“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 ...

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

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 ...

Responding to the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates to 4.25%, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The Monetary Policy ...

What is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Let’s start with the basics. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) is designed to encourage a reduction in C02 produced by both large industry and ...

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 ...

Property rights are a critical factor in shaping the economic development and prosperity of any nation, but as Albania attempts to pivot into the tourism sector, it has become an even more pressing ...

Recent long-running and disruptive strike action has revived interest in a trade union movement which has been in long-term decline. Economists have always been in two minds about unions, seeing them ...

A BBC Report finds that, forty years after the Miners’ Strike, former coal-mining areas remain economically depressed. The Beeb’s survey suggests that 73% of people living in mining towns and villages ...

Since 2005, four British power plants have been converted from coal to biomass as part of the transition to a low-carbon electricity grid. They now burn the equivalent of 27 million trees in wood ...