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Recent Blogs
Trumpian Economics
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — assesses the new President’s economic approach, contending that Trump ‘does not just embody a rupture with policy orthodoxy, he also represents a rupture with standard conservative economic analysis’
Britain Flies into the Danger Zone: But the Risks of Getting Involved in Asia Are Worth It
Ahead of Policy Exchange’s ‘End of the Asian Century?’ event on 19 January, Michael Auslin explains why sending HMS Queen Elizabeth into Pacific waters on its maiden voyage in 2021 will be symbolic of the UK’s continuing global role
The Folly of Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon
If ever there was a textbook example of how to go about Government lobbying and project development, then it is the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The developer, Tidal Lagoon Power, has done a frankly incredible job of promoting the project to policymakers and...
Official Advice, Bored Ministers, and Europe’s Roadblock
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Head of Research and Economic and Social Policy — reflects on the debate that Sir Ivan Rogers’ resignation has stimulated about the role of senior civil servants and their relationships with ministers
Why Government Plans to Revive the Garden City Tradition Are Welcome
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research and Economics and Social Policy — discusses how the Government’s proposal picks up on thinking that Policy Exchange has long encouraged
A Billion Bees A-Buzzing: Mandeville and Christmas
Rebecca Lowe Coulson, Policy Exchange’s State and Society Research Fellow considers the economic value of Christmas, with recourse to Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees
What the JCHR Gets Wrong about Fundamental Rights
Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power project, Richard Ekins — along with Gunnar Beck, John Finnis, Christopher Forsyth, Graham Gee, and John Tasioulas — responds to the Joint Committee on Human Rights report, ‘The Human Rights Implications of Brexit’
It is High Time for a Fundamental Discussion on British Grand Strategy
Gabriel Elefteriu — Policy Exchange’s Britain in the World Research Fellow — and Professor John Bew — Head of the Britain in the World project — consider the Government’s first annual report on the 2015 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR), concluding that, ‘ultimately, being “global” is not simply about being “open”, but also being “strategic”, self-confident, and bold’
Economics is a Serious Subject
Warwick Lightfoot — Policy Exchange’s Director of Research, and Head of Economics and Social Policy — reflects on Policy Exchange’s successful Keynes conference, and other recent and upcoming initiatives exploring the ‘big questions in economics’
Britain’s Services Trade Can Flourish Outside of the EU’s Single Market
Geoff Raby — Policy Exchange’s Head of Trade Policy — and Andrew Stoler contend that ‘the reality is that the UK has many realistic options outside the Single Market, and both the UK and EU have much to gain from negotiating a sensible agreement on services’
