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Flying to Scotland from Southampton on a fine day recently, my eye soon picked up the brown streak across southern central counties that is the route of HS2. Earth works are almost complete, and much ...

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The Government’s own impact assessment for its employment rights legislation estimates that the measures could cost businesses up to £5 billion annually. To start, this is a substantial amount. Past ...

UK industrial electricity prices at 25.85p/kWh are the highest of the 28 countries covered by the IEA report. UK prices are some four times those in the US, 2.6 times those of Korea and 46% higher ...

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The 2021 Dorian Fisher Memorial Prize Results The IEA is delighted to announce the results of the 2021 Dorian Fisher Memorial Prize.The first prize of £500 went to Marcella Impelliziere Licastro from ...

I think Richard nailed it. Education is a merit good and all decisions are made at the margin. People will opt out of or not opt into private schools will be those that can least afford it those ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire and ...

“This is a deeply cynical cash grab from the Chancellor. Forget sin taxes, this is a saint tax. Vapers did what the government wanted and gave up smoking. They are now being punished for it. “This is ...

You don’t understand why many people voted Leave, then (or how the EU works, but that’s for another time). It was not so much to get the EU off our backs as to expose where regulation really comes ...