David Green

David Green is Director of Civitas.

Articles

Government

What the government can do for the steel industry

Steel production has been ‘paused’ at one of Britain’s major steel plants at Redcar in the North East and the factory may well close completely. Nor is it an isolated case. The future of the whole steel industry in the UK is under severe threat. The Government should provide assistance, not only to save the […]

Politics

Is the liberal left any different from Corbyn’s class war?

Jeremy Corbyn is ahead in the Labour leadership contest for two reasons. First, he is voicing opinions shared by the majority of Labour members, not just the thousands of entryists who joined in the last few weeks. And second, because he represents a break with the scheming and manipulation of the Blair era, when politics […]

Enterprise

How to make capitalists think long-term

Sajid Javid, the UK government’s Business Secretary, recently said that the free market was the greatest force ever created for lifting people out of poverty. But, he continued, “we must not lose sight of the fact that it’s an artificial creation. It is not the natural order of things. We have to consciously choose to […]