MiFID II, together with MiFIR (Regulation (EU) No 600/2014), was intended to create a more transparent, competitive and integrated financial … Continue reading “Not everyone’s cup of tea…”

Public service broadcasting should be removed from the public policy lexicon and the BBC should be privatised – though not … Continue reading “Why there should be no such thing as “public service broadcasting””

Commenting on a Public Accounts Committee report, which finds that apprenticeship reforms are failing to deliver, the IEA’s Editorial and … Continue reading “Government should scrap apprenticeship levy, focus on improving education”

I recently ventured to Athens for this year’s Atlas European Liberty Forum conference, which brings together free market groups, not … Continue reading “Tried-and-failed plan to nationalise energy in the UK is a step backwards”

The media have been excited by two American management academics, Leah Sheppard and Stefanie Johnson, who claim to find that highly … Continue reading “The economics of beauty: What do we know? What should we do?”

Commenting on the Labour Party’s energy nationalisation proposal, Associate Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs Kate Andrews said: “Nationalising … Continue reading “Nationalising the UKs’s energy grid would be a step back into the dark ages, says IEA”

For politicians, there is something attractively simple about spending targets. Rather than argue the nuances of why the Government of … Continue reading “The case against spending targets”

Competition and markets should be introduced into the UK’s health and social care systems to find the best ways of … Continue reading “Market forces are the best way to successfully integrate health and social care, says new IEA report”

Summary: Medical and nursing care have been separated from social care by deliberate design since the creation of the NHS. … Continue reading “Integrating Health and Social Care”