The Board of Trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is delighted to announce that Daniel Hannan, Lord Hannan … ...

A major poll of 3,001 British voters examines why Britain's economy has underperformed, what the public believes is holding ...

Commenting on the inflation figures, Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “The jump in UK inflation from 3.0% to 3.3% in March is bad news but not quite as bad as ...

Commenting on the Advertising Standards Authority banning its first food advertisements under the government’s new advertising restrictions, the IEA’s Head of Lifestyle Economics, Dr Christopher ...

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack. Official figures recently published by HMRC indicate a huge rise in illicit tobacco sales in the UK since 2021. The ...

April 19 2016, Free Republic, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in the way he thinks April 19 2016, Reason, Bernie’s right – America should be more like Sweden; But not in ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire 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 ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

“English votes for English laws” no solution to problems caused by devolution · The UK’s current devolution settlement leads to unrepresentative government and has an inbuilt bias towards “big ...

When this blog was launched over a decade ago, most of my articles were rebuttals of the latest nonsense I had read in the Guardian or the Independent. Those publications are, unfortunately, still ...

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 ...