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March 2010
Vol. 10, No. 7
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Opinion
Britain needs a shake-up of its housing industry
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Being just Brown won't solve the housing headache
Alan Evans on why 240,000 new houses a year won't make them more affordable
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£87,500
If house prices had matched inflation, that would be the cost of an average house,not £197,500 says Tim Leunig
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A carrot for the council
Paul Cheshire sets out why Impact Fees would be fair and rewarding on selling land for development
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The new mental health law still does not do justice to the patient
Despite hard-fought for improvements, it is far from perfect, argues Andy Bell
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Westminster Watch
Jon Davis reviews Gordon Brown's first weeks as prime minister
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Putting it in writing will not make peace with Sir Humphrey
Christopher Hood and Martin Lodge on the flaws in the idea of a code between ministers and mandarins
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Plus ça change
Enlargement has not changed the way Europe works, says Helen Wallace. After three years with 25 members, it is still business as usual.
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Too good to last?
50 years after Macmillan famously asked this question, Martin Weale asks it again for Brown's Britain
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A bigger North, a bigger Britain
Editor Roderick Crawford talks to the director of Northern Way
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A computer battle that could change the world as you know it
Alexander Howard on the changes that would flow if Microsoft played ball on a level playing field
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With good sense, the North Sea is still a major asset for Britain
Malcolm Webb of Oil & Gas UK on the changes needed to make the best of what is still there
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The man handed the heat but not yet the light
With yet another energy review, Gordon MacKerron on what needs to be done now
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Statutes of Liberties?
Andrew Blick on Blair's legislative inheritance, and the 2,600 laws Brown inherits from the past ten years
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Inside Gordon Brown's head
Simon Lee on the making of the man who is now prime minister
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Planning is about much more now than just saying Yes, or No
Mark Tewdwr-Jones on what planning really means in today's world