The Cobden Centre has been established to promote social progress through honest money, free trade and peace. We endorse Richard Cobden's view that:
3 September 10 by Sean Corrigan
There is an old military dictum (seemingly more honoured in the breach than the observance, these days) that one should never reinforce failure – the financial equivalent of which is that one should try to avoid throwing ‘good money after bad’.
Sadly, our modern cognoscenti – the policy advisors and pundits who hog the headlines – [...]
by Steven Baker MP
Since The Cobden Centre was established by original founder Toby Baxendale, Dr Tim Evans, Dr Anthony J Evans and the author, we have assembled ten plans for financial reform which promise to deliver honest money and social progress. These are set out below.
There is today little doubt that the economic, fiscal and monetary crisis through [...]
2 September 10 by Toby Baxendale
Today’s Telegraph reports
The International Monetary Fund has warned that long-term fiscal reforms will be required among advanced economies as it projected the UK’s gross debt to gross domestic product would rise to 90.6pc in 2015.
According to Mark Littlewood at the IEA,
These statistics underscore the need to drastically cut government spending. Only through cutting spending and [...]
1 September 10 by Mark Goodhand
In his latest article for CentreRight, Steve Baker explains his vision of the Big Society:
The change we need is a change within. From a belief that human relationships should be based on class conflict and mutual plunder mediated by the State, to a reliance on mutual cooperation. From the view that business is somehow bad, [...]
by Toby Baxendale
In the UK there is little if any discussion on Intellectual Property Law. I think it would be correct to say that it would be considered a backwater of law for specialists and of not much relevance to the better running of society . Tucker and Kinsella, in this article, put IP law at the [...]
