Centre for Policy Studies Articles

Each year the centre-left thinktank Policy Network holds its Progressive Governance conference, which habitually attracts prime ministers, former leaders and senior social democratic politicians from across the globe. There has never been a rightwing counterpart but...

I used to think of it as the 'two o’clock awkward': that moment in conversation, usually late at night, often in the junior common room or someone’s room, when I realised that the person I was talking to had a completely different background and outlook to mine. Boris...

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...

UK tanks are parking themselves firmly on the European Union’s lawn – thinktanks, that is. From IPPR’s new report Staying In: A reform plan for Britain and Europe, to the Centre for Policy Studies’ The UK and the EU: Cutting the knot, each anticipates a point in the...