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Knowledge is power – how to give students better life chances & choices
This week’s Government announcement of a multi-million-pound boost for apprenticeships is just the latest attempt to improve young people’s life chances with a smoother transition from school into education, work and training. It’s a well-intentioned move, in spite of tart-but-accurate…
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A UK Sovereign Wealth Fund Would Be A Strategic Anchor Investor
How a Sovereign Wealth Fund could help British startups stay & grow into world-leading firms based in UK, rather than being acquired by foreign buyers so jobs, wealth and supply-chains are all created abroad.
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Why Britain Needs A Sovereign Wealth Fund
John was interviewed by think tank Onward! about why the UK needs a Sovereign Wealth Fund
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A UK Sovereign Wealth Fund
Making Britain The Biggest & Fairest Asset-Owning Democracy In The World We Brits are good at inventing things, but when it comes to growing brilliantly creative entrepreneurial firms into big world-leading companies we fall short. Our startups are snapped up…
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John’s interview for the Popular Conservatives podcast
The Popular Conservatives are a new & fast-growing part of UK centre-right politics who, like us at the Centre for Small-State Conservatives, favour a smaller & more efficient state. So when they invited John to appear on their ‘PopConversation’ podcast,…
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Wanted: Ideas For Economic Growth
When the Office for Budget Responsibility had finished grovelling and prostrating itself for leaking the entire Budget in advance, it made a genuinely eye-popping admission about what was actually in it. They said that, after they’d downgraded their growth forecasts…
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Why Haven’t We Abolished Poverty Forever?
This article originally appeared in Centre Write, the online journal of Bright Blue where John is an Associate Fellow. In the last 40 years, the spread of capitalism to Asian ‘tiger’ economies and then India and China has meant that…
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How Wes Streeting Could Fix The NHS
Wes Streeting wants you know that he really, definitely isn’t plotting against Keir Starmer. Honest. In fairness, with NHS productivity flatlining since the pandemic, resident (formerly known as ‘junior’) doctors striking again after getting more than 20% extra pay last year and…
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Why Britain Needs A Taxpayer Protection Act
Most UK families, business leaders and investors will spend the next month trying to ignore the ever-darkening economic clouds that are gathering in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ autumn Budget. Her problems have been mounting for months. First her…
