Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit

Committee Room 2, House of Lords Committee Room 8, Houses of Parliament, Bridge Street, London

In light of the recent regulation and reform from the Financial Conduct Authority on short-term credit supply, ResPublica is launching its latest report: Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit. The report will explore the current state of a market that has undergone dramatic change within the last year, and […]

4000%: Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?

4000% Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest? #PaydayLoansFringe. On the back of a recent Office for Fair Trading report on payday loans; the short-term lending sector has come under increased criticism and scrutiny. With some payday lenders exhibiting unethical and unscrupulous behaviour, it is unclear whether payday lending functions as a crucial form […]

Conference on Post-liberal Politics – Concepts and Ideas

University of Kent

The focus will be on critique of economic and social liberalism and on alternatives that are fundamentally different from the anti-liberal ideas of populists on the extreme right such as UKIP or the Front National. David Lammy MP will be the keynote speaker on Monday 23rd June 2014 at 10.30am, followed by a panel discussion. […]

Markets, Monopolies, and Freedom

Globe at hay Globe at hay, Newport Street, Hay on Wye, Hereford

Phillip Blond, Aditya Chakrabortty, Adam Cohen. Isabel Hilton hosts. The internet has democratised knowledge and transformed our lives. But from Microsoft to Apple, its monopolies are rampant. Should we break up the corporations and, like China, build firewalls to keep them out? Would this nurture local economies or threaten the prosperity of the West? Guardian […]

ResPublica’s 5th Anniversary

Institute of Directors 116 Pall Mall, United Kingdom

On Tuesday 16th December 2014, ResPublica celebrated its 5th Anniversary with a Question Time style debate and party at the Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall. Our Director, Phillip Blond, delivered a keynote address to an audience of parliamentarians, political commentators, academics and friends, with the reception overwhelmingly positive. The speech set the tone for the rest of […]