Assaults on economic freedom come so thick and so fast it is difficult to keep up with them. Here are … Continue reading “Scrap the Low Pay Commission, not dishwashers”

On 30 September, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Taxpayers’ Alliance organised a balloon debate entitled Socialism: Future or … Continue reading “Socialism: future or failure?”

Commenting on Sajid Javid’s speech to Conservative Party Conference, the Institute of Economic Affairs’s Director General Mark Littlewood said: “The … Continue reading “IEA: Chancellor’s speech a “mixed bag” of economic policies”

Free-market liberals will have shuddered at the news that European Commission officials have drawn up far-reaching plans for a new … Continue reading “The problem with European champions”

Today the Institute of Economic Affairs republishes a paper outlining one option for a comprehensive framework for future trade relationships between … Continue reading “IEA report re-published: Plan A+: Creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK”

The opportunity before the UK as a result of Brexit is, this paper proposes, a great one: but if the … Continue reading “Plan A+: Creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK”

Commenting on Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to Labour Party Conference, the Institute of Economic Affairs’s Associate Director Kate Andrews said: “Jeremy … Continue reading “IEA: Labour leader’s patent overhaul “likely to worsen” NHS problems”

In December 2003 the Secretary of State for Health asked Ofcom to look into the regulation of television advertising of … Continue reading “Did industry unduly influence Ofcom’s decision on restricting TV advertising of unhealthy kids’ foods?”

John McDonnell’s speech to the Labour Party conference contained a large number of commitments, some old and some new. Those … Continue reading “Verdict on John McDonnell’s labour market policies: each measure is bad individually; the package is worse than the sum of the parts”