NIESR Articles

Two thinktanks found themselves in the ring squaring off this summer. In the blue corner was the Centre for Policy Studies. And in the red – well, in this particular fight, the Social Market Foundation would certainly contest the colour assigned to it. The reason for...

Why let the facts get in the way of a good bit of immigrant-bashing? David Cameron certainly hasn't. His speech today either highlights a woeful lack of knowledge of existing government policy or is deliberately misleading in order to whip up hysteria and community...

Often we hear that being ‘ideological’ is a bad thing, but it seems some have taken this idea too far. A rumour is currently doing the rounds of a rogue subeditor working on a new pamphlet for a well-known thinktank who took it upon himself to replace the word...

The biggest jamboree on the annual thinktank circuit, the Prospect Thinktank Awards, hit town again last month. Wonks old and new gathered to hear the judgements of a panel comprising, among others, a former adviser to Kofi Annan, Prospect editor Bronwen Maddox, and...