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Should the UK’s borders be more open or more closed?

For years, we liberals have decried our opponents on the left and right for their hopelessly facile solutions to deeply complex problems. Witness Labour deciding higher education could be solved by “just making it free”; the Conservatives claiming…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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What should the UK’s international aid primarily aim to achieve?

In the Tory manifesto for the 2015 election, the party pledged to keep the Department for International Development independent within Whitehall. Yet just five years on, Prime Minister Johnson has…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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Does the UK’s green belt policy need reform in light of the mounting housing crisis?

With eight million Britons living in housing that is overcrowded, unaffordable or otherwise unsuitable, more and more adults lodging with their parents, and as increasing numbers finding themselves homeless, it seems the housing crisis has in recent years…

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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Are the economic ideas of Karl Marx important today?

If Teen Vogue is a good indicator of the state of popular discourse (and of course it is), Marx is back. As the liberal capitalist order is facing its biggest crisis since 1945, people are returning to its most famous critic. This is deeply unfortunate.

By Editor, 4 months3 weeks ago
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Is there an overwhelming argument for or against protectionism, or is the reality of the situation a lot more ambiguous?

This society takes the view that traditional tariff protection, overall, is bad for societal welfare; but given the growing prevalence of non-tariff measures, the welfare effects of neo-protectionism are a lot more ambiguous.

By Editor, 5 months3 weeks ago
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How should economic policy be shaped by climate concerns?

The climate is changing, and we are causing it. That is not up for debate. It is clear that global, manmade and accelerating climate change is…

By Editor, 5 months3 weeks ago
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