Ryan Bourne - 14 May 2013 - Economy
HSBC’s Stephen King is rare for an economist. Not only is he able to write well (in a style that most graduates would be able to understand), but he is also an incredibly nice man. His book, ‘When the Money Runs Out’, due to be published this Saturday, is a ...
Ryan Bourne - 14 May 2013 - Politics
Over the past few years, Conservative MP Douglas Carswell has continually predicted a revolution in the way politics is undertaken given the rise of the internet. In a recent Spectator blog, he wrote: "Politics in the West, I speculate in my book on iDemocracy published last year, is going to ...
Vuk Vukovic - 25 April 2013 - Economy
This extended blog post was jointly authored by Ryan Bourne and Vuk Vokovic.Reinhart and Rogoff's (RR) highly-cited paper on how high levels of gross government debt (over 90% of GDP) are associated with much slower real GDP growth, which allegedly became the justification for austerity, has been brought under scrutiny ...
Belinda Brown - 24 April 2013 - Politics
Belinda Brown is a fellow at the Young Foundation and honorary research associate at University College London. Mrs Thatcher has often come under the spotlight for her relationship to feminism and other women. She has been described as “a man in skirts” who would not appoint another woman to cabinet, for ...
Tom Burkard - 22 April 2013 - Public Services
Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby. He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.We count ourselves among the staunchest of Michael Gove's supporters: after all, his ...
Jenny Nicholson - 19 April 2013 - Politics
CPS Deputy Director Jenny Nicholson writes about attending Lady Thatcher's funeral and her memories of meeting the former Prime Minister. An old friend reminded me of the first time I had met Lady Thatcher. We were working for a firm of publishers and to supplement our income we washed up at ...
Kathy Gyngell - 18 April 2013 - Prisons & Addiction
The drug consumption rooms that Brighton’s committed drug legalising Green MP, Caroline Lucas, proposes, risk inflating the very public health and social problems she claims they would mitigate, writes Kathy Gyngell. Brighton has an acute drug problem. But the much media-hyped ‘independent’ report laid before Brighton Council today offers no analysis ...
Ryan Bourne - 16 April 2013 - Economy
This article is an excerpt from our Growth Bulletin, authored by Ryan Bourne and Tim Knox. To read the full article, click here. To sign up for our mailings, use the form on the left of our newsletter page.With the sad death of Lady Thatcher, there has been much reflection on her personality, ...
Tim Knox - 09 April 2013 - Politics
CPS Director Tim Knox writes on the origin of arguably Lady Thatcher's most famous, and most mischaracterised, quote. Opinion pollsters know that they can never ask the question which they often most want to ask: “why do you say that?”Why? Because those five words can be interpreted in five subtly different ...
Kathy Gyngell - 08 April 2013 - History
CPS Research Fellow Kathy Gyngell writes on her relationship with Baroness Thatcher, getting to know her as a result of an invitation to Downing Street and after her exit from power. Unlike most people my interactions with her were mostly woman to woman and surprisingly intimate.I first met Britain’s Iron Lady, ...
Ryan Bourne - 02 April 2013 - Economy
If you want an insight into the psyche of many on the British left, then look no further than an article published in the last 24 hours.Exhibit A is Lynsey Hanley’s piece for the Guardian website. In the blog she attacks the Coalition’s policy of raising the personal allowance for ...
Michael Johnson - 29 March 2013 - Economy
Just when you thought it could not get any worse... it has. In 2011, the OBR started to forecast the cashflow shortfall between public service pensions’ contributions and pensions in payment. Six years ago this was an irrelevant £200 million, climbing to £8 billion last year. It has to ...
Ryan Bourne - 27 March 2013 - Economy
Matthew Hancock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for further education, skills and lifelong learning, this morning gave a speech to the Resolution Foundation on low pay. Entitled, ‘A Conservative Agenda for Tackling Low Pay’, the speech was largely based around the idea that there were three mechanisms at the Government’s ...
Katerina Nicholaou - 26 March 2013 - Public Services
Katerina Nicholaou, an intern with the Centre for Policy Studies and graduate of International Politics from the Univerisity of Surrey, writes on the findings of Tony Lodge's report 'Rail's Second Chance: Putting competition back on track'. “More competition, greater efficiency and a wider choice of services more closely tailored to ...
Ryan Bourne - 26 March 2013 - Economy
“So a 17 year old has made a fortune and has now become a member of the ‘super rich’, the top 1%, and the plutocrats who are getting richer whilst we’re all getting poorer. It’s ludicrous the amount of money he has been able to earn, far beyond what I ...
