This is the second in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are … Continue reading “Not Invented Here #2 – Alcohol”

This is the first in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are … Continue reading “Not Invented Here #1 – Obesity”

The electricity generator Drax is not an easy company to love. It doesn’t help that it shares a name with a James Bond … Continue reading “Biomass subsidies: how an environmental accounting trick benefits vested interests and the government”

During the Tory leadership campaign in the summer, Rishi Sunak repeatedly insisted that he would ‘get a grip on inflation’. … Continue reading “Big Government, Big Borrowing and Big Inflation are probably here to stay”

This week the IEA published a new study I wrote, looking at the extraordinary social experiment of lockdown and what … Continue reading “Lessons from lockdown for (anti-)alcohol policy”

When minimum unit pricing was introduced in Scotland in May 2018, it became illegal to sell alcohol for less than … Continue reading “An evaluation of Scotland’s minimum alcohol pricing experiment”

As a history of the British economy since 2008, The Decade the Rich Won (BBC2/iplayer) has a number of flaws. … Continue reading “Review: “The Decade the Rich Won””

YES – says Alexander Hammond It is unlikely that most Britons will be rampant classical liberals by 2030. Still, for … Continue reading “IEA Debate: Will the 2020s be a good decade for classical liberals?”

MPs will vote today on the Health and Care Bill. This legislation has much to commend it to Conservative MPs. … Continue reading “The Health and Care Bill: nanny statism on steroids”