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16 November 2018
Labour Market
Kate Andrew writes for City A.M.
Kate Andrews, Associate Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written an article for City A.M. on future entrepreneurial innovation. You might as well download the past 48 hours’ worth of news coverage, upload to the streaming site, and advertise it as how Breaking Bad would have unfolded if set in Westminster instead of ...
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16 November 2018
15 November 2018
Mark Littlewood is quoted by The Express Online
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has been quoted by The Express Online in an article on May's Brexit deal passing through parliament. Mark said; “The problem seems to me that there is not really a Parliamentary majority for any one proposal. So even if the cabinet does agree, I simply cannot see ...
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15 November 2018
13 November 2018
Lifestyle Economics
Christopher Snowdon appears on BBC Radio 5 Live
Christopher Snowdon has appeared on on BBC Radio 5 Live with Anna Foster, along with Kawther Hashem from Action on Sugar, to discuss proposed sanctions on milkshakes with an especially high sugar content. Chris said;"I think a lot of people don't realize how many calories are in drinks. I'm totally in favour of information, I ...
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13 November 2018
13 November 2018
Lifestyle Economics
Christopher Snowdon appears on BBC 2
Christopher Snowdon has appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire Show on BBC 2, along with Kawther Hashem from Action on Sugar, to discuss proposed sanctions on milkshakes with an especially high sugar content. Chris said; "In the Spring Public Health England are going to be publishing a whole range of guidelines which are not mandatory but ...
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13 November 2018
12 November 2018
Labour Market
Madeline Grant appears on Woman's Hour
Madeline Grant went on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio to talk about Equal Pay day with Jenni Murray the host and Catherine Mayer, one of the founders of the Women's Equality Party. In what was a very interesting discussion, Madeline argued among other things that to label the pay gap as 13.7% was misleading in ...
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12 November 2018
12 November 2018
Labour Market
The Institute of Economic Affairs is referenced in The Sun
The Institute of Economic Affairs has been referenced by The Sun in a discussion about Equal Pay Day. The IEA has argued that the Fawcett Society's gender pay gap reporting is misleading, as it does not compare like for like jobs. It points to ONS figures showing that the pay gap is 8.9 per cent ...
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12 November 2018
12 November 2018
Labour Market
Kate Andrews is quoted by the BBC
Kate Andrews, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, has been featured in an article by the BBC on gender pay day. Kate said that the gender pay gap as calculated by the ONS has got smaller and it was time Equal Pay Day was moved to a later date: "It was the 10th ...
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12 November 2018
9 November 2018
Energy and Environment
IEA innovation in agriculture report features in The Times
The IEA's report Effects of Innovation in Agriculture, written by David Hill and Viscount Matt Ridley, has been featured in The Times in an article covering the report's projection for driverless tractors in the future. Robot farmers will transform agriculture within ten years in the most dramatic change to rural working life since tractors replaced ...
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9 November 2018
9 November 2018
Lifestyle Economics
Christopher Snowdon features in The Mirror
Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the Institute for Economic Affairs, has featured in Caitlin Moran’s Celebrity Watch in the Times on the prospect of a tax on meat. Chris called it a nanny state idea, employing the same combination of junk science and dodgy economics that led to the sugar tax. Read the ...
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9 November 2018
9 November 2018
Labour Market
IEA briefing quoted in the Financial Times
The Financial Times have quoted Kate Andrews, Associate Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, from the IEA Gender Pay Gap briefing in an article about the equal pay day narrative. Kate said; “Despite the gender pay gap hitting a record low this year, Equal Pay Day hasn’t budged,” she said. “It is calculated in ...
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9 November 2018
