Responding to Matthew Taylor’s annual lecture to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), IEA Director-General Mark … Continue reading “IEA: Taylor speech to RSA highlights “badly misplaced” gripes with capitalism”

The Equal Pay Day campaign is has had huge success. Not in closing the gender pay gap, but in terrifying … Continue reading “The Equal Pay Day campaign is proving successful – in unnecessarily terrifying women”

The Labour Party has set out plans “to deliver fast and free full-fibre broadband for all by bringing parts of … Continue reading “Labour’s ‘free broadband’ would come at a heavy price”

A lot has been happening on the minimum wage front recently. This week the Living Wage Foundation published its new … Continue reading “The new Living Wage consensus is still problematic”

The last few years have witnessed ongoing controversy over proposals to abolish cash. The War on Cash is being promoted … Continue reading “We mustn’t lose the War on Cash”

The amount of UK foreign aid spent on nanny state interventions has skyrocketed, according to a new report from the … Continue reading “£44.6 million of UK foreign aid budget used to export the nanny state overseas, finds new IEA report”

This study calculates how much UK foreign aid was spent (in 2018 prices) on lifestyle interventions targeting smoking, drinking, eating … Continue reading “Nanny State on Tour”

Responding to the Fawcett Society’s Equal Pay Day campaign (14 November 2019), Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs Kate … Continue reading “IEA: Equal Pay Day campaign is “plainly inaccurate” and “promotes misleading narrative””

Commenting on the Labour party’s pledge to invest £26 billion more in real terms to the National Health Service, Director … Continue reading “IEA: Hiking taxes to fund the NHS “won’t sustain the institution””