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Hungary's new government should fix what's broken and keep what works (opens the original)
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Adam Bartha is Director of EPICENTER, a Brussels-based network of independent free-market think tanks, and a former Director of International Outreach at the IEA.Almost half a year ago, Hungarians voted overwhelmingly to oust Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years of uninterrupted rule. Many, myself included, thought this an unlikely outcome, given how steeply Fidesz had tilted the playing field over the years.Yet Orbán himself had correctly predicted it at CPAC in 2022. A govern
Forget left and right – British politics is now reality versus fantasy (opens the original)
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Harry Richer is the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, under Chairman the Rt Hon Steve Baker. He has worked as a senior aide in the British Parliament and has also co-written multiple publications on Austrian School economics, including the 2024 Springer book The Age of Debt Bubbles. As the Labour conference closes and Tory activists begin to descend on Birmingham, you would be forgiven for thinking that right versus left is still the major dividing line in British politics. It is not. A ne
The TV licence fee is doomed (opens the original)
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Daniel Hannan is the Director-General of the IEA.Imagine that there was a tax on every book sold, the revenue from which went to a single favoured publisher. Or suppose that anyone who owned a device capable of playing music – a phone, a tablet, smart speakers, a car stereo – was obliged to pay £174.50 a year to a single state-sponsored record label.The BBC Charter is set to expire at the end of 2027. To retain a tax on TV sets in the age of Disney+, YouTube, Spotify and TikTok would be beyond l
More control, higher costs: A response to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech (opens the original)
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham addressed the Labour Party Conference today, in his first party conference speech as Labour leader. While he claimed he sought to set out a vision for giving people more control over the economy, it isn't clear where the money will come from.Valentin Boboc, Senior Economist at the IEA, responds: Read more
Rail nationalisation is a rebrand, not a revolution (opens the original)
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Len Shackleton is an Editorial and Research Fellow at the IEA and Professor of Economics at the University of Buckingham.Joshua Bowden is a Research Scholar at the Vinson Centre and is working with Len on an IEA paper on railways.At the weekend Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced that Avanti’s West Coast rail services will be nationalised from March next year.Like rather too many recent government announcements, this is just a restatement of something th
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