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Britain’s Benefits System Is Unfair To All Involved
The Government’s screeching u-turn on reforming Personal Independence Payments has distracted attention from a more fundamental problem with Britain’s broken benefits system. Regardless of whether the right people are getting the right kinds of benefits or not, too few of…
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Britain Needs A ‘Top 5 In 5’ Industrial Strategy, Not Bets On New Tech
This article is the first in a fortnightly series of policy proposals from John Penrose and the Centre for Small State Conservatives. Nobel-Prize-Winning economist Paul Krugman famously said “productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything.” His words should send…
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How To Solve Britain’s Red Tape Crisis
Labour’s bonfire of the quangos is barely smouldering so far. The run-up to last month’s ‘Spring-Statement-that-honestly-wasn’t-an-Emergency-Budget’ included a big anti-red tape fanfare, with lots of worthy rhetoric about tackling bureaucratic complexity and regulatory risk-aversion. But it always starts this way,…
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The Case For A UK Sovereign Wealth Fund
The age of austerity is nearly over. After eight long years, we aren’t having to borrow to pay for day-to-day spending on essentials like health, education, policing or defence. It’s all funded by our taxes, at last. We’re paying our…
