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Ruth Porter is Communications Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs Growing up in the north of England shaped me in many ways, small and large – but perhaps the most significant was the fierce appreciation it gave me for the dirt and mess of large cities. The sense of history, of chaos and disorder, in […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The fact that the government will almost certainly miss its child poverty targets was the cheery news from Alan Milburn this week. What has been missed in the discussion though is that the current measures of poverty are so absurd as to be almost irrelevant. […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. It is not unusual for the BBC to misrepresent things but Monday’s headline – “David Cameron vows to boost infrastructure projects” – was more misleading than most. His article on Monday was not about government investment but rather applauding the private sector – and so […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The latest strike threats, this time from the teachers’ unions, add a certain poignancy to the economic rebalancing that's taking place in Britain at the moment. If anyone is going to be mindful of generational justice, one would expect it to be teachers – […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The idea that one should have had a career – be older, wiser and highly experienced – before going into Parliament is hardly a novel one. MPs and voters alike opine about this as if it were fact. Health minister Anne Milton recently put […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Watching coverage at the weekend of Ed Miliband’s speech and the associated march, one could be forgiven for thinking the Government’s cuts programme was as unpopular as the Iraq war. In fact the latest ICM poll has 57% supporting the Coalition on the idea […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs. During the Big Society discussions, the sight of some Conservatives running scared from the idea that the best way of responding to problems is a messy patchwork of responses has been deeply unsettling. Somewhere along the way we seem to have developed a preoccupation […]
Cllr Sir Merrick Cockell, Kathy Gyngell, Andrew Lilico, Christopher Pincher MP, Simon Richards and others respond to Osborne’s statement.