitution & Democracy

Writing for the LibDemVoice website, Lewis Brown examines why the LibDems should welcome Andrew Tyrie and Anthony Peto's report 'Neither Just nor Secure'. In September 2012, the Liberal Democrat Conference voted overwhelmingly against the most contentious aspect of the government’s Justice and Security Bill - the extension of ‘secret courts’, otherwise ...

02 January 2013 - 2013 Policy Resolutions

With the new year here, six authors connected with the CPS outline a policy resolution they would like to see adopted by the government in 2013. In the final instalment, CPS social media manager Lewis Brown looks at why the most repugnant social media controversies are in many ways the ...

14 December 2012 - Economy

One of France’s most recognisable actors, Gérard Depardieu, has left his mother country for new dwellings. No, he’s not off to marry Andie McDowell to get an American Green Card, this is real life and the Cyrano de Bergerac actor has moved to a Belgian town 800 metres from the ...

14 September 2012 - Economy

Alongside the news of QE3 in America, there is a less-reported form of economic stimulus taking place in Sweden. Often venerated by the left as a model of a redistributive model along with the other ‘Nordic states’, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced the country will slash corporation tax ...

15 August 2012 - Economy

Digital Communications Manager Lewis Brown on the calls for 'tax justice' over celebrities and companies who dare to shop around for a lower rate. In the last few days, Usain Bolt has become the latest in a long line of celebrities to criticise the UK’s punitive high taxation. Bolt has confirmed ...

20 July 2012 -

Lewis Brown, Digital Commuications Manager at the Centre for Policy Studies, blogs on how the PCS union will escape the wrath felt by g4s in their Olympic debacle. Like Francis Maude, every day on the way to work I pass through Clapham Junction. And, like Francis Maude, every day I silently ...

13 July 2012 - Social Policy

The Phoenix Free School application – an Oldham-based free school that would have been staffed entirely by teachers drawn from the armed forces – has today been rejected by the Department of Education. The School found its genesis last year in a Centre for Policy Studies report ‘Something Can Be ...

06 July 2012 - History

Lewis Brown, Digital Communications Manager at the CPS, writes on Professor Niall Ferguson's response to a tricky question about the involvement of economist Milton Friedman in General Pinochet's Chile at the 'Friedman at 100' event held this week. Tuesday night (July 3^rd) the CPS hosted a very successful panel event celebrating ...

09 June 2012 - History

On this day, June 9^th, in 1983, Margaret Thatcher led the Conservative Party to a landslide victory in the General Election, securing 397 of the 650 seats up for grabs.It was a remarkable achievement for the UK’s first female Prime Minister who had been predicted to be a one-term PM ...

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, ...