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Twenty Years to Settlement
How the UK’s new asylum system is reshaping the the futures of refugees

Tinsae Seifu
Nov 293 min read


The Red Scare: How Labour can use geopolitics to win the next election
Leveraging National Security to Reshape Britain’s Political Landscape

Harrison Mole
Nov 264 min read


Keir Starmer: Schrödinger’s PM
Schrödinger’s Prime Minister is running out of nine lives; ambiguity carried him into power, but it certainly will not carry him through to the next general election.Â

Thiana Ojetola-Attah
Nov 244 min read


Elite Accountability and Institutional Reform in the UK
Connections to Epstein- a paved way to better reform

Reem Javed Baloch
Nov 213 min read


COP30 at a Crossroads
What the absence of the superpowers means for the future of global climate cooperation

Lucy Campbell
Nov 173 min read


Labour's Pension Bill is not fit for purpose
It is said higher risk equates to higher return, perhaps now is high time for Britain to go risk-on

Hubert Kucharski
Nov 94 min read


Why the Central Bank Should Not Exist: An Austrian Critique of State-Engineered Monetary Disorder
Money was transformed from a spontaneous market medium into an instrument of imperial finance T hat note in your wallet or the digital balance on your screen represents not real wealth, but an artificial, encrypted promise - a fungible financial claim sustaining modern economies through illusion. Once termed chirographis pecuniarium by the Scholastics, (a mere written acknowledgment of debt), this promise has been perpetuated and expanded over time by central and commercia

Elias Sanchez
Nov 84 min read


Sunak was right to pitch mandatory conscription
Gen Z are a generation hungry for responsibility, perhaps this is something the state should provideÂ

Hubert Kucharski
Oct 124 min read


Candy Keynes sweep the LPI Pub Quiz
Could you have done better?Â

Leeds Policy Institute
Oct 43 min read


A new Bank of England paper series just dropped
Looks like the Bernanke review is starting to work

Hubert Kucharski
Jun 224 min read


The Myth of Rational Economic Design
Bolivia’s Slide into Hydrocarbon and Dollar Crisis

Elias Sanchez
Jun 216 min read


Navigating the String of Pearls
Strategies for India to Secure the Indian Ocean

Ethan Templeton
Mar 1611 min read


The Illusion of Growth
Why Government Spending Won't Fix the UK Economy

Elias Sanchez
Mar 95 min read


Angola's Oil Dependency
How Green Alternatives Can Help Diversify the Economy

Ethan Templeton
Feb 1414 min read


Let’s put debt issuance into the hands of technocrats
An independent institution could optimise fiscal policy for the benefit of both the taxpayer and the investor

Hubert Kucharski
Feb 147 min read


Tickled Pink for Trump
The incessant cries of ‘America First’ can only be associated with one man: President Donald Trump

Natasha Dawson
Jan 304 min read


Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Concerned (but Powerless), an empowered and informed member of society

Nicolas Padula Pinho
Jan 92 min read


Gains mean Growth
 If we learn to embrace new, robust economics, we’ll finally stop playing catch-up and remember what it feels like to lead by example

Diogo Ferreira
Jan 35 min read


Is 6% too much?
Why a private school tax does too little to address educational imbalances

Tom Buckley
Jan 26 min read


Leeds 2030: The Journey to Net Zero
From electric cars to LED streetlights, can Leeds meet its ambitious Net Zero target in time?

Alicia Coope
Dec 2, 20243 min read


Leeds Pint Index (October Edition)
We kickstart the index with a popular pub of choice: The Library (Image source: Tripadvisor)

Joseph Clark
Nov 30, 20243 min read


Beyond the Nuclear Deal
Trump, the JCPOA, and Nuclear Deterrence

Orestis Prionidis
Nov 26, 20244 min read


Rebuilding State Education: Will Labour Deliver?
A Tax on Aspiration: How Labour’s Budget Misses the Mark on Real Educational Reform

Kavya Sharma
Nov 22, 20245 min read


Democrats lost, Labour is next.
Unless Sir Keir can bring his party into the 21st century.

Nicolas Padula Pinho
Nov 13, 20244 min read


The Clash Over Capitalism
How Different Theories Shape Our World

Elias Sanchez
Nov 2, 20244 min read


Let's replace bond vigilantes with proper debt policing
Rachel Reeves must avoid becoming a target for opportunistic investors

Hubert Kucharski
Oct 30, 20245 min read


Introducing, the Leeds Pint Index
Every slice of bread is a sad story of wheat that never became beer

Hubert Kucharski
Sep 19, 20243 min read


Twenty Years to Settlement
How the UK’s new asylum system is reshaping the the futures of refugees

Tinsae Seifu
Nov 293 min read
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