All hail the Mayor of San Diego! Earlier this week, Californian lawmaker Kevin Faulconer outlined an ambitious overhaul of the city’s … Continue reading “All hail the Mayor of San Diego!”

The ‘EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health’ launches its dietary prescription for the world’s 7.6 billion people in Oslo this … Continue reading “IEA responds to the EAT-Lancet report”

We are living in a new era of ‘Nudge’. Over the past decade, a growing number of academics and policymakers … Continue reading “Debate: Nudge economics – can paternalism ever be libertarian?”

In 1958, the British couple Alec and Moira Dickinson founded the charity Volunteer Service Overseas. Armed with the lofty vision … Continue reading “In defence of ‘voluntourism’”

Summary:  Opinion surveys consistently show that the British public is overwhelmingly hostile to immigration. This widespread hostility actively shapes our … Continue reading “Immigration: Picking the low-hanging fruits”

The UK’s approach to immigration policy is economically damaging, too restrictive when it comes to high-skilled workers and does not … Continue reading “UK should scrap net migration target & introduce two-lane immigration system post-Brexit, says new report”

Revelling in things that are non-quantifiably, hard-to-explain, valuable for their own sake is one of the great features of being human. For … Continue reading “The case for Space”

The housing crisis is Britain’s most urgent economic and social problem. This is not exactly news, but until serious steps … Continue reading “Increasing the supply of housing requires less government intervention – not more”

Opponents of drugs reform often trot out the line that the UK gave up fighting the war on drugs some … Continue reading “Drugs: The war we choose to fight”