Centre For Policy Studies

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A recent CPL survey noted that just 40 per cent of women who have children return to work afterwards – even though 90 per cent express an intention to do so. Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images
What is a ‘fair’ personal tax rate?

How much of your earnings do you think it fair to give up to the exchequer in tax? Forty per cent? Ten per cent? While our obvious inclination would b(...)

April 10th, 1998: taoiseach Bertie Ahern, British prime minister Tony Blair and US senator George Mitchell shaking hands after they signed the historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Dan Chung/AFP/Getty Images
Fintan O’Toole: The Belfast Agreement is flawed, but not in the way Brexiteers think

Daniel Hannan is one of the most intelligent and sophisticated of the Brexiteers. The longtime Tory member of the European Parliament has a double fir(...)

Corey Lewandowski: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager comes from a group called Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers. Photograph: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Frightened by Donald Trump? Wait until you see his staff

Yes, Donald Trump’s politics are incoherent. But those who surround him know just what they want, and his lack of clarity enhances their power. To und(...)

Michael Gove: wrote a pamphlet in 2000 called ‘Northern Ireland: the Price of Peace’ in which he compared the Belfast Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s and the condoning of the desires of paedophiles. Photograph: Jeff Overs/EPA
Michael Gove a ‘fanatic’ who would damage peace process
  • UK
  • July 5, 2016, 01:00

Michael Gove is a “fanatic” who would be “dangerous” for the Northern Irish peace process and North-South relations if he won the Conservative Party l(...)

A sign saying welcome to Northern Ireland is seen on the border of Armagh and Louth in Ireland. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Fintan O’Toole: Belfast agreement is a threat to the new English nationalism

Northern Ireland is not Lincolnshire or Somerset. It is a distinct and unique political entity, recognised as such by an international treaty register(...)

Students at Brunel University in London, UK, protested at Katie Hopkins being invited to a debate on campus. Photograph: Ian West/PA Wire
Students stage walk-out as Katie Hopkins begins speech

A speech by controversial commentator Katie Hopkins during a university debate in London prompted a mass walkout in protest at her invitation(...)

Delivering the Centre for Policy Studies annual Margaret Thatcher lecture last night, London mayor Boris Johnson defended the importance of “boardroom greed” and “some measure of inequality” as a spur to economic activity. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Wire
Johnson equality remarks labelled ‘unpleasant elitism’
  • UK
  • November 28, 2013, 11:35

Deputy British prime minister Nick Clegg has accused London mayor Boris Johnson of an “unpleasant elitism” after the latter warned that some people l(...)