Contents Summary Until very recently, Britain’s National Health Service used to be beyond argument. The reverence for the ...

Kristian Niemietz argues that European Social Health Insurance systems consistently outperform the NHS in health outcomes & waiting times.

As the new UK government embraces mission-driven government, Harrison Griffiths exposes the hidden costs of such top-down economic planning.

Reforming the National Health Service into a social health insurance (SHI) system could boost UK health outcomes to European levels. There has been a huge shift in public opinion, with Britons now ...

For at least two reasons, The New Right Enlightenment. Young Writers on “The Spectre Haunting the Left” (1985) is an unfortunate book title. The first reason has to do with timing. According to Google ...

Commenting on new data which show that the rate of inflation remained at 2.2% in August, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The ...

Responding to the Bank of England’s decision to hold interest rates at 5%, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The Bank of ...

In this episode of the IEA Podcast, host Reem Ibrahim is joined by Tom Clougherty, Executive Director, and Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director, to discuss pressing issues in UK policy. The ...

IEA Public Policy Fellow, Matthew Lesh, was quoted in Money Week on the Renters’ Reform Bill. The article said: “Section 21 of the Housing Act has allowed landlords to break contracts without good ...

The story of the British economy since 2008 has been one of near-stagnation. For a number of reasons, GDP growth in recent years has been nowhere near as strong as it could have been. But there are a ...