Overton window
Think tank: Adam Smith Institute
Author(s): Dr Madsen Pirie
September 20, 2024
This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at policies for a better Britain.
This discussion paper stands back from the constant cut-and-thrust and point-scoring of everyday politics to examine what a better Britain might look like if some of its problems were addressed by imaginative and long-term solutions.
As it shows, this need not to be a purely theoretical exercise because there are examples of countries in which some of the problems that Britain faces have been solved by the introduction of alternative and successful policies.
The ideas in this paper are currently outside the Overton Window of what is considered reasonable to propose for implementation. Yet they could do much to repair Britain’s broken institutions and practices.
