No one could have left our Policy Exchange event today with Jonathan Haidt and David Goodhart without thinking that something drastic needs to be done about smartphone use amongst children. Entirely compelling. Worth watching the presentation below

A very persuasive framing of the immigration - productivity debate from Tom Jones

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James Vitali The Times and The Sunday Times The Church of England AlmshouseAssociation Not YIMBY, but YIGBY: Yes In God's Backyard

Frank Field was respected by both his political allies & his opponents. He did his homework, researched the evidence before deploying it with passionate advocacy for the causes he championed. Courteous in debate and personally kind,his death is a great loss to public life. #RIP

In my column for The Times and The Sunday Times this week, I write about how the The Church of England can recover a sense of social mission by building a new generation of beautiful, charitable almshouses. Highly recommend looking at the great work AlmshouseAssociation are doing

thetimes.co.uk/article/how-th…

This was a seriously good speech from Kemi Badenoch on the relationship between cultural values and the economy, and the place of regulation in the growth conundrum

“You are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am not accusing you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”

Enough is enough. It is time for a major change.

On Saturday 27th April — the next anti-Israel march — we are asking you,…

Delighted to see this absolutely majestic Twitter account up and active again

Whether your politics are left, right, up or down, surely everyone can agree this is great news. And it'll do more for the sport's standing and to widen participation than cancelling historical fixtures at Lords, introducing a new cricket regulator or hiring more EDI officers

It’s time to end the rip off that is Leasehold Britain.

The Leasehold Reform Bill is a crucial step forward.

But it’s also a golden opportunity to set an end date for any new leasehold home, end forfeiture and the fleecehold scam.

Me in The Telegraph👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Britain cannot have economic security without economic growth, writes James Vitali
thecritic.co.uk/the-problem-wi…

'Securonomics' is premised on risk aversion and a big, active state. But it won't make households more self-sufficient or resilient, and it won't promote the enterprise needed to solve our growth dilemma. I've offered a critique in The Critic.

Yep this is a cracking article. Although I worry that the tide of ideas - increased risk-aversion, reduced emphasis on household resilience and self-sufficiency - may well be conducive to a party promising 'securonomics'

LEASEHOLD REFORM CAMPAIGN UPDATE:

A message to Rishi Sunak - strengthen the Bill so that every one of us can have control of our home, our money and our lives 💪🏾

Homeownership should mean freedom: it’s a British thing!! 🇬🇧

In the last two decades Britain has experienced many moments of crisis.

Yet none of these has precipitated a transformation in Britain’s economic fortunes.

Policy Exchange's James Vitali for ConservativeHome.

conservativehome.com/2024/03/28/jam…

Thanks Henry Hill William Atkinson and the ConservativeHome team for running this. We spend much time on theory and forecasts when it comes to economic growth. But we ought to spend a great deal more time thinking about history

📰 'History shows that economic transformation is an inherently political enterprise'

- Our Head of Political Economy, James Vitali, writes in ConservativeHome about his latest paper - Economic Transformation: Lessons From History