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15 October 2019
Education
Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize winning essay features on CapX
The winning entry for the 2019 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize has been summarised by IEA Academic and Research Director Syed Kamall and featured on the CapX website. Under the proposed new policy, put forward by Peter Ainsworth and Dr Tom McKenzie, would see universities lending to students rather than the government, with both students and ...
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15 October 2019
15 October 2019
Government and Institutions
Mark Littlewood quoted in City A.M.
The Queen's Speech, set out yesterday in Parliament, had "too much emphasis on the role of the state, and not enough of the role of free markets”, says IEA Director General Mark Littlewood. Quoted in City A.M., Mark also criticised proposals for a new points-based immigration system which would allocate migrants additional points for moving ...
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15 October 2019
11 October 2019
City A.M. covers the 2019 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize awards
The Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize was awarded to a proposal for an individual nest-egg for lifelong learning, reports City A.M. Under the proposed new policy, put forward by Peter Ainsworth and Dr Tom McKenzie, students and universities “would gain from a liberalised risk-sharing pricing system that makes them partners – working together to improve graduates’ ...
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11 October 2019
11 October 2019
Society and Culture
Alexander C. R. Hammond writes for The Washington Times
US businesses are risking condoning human rights violations and censoring in China as "being brave has become less important to companies as access to China’s enormous market grows into an ever more irresistible prize to firms around the world", writes Alexander C. R. Hammond, Policy Adviser to the IEA Director General. Writing in The Washington Times, ...
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11 October 2019
11 October 2019
Lifestyle Economics
Kate Andrews writes for City A.M.
"To propose that sandwich-eating on a bus is an issue to be tackled, a problem to be solved, a danger to the children, is somewhere on the spectrum between hysterical and absurd" says Kate Andrews, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and yet that is one of several proposals in the latest report ...
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11 October 2019
11 October 2019
Society and Culture
IEA report covered by the Daily Express
The Daily Express has reported on a new IEA publication which proposes a new model for the future of the BBC, suggesting a switch to a subscriber-owned mutual. Professor Philip Booth, author of the report, said "Such an ownership model for the BBC would be fit-for-purpose in the modern broadcasting world, detach the BBC from ...
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11 October 2019
10 October 2019
Tax and Fiscal Policy
Mark Littlewood quoted by the FT Adviser
The rising cost of pension tax relief could be curtailed if the relief were scrapped, reports the FT Adviser. In his fortnightly column for The Times, IEA Director General Mark Littlewood said the relief wasn't justified and the money would be better spent on scrapping inheritance tax, as recently hinted at by the Chancellor at ...
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10 October 2019
10 October 2019
Government and Institutions
Mark Littlewood writes for The Detroit News
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written an op-ed for The Detroit News, explaining the current political situation with regards Brexit for a US audience and setting out his hopes for a strengthened US-UK relationship in future. Writing for the US daily newspaper, Mark argues that although the world may ...
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10 October 2019
10 October 2019
Lifestyle Economics
Christopher Snowdon writes in The Sun
Outgoing Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies has launched a report which recommends banning the people from eating food on public transport and end marketing and sale of junk food at major sporting venues. Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics, told The Sun he hoped the next Chief Medical Officer "focuses on serious public health ...
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10 October 2019
10 October 2019
Lifestyle Economics
Christopher Snowdon comments in the Daily Mail
The Chief Medical Officer has endorsed a report which seeks to ban food on public transport and put calorie caps on all meals sold in cafes and restaurants in a bid to tackle childhood obesity. Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, responded saying it should never be a crime ...
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10 October 2019
