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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 ...

What is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Let’s start with the basics. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK … Continue reading "Raising Our Allowance – Understanding Britain’s Emissions Trading ...

The Spring Statement was more-or-less as expected. A worsening economic outlook meant that the Chancellor’s headroom against her primary fiscal rule – a current budget surplus in five years’ time – ...

New foreword to the 2025 edition I stumbled across a copy of Professor Alan Evans’s book No Room! No Room! in one of the IEA’s archives a few years ago when I was looking for something completely ...

Summary Given the high economic costs of fraud, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 aims to address the well-known deficiencies of the common law’s approach to corporate criminal ...

Introduction Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial … Continue reading "We’re number one… in unaffordable ...

Contents Summary Until very recently, Britain’s National Health Service used to be beyond argument. The reverence for the health service … Continue reading "The Denationalisation of Healthcare" ...

In times of economic adversity, wealth taxes on the richest are often proffered as a solution. Last week, Labour’s largest … Continue reading "The wealthy aren’t all that bad" ...

New IEA research highlights the clear economic consensus that rent controls do far more harm than good.

Contents Summary The general election campaign has focused on tax and spending promises, with much less attention paid to proposed … Continue reading "Shadow Expenses: Uncosted Regulatory Burdens in ...

Private schools are, on the whole, a good thing. They give parents greater choice in their children’s education, provide the state sector much needed competition and attract money from abroad by ...