Contents Nanny State Index 2025 Summary Welcome to the sixth edition of the Nanny State Index, a league table of … Continue ...

“When we think of tax, the first one that comes to mind is probably the chunk that evaporates from our pay cheques… “Yet there are ways to radically change income tax without abolishing it. In a ...

Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written for the Spectator on the latest edition of the Nanny State Index. The article said: “Across Europe ...

Commenting on this today’s labour market statistics published by the ONS, Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “This morning’s labour market ...

The UK is now the 7th worst place in Europe to eat, drink, smoke and vape, up from 11th place in the 2023 edition of the Nanny State Index. Freedom in the UK has decreased at a faster rate than almost ...

Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial and domestic gas and electricity prices. The latest data for 2023 was ...

Britain is moving in a decidedly cashless direction. In the decade between 2012 and 2022, cash payments fell from 54 per cent to 14 per cent according to UK Finance. This isn’t happening because of ...

Platforms are institutions that solve the problems of delivering a good or service, of clearing payments, and of creating trust between buyer and seller. In the past two decades, the physical ...

The Fan Led Review of Football Governance calls for major changes in the way English football is run, with the government imposing an independent regulator (IREF). The government has indicated support ...

The UK has lost 21,000 pubs since 1980, with half of these closures taking place since 2006. In Closing Time, a new IEA report, I estimate that long-term cultural changes have been responsible for ...

The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the effect of lockdowns, also referred to as ‘Covid restrictions’, ‘social distancing measures’ etc., on COVID-19 mortality ...