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Welcome fall in dependency on the state

Official data released today by the Office of National Statistics shows that 52% of households are receiving more in benefits than they pay in taxes.

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Centre for Policy Studies bulletin, 20th June 2014.

Iain Martin: Welcome to CapX

Iain Martin writes on the launch of CapX, the digital news and commentary service from the Centre for Policy Studies.

WATCH: The Full Livestream of #Liberty2014

Raw, unedited footage from the livestream of the Main Hall at the Centre for Policy Studies Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty.

Daily Telegraph: In death, Margaret Thatcher still leads the world's conservatives

Daniel Hannan argues 'Only one name could have brought so many political and intellectual leaders together in one place. More than a year after her funeral, Margaret Thatcher remains the queen of global conservatism.' He will speak at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on Wednesday 18th June.

Daily Telegraph: John Howard - Margaret Thatcher was my 'guiding light'

Tim Stanley talks to the former Australian PM about conservatism, liberty, and what he learnt from Britain's first woman prime minister.

Daily Telegraph: The Thatcher conference on Liberty promises to be a landmark conservative event

Writing about the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty, Toby Young says 'This promises to be a landmark event'.

Daily Telegraph: Lord Saatchi - Cut corporation tax for small businesses

Peter Dominiczak discusses how Lord Saatchi, the chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think-tank, has called on the Government to offer major tax cuts to Britain’s small firms.

Daily Telegraph: Margaret Thatcher was a champion of freedom - exactly what Europe needs now

José María Aznar, Spanish prime minister from 1996 to 2004, argues tthat despite being branded as anti-Europeanist, Britain's former PM firmly believed in a Europe of nation-states based on cooperation and trade.

Daily Telegraph: Thatcher's descendants are in danger of losing the culture war

Toby Young argues that 'the state is entitled to insist that all schools teach children to respect the values that are part of our common culture, but it isn’t entitled to dictate every last detail of what’s taught in the classroom or to instruct schools about what teachers they can and can’t hire.' He will speak at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on Wednesday 18th June.

Who pays the piper – is state art the murderer of invention?

The Centre for Policy Studies is hosting a panel debate on state art versus liberty at the 2014 Margaret Thatcher Lecture on Liberty, to be held at the Guildhall on Wednesday 18 June 2014.

Who pays the piper – is state science the murderer of invention?

The Centre for Policy Studies is hosting a panel debate - "Who pays the piper – is state science the murderer of invention?".

Daily Telegraph: A radical policy to set small businesses free

Maurice Saatchi discusses the publishing of 'The Road from Serfdom', a policy paper to coincide with the CPS’s Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty and the think tank’s 40th anniversary on Wednesday 18th June. The paper proposes that corporation tax be abolished for small companies. And that capital gains tax be abolished for investors in small companies.

Daily Telegraph: Today's Tories have forgotten the need for hard thinking

John O'Sullivan, director of the Danube Institute in Budapest and a fellow of the National Review Institute, discusses the founding of the Centre for Policy Studies and its significance in political history. He will speak at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on Wednesday 18th June.

Daily Telegraph: Arthur Laffer - still ahead of the curve, the man with a simple tax plan

Szu Ping Chan discusses Professor Art Laffer's monumental contribution to supply side economics and his argument that high taxes stifle growth - a view which shaped US and UK monetarism policies under Reagan and Thatcher.