Sales of legal tobacco have more than halved since 2021, according to an analysis of new data from HMRC. Tobacco sales figures published by the government on Friday revealed that the number of ...

Six years on, the EU Green Deal has left electricity prices twice as high as in the US and China, hydrogen investment collapsed, and European industrial competitiveness in decline Eight structural ...

Since 2019, there have been many attempts to put a cost on achieving net zero by 2050, with wildly different results. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has repeatedly revised down its estimates for ...

Kevin served the IEA with distinction for twenty-three years on the Board of Managing Trustees. He was a dedicated and committed trustee whose scrutiny of our affairs was both fearless and ...

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Nanny State Index, a league table of the best and worst places to be a consumer of food, alcohol, soft drinks and nicotine. As always, there is little in the way of ...

Given the high economic costs of fraud, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 aims to address the well-known deficiencies of the common law’s approach to corporate criminal liability ...

Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial and domestic gas and electricity prices. The latest data for 2023 was ...

Karl Marx’s influence among intellectual elites underwent a massive rebound in recent years. In 2018, mainstream publications including the New York Times, the Economist, and the Financial Times ran ...

Until very recently, Britain’s National Health Service used to be beyond argument. The reverence for the health service often precluded anything resembling a rational discussion around it: the social ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

In the run-up to the 2016 EU Referendum, people at the IEA and in its wider orbit were having lively arguments about the question of whether Brexit would help or hinder the cause of free-market ...

Will Hutton, the well-known political commentator and former Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, has gone into print in The Guardian to attack Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech in which she rightly ...