FREER Director Rebecca Lowe spoke at two Battle of Ideas events: ‘Can Libertarianism Set us Free?‘ and ‘Brexit and the Law: Is Britain really taking control‘. She also spoke at an event at the Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics, on the role think tanks play in society.
Rebecca Lowe’s latest ConservativeHome column looks at the costs of nationalisation, arguing that such policies not only lead to X-inefficiency and other well-known detrimental economic consequences, but that the way in which they often equate to centralised, bureaucratic control is a problem in itself.
Watch this event, in which Liz Truss is interviewed by FREER’s Director Rebecca Lowe, discussing anything and everything to do with political ideas and events, from the size of the state to the importance of political heroes, via Brexit and personal experiences.
FREER Director Rebecca Lowe and FREER Co-Chair Lee Rowley both spoke at events at the Big Tent Festival.
Our third paper, ‘Housing Addressed’, by Simon Clarke, came out in September. Here are some FREER op-eds, which marked the occasion of the paper’s launch.
Rebecca Lowe’s latest ConservativeHome column focuses on housing and the need for green-belt reform. In September, FREER will be publishing a paper on this topic, written by Simon Clarke.
FREER’s Director discussed issues including populism and the sharing economy.
The day after we launched Eddie Hughes’ FREER paper on blockchain, it was also published in the JBBA.
Our third paper, Unlocking Blockchain, by Eddie Hughes, came out in July. Here are some related op-eds, which marked the occasion of the paper’s launch.
On the day Eddie Hughes’ paper was published, City A.M. featured this report, setting out the paper’s proposals.
Two of FREER Director Rebecca Lowe’s latest ConservativeHome columns
FREER’s Director discussed freedom-related issues ranging from the sharing economy to the increasing tax burden to minimum alcohol pricing.
Our second paper, ‘Freeish Speech: Speaking out in the twenty-first century’, by Kemi Badenoch, came out in May. Here are five op-eds on free speech, which marked the occasion of the paper’s launch, written by Kemi, Luke, Lee, and Rebecca.
The section’s very first comment piece was by FREER Co-Chair Lee Rowley, and has been followed by op-eds by his Co-Chair Luke Graham and FREER Director Rebecca Lowe.
In his Times column, Matt Ridley describes how, in the opening FREER paper, our Co-Chairs Luke Graham and Lee Rowley, ‘not only lambast fossilised socialism and anachronistic unions, but also boardrooms “peppered with oligarchical and monopolist cartels”’.
FREER Director Rebecca Lowe writes for ConservativeHome
