Economy

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  The failing quango state

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  Richard Norrie, April 2023 Dr Richard Norrie (Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas) reviews the role of ‘Arms Length Bodies’ in this latest Civitas publication. £223.9 billion was spent by so-called arm’s length bodies (ALBs) in 2020, which employed 318,714 people. As a percentage of total government expenditure, that is 21… Read Full Article
  
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  The Great Disconnect: Why too many small business owners feel let down

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  Tim Knox, March 2020 For the past two decades, politicians from across the political spectrum have been vocal in their praise of small business – often to great acclaim when producing initiatives in government. But, do we know what business owners themselves think of government? As Tim Knox explains in this study on how micro-businesses… Read Full Article
  
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  The Left Case for Brexit

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  Philip B. Whyman, September 2018 Two years on from the vote for Brexit, the process of withdrawal remains mired in debate about the kind of relationship an independent UK should be seeking with the European Union and the wider world. With the date for departure moving ever closer, there is a desperate need for a… Read Full Article
  
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  The Radical Progressive University Guide

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  Dr Richard Norrie, January 2023 The Radical Progressive University Guide sets out to quantify the extent of ‘radical progressive’ policies at British Universities, including their curbs on free speech. Dr Richard Norrie (director of the statistics and policy research programme) uses evidence from media reports and university websites to compile a new ‘radical progressive’ league… Read Full Article
  
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  The Road to Recovery: Reviving Manufacturing after Coronavirus

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  John Mills, July 2020 The global economy may well take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the coronavirus crisis than many initially expected – and hoped. With business closures and lockdowns forecast to throw the world into the deepest recession since the 1930s Great Depression, John Mills, the UK entrepreneur and… Read Full Article
  
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  Universal childcare

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  Maria Lyons, February 2024 All of the UK’s major political parties have recently declared their intentions to significantly expand state subsidies for childcare outside the home, including for babies from the age of nine months. It’s frequently said that universal “early childhood education” is a way to “give every child the best start in life”.… Read Full Article
  
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  Why can’t mums choose?

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  Frank Young, October 2022 British governments have been offering cash payments to families for almost 80 years. However, since the early nineties, childcare funding has been relentlessly focused on subsidising formal childcare to enable mothers to return to the workplace after childbirth. When we ask women with young children today whether this is what they… Read Full Article
  
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