In the UK, a furore has broken out over the failure of a company called Carillion. The focus of the … Continue reading “Let’s have less PFI – by reducing the scope of the state”

The resale of tickets has been around for as long as humans have charged entry to events. Evidence of ticket ‘touting’ … Continue reading “The Case for Ticket Resale”

In all the finger pointing that has followed the collapse of Carillion, in Parliament and the newspapers, it is hard … Continue reading “The interface of the private and the public sector: impressions from the front line”

Now we’ve finally learned what went wrong in Venezuela: it wasn’t real socialism. At the World Economic Forum summit in … Continue reading “Venezuela officially enters the not-REAL-socialism stage”

A new analysis of nearly 600 panellists on two key BBC programmes has found that Leave supporters have been badly … Continue reading “IEA analysis shows systemic bias against ‘Leave’ supporters on flagship BBC political programmes”

Commenting on Whitehall’s leaked Brexit analysis, Julian Jessop, Chief Economist and Head of the Brexit Unit at the Institute of … Continue reading “Leaked Brexit analysis fails to break new ground”

Commenting on the findings of PwC’s pay review at the BBC, Kate Andrews, News Editor at the Institute of Economic … Continue reading “BBC pay gap audit proves why ‘trial by media’ helps no one”

The psychologist professor Jordan Peterson is being heralded as one of the world’s most foremost public intellectuals. But his influence … Continue reading “The Newman/Peterson interview was symptomatic of the biases of public service broadcasters”

Hubris or incompetence, take your pick, but for one reason or another, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) and its sponsoring Department, … Continue reading “Heathrow: a solution to runway blunders”