For years, the Adam Smith Institute has called out how terrible the Online Safety Act is.

With Peter Kyle’s shortsighted comments today, we think the government should go further and REPEAL the Online Safety Act.

Why? It does not keep children safe, and endangers everyone online.

👇 In 2022, @MacdonaldJam published “Shut the Back Door”, highlighting how the OSA would affect encryption.

It is the right of every Brit to communicate securely and privately - indeed, it is protected under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.

Since then, we have seen Apple withdraw its encrypted storage offer to the UK, following a Home Office notice.

buff.ly/o7AOoTu

Welcome to the Adam Smith Institute’s Ayn Rand Lecture.

Introduction by @eamonnbutler and lecture by @LukeJohnsonRCP.

‘Entrepreneurs – the Last Best Hope’

Follow here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @eamonnbutler: @LukeJohnsonRCP personifies Ayn Rand’s self-made entrepreneur, founding successful businesses and creating jobs, driving a dynamic economy.

🚨 NEW SUBMISSION

📜 Reforming the framework for better regulation consultation

🤔 How improving regulatory measurement and cataloguing, and better educating lawmakers, could boost Britain’s economy

🖊️ By Robin Ellison and @matthewlesh

⬇️⬇️⬇️

adamsmith.org/research/submi… 💷 Regulations cost the UK economy £100 billion each year.

❗️ Regulations impose substantial costs on groups and individuals. They discourage entrants and punish smaller business, undermining innovation, job creation and productivity.

🚨💷 | Draining Our Pockets: How the global tax cartel could cost Britons billions

📉 £7 billion annual tax revenue could be lost because of global minimum tax

🚢Super-deduction and free ports are incompatible

🖊️ By @julian_morris of @ReasonFdn & @LawEconCenter

⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🤝 One-hundred and thirty six jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, have agreed to negotiate two new treaties that would, if implemented, change how many large companies are taxed in the name of ‘tax fairness’.

🥇The Golden Opportunity: How Britain can embrace tobacco harm reduction

🗣️ @JTI_global, @NNAlliance, @MOates_ & @cjsnowdon, and @DanielPryorr @DanielPryorr says this is a pivotal year in tobacco harm reduction with the UK leaving the European Union and the COP9 — the UN’s tobacco control conference.

The UK can play a role in a more liberal and effective tobacco harm reduction approach.

adamsmith.org/research/the-g…

🌳 We’re off — Barriers to a Green Revolution at #CPC21

😊 Free market environmentalism can lead to a greener, freer, more prosperous society for future generations.

🗣 @AusHCUK, @CSkidmoreUK, @Con_Tomlinson, and @DrRussTucker @AusHCUK says the key first barrier to a green revolution is the over reliance on state-based solutions — it depends on countless individual investors and billions of consumers.

Governments can set a framework but state-based, top-down solutions won’t make a difference.

And we're off!

Join us on Facebook live here: facebook.com/AdamSmithInsti…

https://twitter.com/ASI/status/1323646181696806914

We're kicking off with @s8mb who recently wrote 'Covid: The War We Never Fought' which you can read here: sambowman.substack.com/p/covid-the-wa…

Our webinar 'Doing our Duty by Hong Kong' is LIVE now on Zoom and Facebook!

Tune in now to hear from
@joshuawongcf, @lisanandy, @TomTugendhat, and @benedictrogers

We'll be live tweeting along here!

facebook.com/watch/?v=30161… First up is @benedictrogers, Chair and Co-founder of Hong Kong Watch giving us a rundown of the new security law being imposed by China.

It could become illegal to host this webinar as China cracks down on free speech and criticism of the regime.

NEW REPORT: 'Testing Times: The urgent need to decentralise COVID-19 diagnostic testing in the United Kingdom' by our @matthewlesh makes the case for allowing private, university and charity labs to test for COVID-19. ➡️ The UK has fallen to the bottom quarter of OECD countries for COVID-19 diagnostic testing, per capita .

➡️South Korea has tested four times as many people as the UK, Germany almost three times and the United States now almost twice as many, per capita.

The Factory Tax is holding back Britain, @CatoInstitute’s @MrRBourne writes in the @Telegraph referencing the @ASI’s latest paper.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/… “A key cause of [low productivity] is surely Britain’s stingy capital allowances for these investments within its corporation tax code – a phenomenon the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) has called a “factory tax”.”

Mike Pompeo is absolutely right to say it's "disgusting" that UK political leaders refuse to drop their support for Venezuelan dictator Maduro. The @ASI has been a vocal opponent of his socialist regime, most recently through our Venezuela campaign. Some highlights follow... “In a centrally planned economy, the ruling class can use goods in short supply as a political instrument of control.” Short supplies are a feature, not a bug of the socialist system.
adamsmith.org/blog/venezuela…