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Posts Tagged: The State

Christian Guy: It will be a disaster if May drops Cameron’s life chances plan

It would be wrong to assume you can simply sweep reducing poverty into a wider social mobility plan: they are not the same.

By Christian Guy | 13 January 2017 | 35 comments

Alex Morton: A message to the Prime Minister – we still need a smaller state.

What stands in the way of the homes, jobs and savings proclaimed on the masthead of this site is not a state that’s too liberal, but one that’s not liberal enough.

By Alex Morton | 19 October 2016 | 40 comments

Kieron O’Hara: Like the Tories, Labour must adjust its view of the state

If Theresa May’s Conservatives are easing their instinctive opposition, the Opposition must abandon its starry-eyed enthusiasm for the vast and the impersonal.

By Kieron O'Hara | 17 October 2016 | 9 comments

Daniel Hannan: May isn’t a Christian Democrat, she’s a proper conservative

Despite all the fuss, her ideas thus far mainly involve helping working people through smaller government.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 13 October 2016 | 16 comments

Phillip Booth: Why Paul Goodman is wrong about the market and the state

Far from solving our major social problems, government has played a leading role in exacerbating them.

By Philip Booth | 11 October 2016 | 44 comments

Simon Richards: May is right about Brexit – but dead wrong about extending state power

All Conservative Party members who believe that a smaller state is the best route to prosperity should speak out in defence of that principle.

By Simon Richards | 6 October 2016 | 75 comments

Harry Fairhead: Introducing our new Nanny State Rich List

The TPA identifies 325 taxpayer-funded public health employees. Combined with Public Health England’s budget of around £3.6 billion, this is an expensive and powerful lobby.

By Harry Fairhead | 4 August 2016 | 7 comments

Michael Orton: Tackling insecurity. Here’s a plan published from the Left but with solutions for the Right – and for everyone else

Our Five-plus ideas focus on good jobs, decent incomes, secure and affordable housing and the best start in life for all our children and grandchildren

By Michael Orton | 6 May 2016

Chris Wright: This isn’t austerity. It’s a correction. The sooner we embrace that, the sooner we can redesign better public services.

We should start by recognising that current public services are not quite fit for purpose, and that cuts afford us an opportunity.

By Chris Wright | 13 March 2016 | 39 comments

Philip Booth: It’s markets that make society stronger – not the state

A reply to part of Paul Goodman’s recent article on the New Tory Left.

By Philip Booth | 4 February 2016 | 14 comments

Steve Moore: Farewell, Steve Hilton. Hello, Christian Guy – and Cameron’s new social interventionism

Acting on Centre for Social Justice insights has become become central to the Prime Minister’s legacy aspirations.

By Steve Moore | 25 January 2016 | 6 comments

The State – not Big Brother, but Little Brother

A way of approaching the Investigatory Powers Bill, and much else, even before we know all the details.

By Paul Goodman | 5 November 2015 | 39 comments

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