| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.05.2025 | Renters work 125 days a year to pay their landlords | Renters in England are working 125 days each year – before tax – just to pay their rent, according to new research from the Adam Smith Institute (ASI).
This means that renters only start earning money for themselves on 6 May, which the ASI ... |
| 01.05.2025 | Britain is going to the polls, but what’s the point of metro mayors? | Voters will elect four new regional mayors today, but until we give them proper powers over tax, devolution will remain a fig-leaf for deeper structural problems, says Jamila Robertson
Today, voters head to polling stations to elect four re... |
| 30.04.2025 | Could Britain survive a blackout? | Blackouts across the Iberian Peninsula have exposed the fragility of our highly-connected infrastructure – and Britain is uniquely ill-equipped for a similar incident, says James Price
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, society comes crashing do... |
| 15.04.2025 | Small firm owners are leaving the UK en masse, survey finds | Small business owners up and down the country are packing their bags to escape a flurry of higher taxes, soaring costs and red tape, fresh data has found.
Nearly two in five owners of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) have either left the... |
| 09.04.2025 | The Tariff Tango: Navigating Trade in a Tumultuous Era | The world of trade is a dance, and right now, the music is discordant. Tariffs are the heavy feet stomping on the toes of free trade. The recent moves by the Trump administration have sent shockwaves through global markets. The stakes are h... |
| 08.04.2025 | Britain must not forget the lessons of Adam Smith | Adam Smith taught us that trade is not a zero-sum game 250 years ago. Trump may not have read his Wealth of Nations, but the rest of the world now must, says James Price
Much ink has been spilled over Trump’s tariffs in the past few weeks. ... |
| 05.04.2025 | Scrapping non-doms could cost UK up to £111bn by 2035, ASI think tank claims | Scrapping the non-doms tax status could cost the UK up to £111bn by 2035, the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) is warning.
The UK could also lose some 44,000 jobs by 2030 if the government enacts its plans to abolish the scheme, the free-market g... |
| 02.04.2025 | Aston Villa’s non-dom owner leaves UK for Italy | The billionaire co-owner of Aston Villa football club has become the latest wealthy foreigner to leave the UK in response to the government’s decision to abolish the non-dom regime.
According to registry filings, Nassef Sawiris, Egypt’s ric... |
| 26.03.2025 | Spring Statement 2025: OBR slashes growth forecast | The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has slashed its growth forecast in half to one per cent as Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was “not happy” about the revised figures.
Reeves has insisted that high growth is key to Labour’s missi... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Politics of Noise: How Podcasts and Promises Shape Our Understanding | In the cacophony of modern politics, clarity is a rare gem. The rise of podcasts has transformed political discourse into a circus of sound bites and bravado. Take, for instance, "The Rest Is Politics," hosted by Alastair Campbell... |
| 20.03.2025 | Radical honesty on net zero is Badenoch at her best | Kemi Badenoch has said that net zero by 2050 is impossible and she has the evidence to prove it. Now she needs to prove she has the energy to take on the reform Britain so badly needs, says James Price
At last, I have seen the Kemi Badenoch... |
| 19.03.2025 | More than half of Brits are ‘reliant on the state’, think tank says | More than half of the UK population are reliant on the state for income, a leading think tank has said.
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall on Tuesday announced a string of welfare reforms aimed at getting Brits back into the workforce.... |
| 14.03.2025 | Why it matters that The Rest Is Politics gets everything wrong | On issues from Trump to Syria, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s wildly popular podcast The Rest is Politics is actively making its millions of listeners less informed, says James Price
“I wasn’t fundamentally wrong because I was patroni... |
| 16.05.2024 | Memo to Sunak and Reeves: you can’t have security without prosperity | Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak want to frame the next election around the question of who will make you more secure, but both are missing the point, says James Price
It was Nadhim Zahawi, founder of YouGov and soon to be ex-MP, who told me t... |
| 17.04.2024 | The next Mayor must extend the Night Tube | The Night Tube only covers half of lines and doesn’t run on a Thursday – the busiest night for socialising in the City. Extending it would get London nightlife back on track, says Mimi Yates
If you’ve attempted a night out in the capital re... |
| 24.03.2024 | Met Police ‘Rich List’: Force spent £35m paying top cops on over £100,000 | The Metropolitan Police spent £35m last year paying top cops salaries of above £100,000, accounts reveal.
Over 290 top officers and staff were paid more than £100,000, with the highest pay of £313,366, including benefits and pensions, going... |
| 09.11.2021 | Keynesian Economics: A Depression-era idea that's seen a resurgence in the 21st century
What are the main principles of Keynesian economic theory?
The history of Keynesian economics | Keynesian economic theory is a macroeconomic theory that advocates for increased government spending and lower taxes to stimulate demand.
Keynesian economics was a response to the Great Depression and a critique of classical theory, which s... |
| 07.09.2021 | Boris Johnson has forgone Conservative party principles with his climate change tactics | Governments that set ambitious targets — with no intention or realistic plan to meet them — are fundamentally deceptive and intrinsically anti conservative. This is especially apparent when it comes to UK efforts to combat climate change.... |
| 04.09.2021 | National Insurance hikes for social care are a reverse Robin Hood picking the pockets of the young and poor | The Health Secretary Sajid Javid is pushing for a 1% to 2% rise in national insurance to fund social care and the NHS. The Cabinet are reportedly split on the size of the increase, but not on the idea itself. A manifesto-breaking tax rise o... |
| 16.07.2021 | Arcane taxes on junk food is all pain with almost no benefit | Some people are born lucky. They can eat junk food all day long without putting on any weight. Others develop rolls of fat after a few packets of crisps. The former can live blissfully without these concerns. The latter must struggle every ... |
| 11.05.2021 | Queen’s Speech: Planning reforms are badly needed but must also deliver for London’s hopeful homeowners | The Queen’s Speech will include the biggest overhaul of England’s planning system in seventy years. |
| 02.03.2021 | Budget 2021: Tax hikes are the same as austerity and will spell Rishi Sunak’s downfall | Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget marks the beginning of a damaging era of austerity that risks crushing Britain’s economic recovery. |
| 15.02.2021 | The Top Ranked Free-Market Think Tanks Today | “If it matters, measure it” is the motto of the Fraser Institute, one of the leading think tanks in the world. The Global Go To Think Tank Index Report ranks Fraser a “Center of Excellence” among non-U.S. North American think tanks, a statu... |
| 09.06.2020 | Is the government brave enough to let markets fix the social care crisis? | We have all seen, with the direst of consequences, the deficiencies of the current social care system. |
| 16.10.2019 | UK government scraps controversial plans for adult site age checks | The UK government's plans for age verification checks on porn site users, which were delayed in June of this year, have now been scrapped, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced today.
The checks would have required ... |
| 19.09.2018 | Report by Adam Smith Institute: Does Laboratory Meat Have Potential to Prevent Food Crisis? | Humanity is currently using natural resources 1.7 times faster than the planet’s ecosystems can regenerate, and has already used up all the resources naturally available this year. A new Adam Smith Institute report suggests that laboratory ... |
| 21.11.2016 | The U.K. Should Legalize Marijuana and Make $1.3 Billion a Year in Tax Revenue, Report Finds | Britain should follow the lead of several states in the U.S. and legalize marijuana, according to a report backed by several U.K. lawmakers.
The Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank, says the U.K. government should recognize that ... |
| 08.01.2016 | London must build on low quality green belt spaces to solve its housing crisis, according to the Adam Smith Institute | |
| 06.08.2015 | UK housing crisis: How deregulated “slums” can solve the shortage of homes and high prices for renters | |
| 31.05.2015 | Tax Freedom Day: The average Briton “works for 150 days a year” just to pay their taxes | |
| 10.11.2014 | 10.8m jobs set to be replaced by robots in the next 20 years but here’s where humans may have the edge | |
| 31.10.2014 | Wind power reassessed | Wind power reassessed
31-10-2014
The Scientific Alliance publishes a new report on the output of wind farms.
Energy security has quite rightly become a high-profile issue, with regular newspaper articles and letters to editors. Talk of powe... |
| 27.10.2014 | Ukip mapped: Nigel Farage is most popular in areas where immigration is lowest | |
| 23.01.2014 | Going Through the Big D: We’re Talking About Disruption | BY CHELSEA McCULLOUGH
Special contributor to Silicon Hills News |
| 07.08.2013 | Forward guidance falls short of a strictly rules-based monetary policy | |
| 13.01.2012 | High speed rail: new dawn or false hope? | High speed rail: new dawn or false hope?
13-01-2012
As the government gives the go-ahead for HS2 to link London to Birmingham and beyond, the Scientific Alliance considers whether or not it is a good investment.
The UK government has now gi... |
| 16.12.2011 | The limits to renewable energy | The limits to renewable energy
16-12-2011
The Scientific Alliance publishes a new report on the potential of renewable energy, jointly with the Adam Smith Institute
The limits to renewable energy
This week, the Scientific Alliance was very ... |
| 07.04.2009 | Solve the Philadelphia budget crisis online | Somebody please figure out this city’s budget shortfall so we can go back to prospering.
It can be Mayor Michael Nutter or city council or, Hell, maybe Larry West.
Maybe you can figure it out with a new, very cool online toy from the Econom... |
| 24.09.2007 | Dueling Think Tanks Debate Fate of Windows on European PCs | Last week's ruling by the European Court of First Instance (CFI) upholding the European Commission's 2004 finding against Microsoft and its subsequent Statement of Objections, may open the door for the EC to take unprecedented action. Commi... |
| - | Spring Budget 2023: “We’re a long way from Startup Britain” | Nobody wants to live in a country where the government in power cheers the forecast that we’re not entering a technical recession. But that’s where we are.
To be fair, compared to the previous Government’s “disastrous” mini-Budget, startups... |
