Blog Britain's Quangos Uncovered: A car crash in management We at the TPA have just launched a new project, Britain’s Quangos Uncovered, which seeks to pull back the curtain on the quango state - the nexus of regulators, committees, advisory bodies, service providers and much more which sit largely out of ministerial control and yet command huge budgets
Blog Your council tax is rising - sign our petition now Well they’ve landed. Across the country, council tax bills have landed in inboxes and postboxes with the new, increased rates that taxpayers will have to pay. In some places, such as Wandsworth, residents are getting off lightly. In others, such as Falkirk, bills have shot up by 15 plus
Blog Not all rich lists are the same We at the TaxPayers’ Alliance are known for many things. Our grassroots campaigns work, or our laser focus on government waste, just to name a couple. But we’re surely best known for our regular rich lists, where we compile lists of the highest-paid employees of various public sector bodies,
Blog The Family Farm Tax: A Medieval Idea for a Modern Government Following on from my colleague Callum McGoldrick’s stunning success at the York Dialectic Union last year, when he and Christopher Snowdon of the IEA won a debate on the smoking ban, I decided to try my luck with the good students of York University. Fortunately I was given a
Blog Government waste is back in the headlines For twenty years the TPA has been by no means a lone voice in the battle against government waste. But we’ve often felt like a lonely voice. We’ve often been told that waste is inevitable in a large bureaucracy and that there’s nothing anyone can do about
Blog Five policies for Kemi Badenoch During the Conservative leadership campaign Kemi Badenoch conspicuously avoided proposing any major policies that she would pursue were she to win. Instead she would govern from “first principles.” It was a successful strategy: she won, after all. There was also genuine wisdom in the approach. She was not running to
