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⚡ "Net zero was popular in every test of opinion in the early 2000s. People thought it was a good idea because they didn't realise what it was going to cost." Daniel Hannan explains how public support for Net Zero collapsed once people understood the true economic price.
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⚡ "Net zero was popular in every test of opinion in the early 2000s. People thought it was a good idea because they didn't realise what it was going to cost." Daniel Hannan explains how public support for Net Zero collapsed once people understood the true economic price.

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20,165 views • 8 days ago

🇺🇸 "We would be 51st. We would be poorer than Mississippi. That's an astonishing statistic." Tom Harwood on GB News reacting to our new research on British attitudes to economic growth. 👇
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🇺🇸 "We would be 51st. We would be poorer than Mississippi. That's an astonishing statistic." Tom Harwood on GB News reacting to our new research on British attitudes to economic growth. 👇

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151,934 views • 3 months ago

💡 "Prices are in the hands of God. This is a thousand years before Adam Smith." @danieljhannan on why Muhammad — a merchant by trade — understood price caps better than most modern politicians do. 👇
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💡 "Prices are in the hands of God. This is a thousand years before Adam Smith." @danieljhannan on why Muhammad — a merchant by trade — understood price caps better than most modern politicians do. 👇

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67,337 views • 1 month ago

📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits." Valentin Boboc warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.
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📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits." Valentin Boboc warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.

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65,011 views • 2 months ago

📈 The economist Joseph Schumpeter is best known for popularizing the term 'creative destruction' to describe the entrepreneurial process where new innovations arise and cause the old way of doing things to disappear. Find out more ⤵️
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📈 The economist Joseph Schumpeter is best known for popularizing the term 'creative destruction' to describe the entrepreneurial process where new innovations arise and cause the old way of doing things to disappear. Find out more ⤵️

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578,740 views • 2 years ago

🚧 "Unless Parliament is prepared to repeal the thicket of rules that prevent us getting anything built in this country, we are not going to grow economically." Daniel Hannan on BBC Politics Live on why planning and eco-regulation are strangling UK growth.
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🚧 "Unless Parliament is prepared to repeal the thicket of rules that prevent us getting anything built in this country, we are not going to grow economically." Daniel Hannan on BBC Politics Live on why planning and eco-regulation are strangling UK growth.

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21,578 views • 28 days ago

💰 "Wealth taxes, that's the thing about them. They have been tried many, many times before. This is not a remotely new idea." Kristian Niemietz on Piers Morgan Uncensored tells Gary Stevenson that half of Western Europe had wealth taxes until the early 1990s, and abolished them for good reason.
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💰 "Wealth taxes, that's the thing about them. They have been tried many, many times before. This is not a remotely new idea." Kristian Niemietz on Piers Morgan Uncensored tells Gary Stevenson that half of Western Europe had wealth taxes until the early 1990s, and abolished them for good reason.

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19,967 views • 27 days ago

🧵 "Private ownership. State control. It's not socialism. Nobody's seizing anything. But it's not capitalism either. Because the price mechanism is being systematically overridden." Christopher Snowdon on Britain's capitalist command economy. 👇
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🧵 "Private ownership. State control. It's not socialism. Nobody's seizing anything. But it's not capitalism either. Because the price mechanism is being systematically overridden." Christopher Snowdon on Britain's capitalist command economy. 👇

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48,313 views • 2 months ago

Is Another Winter Of Discontent Coming? ⚖️ "We're going to enter into a period of time, maybe akin to the 1970s, where there are huge numbers of strikes."
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Is Another Winter Of Discontent Coming? ⚖️ "We're going to enter into a period of time, maybe akin to the 1970s, where there are huge numbers of strikes."

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154,501 views • 1 year ago

🗣️ "Women were relatively freer in the Roman world than they were in ancient Athens, and I think that allowed economic prosperity to reach a higher level." Economist Dr Victoria Bateman links Rome's lasting success to the freedom of its women.
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🗣️ "Women were relatively freer in the Roman world than they were in ancient Athens, and I think that allowed economic prosperity to reach a higher level." Economist Dr Victoria Bateman links Rome's lasting success to the freedom of its women.

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21,584 views • 1 month ago

🗣️ "It is the mistake every other civilisation has made in history, which is it becomes successful and then it rolls back women's rights." Economist Dr Victoria Bateman on why women's economic freedom underpins lasting prosperity.
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🗣️ "It is the mistake every other civilisation has made in history, which is it becomes successful and then it rolls back women's rights." Economist Dr Victoria Bateman on why women's economic freedom underpins lasting prosperity.

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21,263 views • 1 month ago

🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇
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🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇

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113,574 views • 1 year ago

📉 "Most Brits think we're as rich as the Americans. We're probably 40% poorer." The UK hasn't had a properly growing economy in 20 years. David Frost on Britain's blind spot.
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📉 "Most Brits think we're as rich as the Americans. We're probably 40% poorer." The UK hasn't had a properly growing economy in 20 years. David Frost on Britain's blind spot.

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38,248 views • 3 months ago

⚖️ Roy Hattersley once said: "I would rather have 5% more equality than 10% more prosperity." @danieljhannan on the wisdom of the late former Labour deputy leader. 👇
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⚖️ Roy Hattersley once said: "I would rather have 5% more equality than 10% more prosperity." @danieljhannan on the wisdom of the late former Labour deputy leader. 👇

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15,302 views • 1 month ago

🌭 New offer! Donate £25 or more by the end of the month to get: - A signed copy of Christopher Snowdon's new book 'Inside the Sausage Factory' - 2 IEA publications - A limited edition "I fund the IEA" badge Learn more 👇️
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🌭 New offer! Donate £25 or more by the end of the month to get: - A signed copy of Christopher Snowdon's new book 'Inside the Sausage Factory' - 2 IEA publications - A limited edition "I fund the IEA" badge Learn more 👇️

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14,977 views • 1 month ago

🌐 "Until the 18th century, there were no circumstances where you could randomly insult people and not expect to suffer the consequences personally, either reputationally or indeed physically." Rory Sutherland on social media anonymity. 👇
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🌐 "Until the 18th century, there were no circumstances where you could randomly insult people and not expect to suffer the consequences personally, either reputationally or indeed physically." Rory Sutherland on social media anonymity. 👇

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27,750 views • 4 months ago

🚢 "The response to public anger about people being illegally smuggled into the country is not to stop that. It's to tighten up even more on the legal immigration, which actually is a net benefit." Tom Clougherty on the Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 Show. 👇
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🚢 "The response to public anger about people being illegally smuggled into the country is not to stop that. It's to tighten up even more on the legal immigration, which actually is a net benefit." Tom Clougherty on the Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 Show. 👇

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71,865 views • 1 year ago

📉 "In Manchester and in Glasgow, 20% of people on out of work benefits are of working age. This rises to 25% in Birmingham. These are calamities." Fraser Nelson at the IEA's 'Is Britain Broken?' event on the welfare crisis London isn't talking about.
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📉 "In Manchester and in Glasgow, 20% of people on out of work benefits are of working age. This rises to 25% in Birmingham. These are calamities." Fraser Nelson at the IEA's 'Is Britain Broken?' event on the welfare crisis London isn't talking about.

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15,910 views • 2 months ago

🏥 Is the NHS a historical mistake? Our Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz explains what British healthcare could look like had it not been brought into state ownership👇
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🏥 Is the NHS a historical mistake? Our Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz explains what British healthcare could look like had it not been brought into state ownership👇

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138,598 views • 3 years ago

🏠 "I would love it if Grand Designs ceased to exist as a programme because the process of building your own home was so easy that it made very bad television." Rory Sutherland on Britain's housing crisis. 👇
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🏠 "I would love it if Grand Designs ceased to exist as a programme because the process of building your own home was so easy that it made very bad television." Rory Sutherland on Britain's housing crisis. 👇

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25,081 views • 4 months ago