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James Price: More borrowing and higher taxes are not the only – or even the best – way to free up more money for the NHS.

But some of the reforms listed above would improve the quality of healthcare, save money and set the service on a more long-term footing.

By James Price | 18 June 2018 | 36 comments

Rory Geoghegan: Short-term prison sentences do nothing for prolific offenders. We must get serious about tackling the causes of crime.

Our latest Centre for Social Justice report – Desperate for a Fix – focuses on prolific drug-addicted people and proposes a new Second Chance Programme.

By Rory Geoghegan | 6 June 2018 | 19 comments

Blair Gibbs: Legalising cannabis for medical reasons doesn’t have to lead to recreational use

After, say, five years, we will have ample evidence of the social and economic effects. Enough to give legislators the confidence to go the next step – or not.

By Blair Gibbs | 28 May 2018 | 23 comments

Kevin Davis: To defeat crime, we must strengthen the family

The terrible state of council housing across London undermines community spirit and encourages drug dealing and gang violence. The Mayor is failing to show any leadership.

By Kevin Davis | 20 April 2018 | 32 comments

Alex Morton: Conservatives and Liberals share a new opponent – Progressive Authoritarians

But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.

By Alex Morton | 18 April 2018 | 45 comments

Matt Kilcoyne: To reduce gang violence, support the police, and boost the economy, legalise drugs

The party that grasps the nettle and frees up the market will reap the political dividend, just as the Liberals did in Canada. Prohibition has failed.

By Matt Kilcoyne | 12 April 2018 | 83 comments

Oliver Freeston: Labour councils always blame “the cuts” to dodge focus on their management failings

In North East Lincolnshire we see lots of complicated and unnecessary strategies being adopted – while there is a failure to get the basics right.

By Oliver Freeston | 9 March 2018 | 16 comments

Chloe Schendel-Wilson: Cannabis prohibition has failed on all fronts – the UK should follow Canada’s pragmatic example instead

Conservative values are not well-served by leaving a market to criminals. Changing technology and drug strength mean this approach is becoming ever more harmful.

By Chloe Schendel-Wilson | 28 February 2018 | 106 comments

How Trump won with America’s losers

David Frum expresses the dismay of an upright North American conservative at the triumph of Trump.

By Andrew Gimson | 24 February 2018 | 157 comments

Albie Amankona: We need a real National Health Service – to make healthy living easy and unhealthy living difficult.

There needs to be a paradigm shift in policy and culture. Our state should work to keep us healthy and allow us as individuals to be responsible for our actions.

By Albie Amankona | 21 February 2018 | 22 comments

Interview: Kemi Badenoch – “I’m not really left-leaning on anything…I always lean right instinctively”

She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”

By Andrew Gimson | 21 December 2017 | 9 comments

Steve Moore: Why we should create a legal market for cannabis

A new report published by drug policy think tank Volteface sets out how the current policy has given rise to a multi-billion pound black market for an exceptionally problematic product.

By Steve Moore | 20 October 2017 | 164 comments

The Radicrats or the Demicals – or how to create a Two Nations Party

The simultaneous creation and collapse of a new force has been written off an establishment failure. The truth is more interesting.

By Paul Goodman | 20 October 2017 | 56 comments

Judy Terry: Defeating the drug gangs in Ipswich

Councils, schools, and the police need to work together.

By Judy Terry | 18 September 2017 | 7 comments

Alex Morton: Identity politics is wrong – and bad for Tories, too. So if May is staking a revival on it, her difficulties will deepen.

The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.

By Alex Morton | 6 September 2017 | 46 comments

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