The Unfinished Business of Devolution: answering the West Lothian Question

In a lecture to be given to the Centre for Policy Studies on 23 April, Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP:- argued that growing public disenchantment with the Union risks getting worse; - explained the logic behind his proposal for an English Grand Committee, an institution composed of English MPs that would have the last word on all purely English legislation; - rebuted criticisms of the proposal for a new convention whereby the House of Commons as a whole should not overturn the decisions of the English Grand Committee.

HOW TO BEAT THE SCARGILLS OF ISLAM

In the 2008 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture Charles Moore draws a parallel between Islamist extremists today and Trade Union militants of the 1970s and 1980s

Politics, Policy and the Internet

Troops to Teachers

Why do we feel so broke?

This paper was heralded as "electoral dynamite" by Iain Martin, Daily Telegraph, on his blog. Patrick O'Flynn commented in The Daily Express "If Mr Cameron were to heed yesterday’s CPS study and wean himself off the fashionable theories of fellow Old Etonians like Goldsmith and James, he would take a massive step forward along the road to Downing Street". 'Post a new topic' below to give us your views.

Who do they think we are?

This pamphlet uncovered for the first time how the Government is developing a strategy for the "transformation" and "personalisation" of public services, based on sharing information across government departments and government agencies, to provide the state with a ‘joined-up’ picture of every individual. In the words of Fraser Nelson, Political Editor of The Spectator, "The wider implications of Mr Brown’s ‘personalisation’ programme are powerfully outlined in a pamphlet by Jill Kirby of the Centre for Policy Studies.