🚭 'As the consequences of this ridiculous anti-smoking ruse unravel in the years ahead, the generational tobacco ban and the war on vapers will be a fitting epitaph to this authoritarian and unprincipled government.'

✍️ Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 | spiked

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✍️ 'I am not describing a utopia. I am merely describing a country where people are allowed to put bricks on top of other bricks...'

🏘️ Kristian Niemietz writes about his latest research on the housing crisis for CapX ⤵️

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RIP Frank Field (1942–2024), by IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton

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This is a great article by @k_niemietz for CapX discussing 6 key insights we can glean from the Austrian School of Economics and how this relates to our current economies #austrianeconomics #economics #economy

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🪙 ✍️ 'In each case where data exist to assess the situation, public demand for [Central Bank Digital Currencies] has been extremely low. Experience suggests that CBDCs do not offer tangible benefits which existing alternatives cannot already deliver.'

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🚨📈📉 NEW GRAPH: Inflation has risen by 80% since 2000.

Highly regulated products like 💡 electricity, 🏘️ housing, and 👪 childcare have had rapid price increases.

But... competitive and innovative markets like 📷cameras,👗 clothing, 🐻 toys have had price decreases.

🗣️ 'They're promising...to get rid of bureaucracy but what they're actually doing is creating massive new bureaucracies!'

📺 Matthew Lesh highlights some of the apparent contradictions in Labour's plan to renationalise the railways with Emily Carver and Tom Harwood on GB News 👇

✍️ “The independence of the BoE is crucial in managing inflation effectively by adjusting interest rates based on economic data, rather than yielding to political pressures.”

Director of the The Institute of International Monetary Research Damian Pudner in City A.M. 👇

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Wonks and Industry Leaders Blast Labour’s Railway Nationalisation Pledge order-order.com/2024/04/25/won…

'When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'

📰 Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 for The Critic on public health activists' responses to the recent spike in alcohol related deaths 👇

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🗣️ 'It is a mistake to characterise Denmark as a socialist or even democratic socialist country. Denmark is one of the most economically free countries on the planet.'

🇩🇰 Watch the latest Realities of Socialism documentary to learn more ⤵️

🍻 Our Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 and TV presenter Adrian Chiles have often been on opposite sides of the debate surrounding government intervention in individuals' lifestyle choices.

🤝 Have they found some common ground?

📺 Watch the latest Swift Half to find out 👇

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'As part of this eclecticism, Frank Field was one of the relatively few Labour MPs willing to visit Lord North Street and talk with IEA people. He also occasionally contributed to our publications'
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I wish more businesses had this mentality. Instead of lobbying the government for favours and getting ahead by restricting their competition, businesses should always ask the government to get out of the way and let competition thrive!

🗣️ 'They're promising...to get rid of bureaucracy but what they're actually doing is creating massive new bureaucracies!'

📺 Matthew Lesh highlights some of the apparent contradictions in Labour's plan to renationalise the railways with Emily Carver and Tom Harwood on GB News 👇

🛤️ 'Can Labour do better? The danger is that full renationalisation will increase union leverage. Whatever Louise Haigh and her team have dreamed up, it must tackle this problem...'

✍️ Len Shackleton

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🗣️ 'The Labour proposals are lacking in detail, and seem to involve contradictions. There is the usual arbitrary state planning ‘targets’ with no understanding of how markets work.'

🛤️ Our Len Shackleton on Labour's plans for rail renationalisation 👇

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✍️ 'In...‘Smoking and the Public Purse’, Christopher Snowdon and Mark Tovey...estimated that ‘the UK government saved a net total of £9.8 billion from the 96,045 premature deaths attributable to smoking in 2015’.'

🚭 IEA research featured in The Times and The Sunday Times ⤵️

thetimes.co.uk/article/we-can…

🗣️ '[A] bureaucratic, top-down, centrally controlled system is going to be a complete disaster.'

🚉 Our Matthew Lesh on the Labour Party's latest plan to renationalise the railways 👇

📺 Mike Graham 🇬🇧 | TalkTV

Every Twitter user knows that Britain is run from Tufton Street.
I've written the Origin Story of how it all began.
#TuftonBegins
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