Last month, the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile, tweeted about a CPS publication from 1990 which was far ahead of its time: NIMBYism – The Disease...
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The Analyst
Shutting out low-skilled migrants might be popular, but that doesn’t make it a good policy
The government has released a policy statement outlining, in broad strokes, what its new points-based immigration system, due to come into effect next year, is going to...
The Economist
Here’s how to have a popular, liberal immigration system after Brexit
Around the time the US Congress debated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), opinion surveys on the subject showed an intriguing divide. When voters were...
Political Insider
John McDonnell’s claim of a ‘wrong turn’ in Venezuela is nonsense
Venezuela is “experiencing problems”, because the country has taken a “wrong turn”, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell remarked over the weekend. That is a bit of an...
Political Insider
Marx’s defenders should explain why his ideas never actually work
This week will mark the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. It will be an occasion for a deluge of articles repeating the well-worn cliché that even though Marx’s predictions ultimately...
The Analyst
You can’t argue against socialism’s 100 per cent record of failure
Socialism is extremely in vogue. Opinion pieces which tell us to stop obsessing over socialism’s past failures, and start to get excited about its future potential, have almost...