Ryan Shorthouse: The early years development gap. Is it time to make pre-school education compulsory?
Aspects of infant development have been detrimentally affected by Covid, including rates of obesity, physical inactivity, and poor sleep.
Ryan Shorthouse: No, family values are not in decline
The marriage rate is down. But people are being choosy, looking for love rather than doing it out of economic necessity. So, marriages now last longer.
Ryan Shorthouse: Next steps for the Chancellor in helping to support the self-employed
By adapting the Statutory Maternity Pay system, the Chancellor’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will improve the lives of thousands of people.
Ryan Shorthouse: What Johnson should do now to help workers and families
The fifth piece in our series this week about what the Tory Manifesto should look like.
Ryan Shorthouse: Brexit is seeing struggle enough. Communitarians and libertarians don’t have to be in conflict.
Interdependence and independence need each other, and the Conservative Party should stand for both.
Ryan Shorthouse: How to boost integration
What is it – and how can we strengthen it? That is the focus of Bright Blue’s latest report, published today.
Ryan Shorthouse: How to add contributions and incentives to the benefits system
Working-aged benefits have been deeply and disproportionately cut. But if the welfare system is to be suitably resourced in the future, the public need to believe it is fair.
Ryan Shorthouse: Conservatives should champion human rights, at home and abroad
Faced with the real electoral threat of a nationalising, socialistic Labour Government, these principles should matter and be championed now more than ever.
Ryan Shorthouse: Localism is not illiberal
We need liberal – not closed – local communities where empowered, innovative and tolerant individuals can bring positive change.
Ryan Shorthouse: Universities have enjoyed a leap in funding – vice-chancellors must act responsibly in return
It is wrong for those at the top to take advantage of the generosity of government, students, and other, far less well-remunerated, academic staff.
Ryan Shorthouse: The Tory manifesto should offer loans for childcare and retraining, and better pay for teachers
This second piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that May must show those on modest incomes the good that Government can do.
Ryan Shorthouse: Balancing the budget. Make private schools pay VAT. End ring-fencing. Charge for missed GP appointments.
The second piece in our pre-Budget series on how to eliminate the structural deficit.
Ryan Shorthouse: Don’t bend to this anti-establishment rage. Challenge and confront it.
Indiscriminate attacks on Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, the media and business are anti-meritocratic and nihilistic, which should trouble those on the Right.
Ryan Shorthouse and James Dobson: Reversing the decline in part-time higher education
The Government should give every citizen a lifetime higher education loan account, and exact a levy from major graduate employers to pay for it.
Ryan Shorthouse: How to form a future without poverty
Better pre-school education, more help in need for those who have contributed more, a higher minimum wage, support for grandparents – all fit Conservative ideals.